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April 8, 201563Comments

How To Sound Like You Know What You’re Doing…

A couple of weeks back I was talking about Road Maps and I asked for your feedback on what I call the "movies you see in your head" when you

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Practicing

April 7, 2015131Comments

5 Most Common Beginner Mistakes

So recently a new guitar player was commenting on the member forum that he was really struggling... And after asking some questions and getting some more info, a couple of things

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Lessons

April 6, 201561Comments

Double Stop I to IV lick

Today I have a quick little trick for you to liven up your shuffle blues solos. This is an idea that will take you seamlessly from the I to the IV

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Practicing

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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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

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