Griff – Page 55 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

March 29, 2015107Comments

How To Memorize Music…

If there's one thing that all musicians struggle with, no matter your age or experience level, it's memorizing music and being able to keep it in your memory for longer

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Lessons

March 25, 201597Comments

Playing In Position

In this lesson we'll look at a short piece of music I put together from a classical study that is specifically designed to work on your ability to play in

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Lessons

March 18, 201584Comments

You Shook Me Style Lick

So I was checking out some Joe Bonamassa doing "You Shook Me" live at Red Rocks and noticed this signature sound that I've heard in so many other places... Download the

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Practicing

March 15, 201566Comments

3 Steps To Better Guitar Practice…

I was reading an interesting article about a study that was done on practicing habits at the University of Texas. You can read the article in its entirety if you want,

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discussion

Practicing

March 13, 201591Comments

Stupid Rules…

Rules get a bad rap... rules are great and provide much more freedom than they take away (usually.) Let's say I'm sitting down to practice and I want to just jam

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Lessons

March 11, 201566Comments

Fun With 4 Against 3

Like many of you I'm a big ZZ Top fan... and when I heard Billy Gibbons do "Thunderbird" (a song with an interesting and sordid history) on "Live At Daryl's

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Lessons

March 5, 2015171Comments

The House Pattern

This is one of my favorite patterns for blues soloing. It's basically the blues scale... but with some extra goodness. A lot of people call it the BB King box or

March 3, 2015207Comments

How To Play Catch

uh.... just watch the video on this one :) Try it... let me know how it goes below. Doesn't have to be now you can always come back later...

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discussion

March 2, 201584Comments

Turn Off Your Metronome

So... my post from the other day was obviously a big one... With over 400 comments at last count, it's going to take a while for me to get through them

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discussion

February 28, 2015486Comments

Road Maps…

I've been thinking a lot lately about what you don't know you don't know... you know? I mean, it's one thing to learn a skill or a set of skills... but

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