The Big 43…
Yup... I'm older today. I've hit the big 4-3... kind of underwhelming. It's not 40, it's not 50, it's not even 45.
I think I'll skip it this year :)
But hey,
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Narrow And Deep Always Wins
If there's one thing my experience has taught me over the years, it's that going deep into one concept or idea will always make you sound better than trying to
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The “Old Guard”
As you may already know, I've been playing the blues around the Southern California area for well over 20 years now... sometimes as many as 180 shows a year.
Nowadays there
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Learn To Show Off A Little
Do you feel like you're showing off a little bit when you take a solo? If not, you might want to re-think that a little and here's why...
If you look
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My Favorite SRV Style V Chord Lick
This is just one of my favorite SRV style licks (and I've learned many of them over the years...)
It has a specific usage - only over the V chord at
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The Soloing Cycle
Well, yesterday's post certainly "struck a chord" it seemed :)
And that was the intent... to get you thinking a little and maybe wondering where to go from here... and I'm
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Grandma Rides a Bicycle
30 days has September...
April, June, and no wonder...
All the rest eat peanut butter...
Except Grandma, she rides a bicycle!
Like my literary genius?!
This was a poem I learned as a kid and,
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The Blues Mambo/Rumba Thing…
This is a feel I really enjoy playing and I hope you like it too.
If you've been through Blues Guitar Unleashed you might recognize the riff as sort of "Tore
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Adding 2 and 6 to the blues scale
This is just for fun :)
When you add a couple of notes to the good old box 1 blues scale pattern you get a pattern that lays really comfortably under
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