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June 18, 201556Comments

Ask Me No Questions – SRV Rake Lick

Fellow BGU'er and my good friend Lloyd (Paparaptor on the forum) asked me about this particular technique that SRV uses in many places, but it's really obvious on this tune

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Lessons

June 16, 201590Comments

Clapton Sweet Home Chicago

There's a version of Clapton doing Sweet Home Chicago that I've always really dug from his Robert Johnson Session back in 2004... Unfortunately I can't post it because the copyright

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discussion

June 7, 2015131Comments

Rhythm Vs Lead

Q: You know the difference between the rhythm guitar and the lead guitar? A: Where they stand on the stage... (cue laugh track) I know, bad joke, but it makes a good

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Lessons

June 1, 201567Comments

Hendrix Style Bend Licks

I love this sound and I've always associated it with Jimi Hendrix as I believe he does it in "All Along The Watchtower." Of course, as I was listening further I

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Lessons

May 24, 201578Comments

Slow Blues Trick – In And Out Of Time

Recently I spent a lot of time listening to Red House by Jimi Hendrix, as well as slow blues by Johnny Winter, SRV, and Gary Moore... And I found a really

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Lessons

May 19, 201587Comments

How To Attack A Note

One of the subtle things about playing guitar has to do with articulation, or how you attack a note. Sure, you can pick it, but there are a lot of other

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Blues Artists

May 15, 2015196Comments

R.I.P. BB King

May 14, 2015 marks the end of an era... BB King passed away quietly at his Las Vegas home, according to his daughter Patty. He had been in hospice for a

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discussion

May 10, 2015125Comments

Your Guitar DNA…

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s... mainstream guitar players were really good. On the blues end we had guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore, while

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Lessons

May 3, 201549Comments

Adding Tweedlies To Simple Licks

I've been spending a lot of time lately working with people on improvising in live clinics and private lessons... and I hear a lot of the same thing. I call it

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Lessons

May 1, 201591Comments

Shift Your Licks To Box 4

We so often get hung up on patterns (like boxes 1 and 2) that are based around 1st or 6th string roots... But there is SO much great music to be

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