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February 24, 20248Comments

THP 2 House Pattern Lick 1

Let's learn a fun new lick from one of my favorite patterns, the "House Pattern." This is in celebration of my new course with the same name - The House Pattern

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Lessons

February 23, 20245Comments

THP-1-The-House-Pattern

What I affectionately call, "The House Pattern," is one of my favorite blues soloing patterns, but it's one that is so often misunderstood... It's not any *one* particular scale, or sound,

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January 11, 20244Comments

One Riff Does Not A Song Make

Today I'm tackling that age old issue... "Griff, why don't you teach us 'real' songs?" I do, all the time, you just have to know how songs really work, so watch this: In

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January 5, 20244Comments

Building Blues Shuffle Rhythms Lesson

As much as I love playing leads and solos, your meat and potatoes of blues playing is going to be playing rhythm... Whether you want to call it strumming or comping

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Lessons

November 21, 202320Comments

“How Long” Acoustic Blues Song Lesson

I do an acoustic blues duo with a buddy of mine once or twice a month on Sundays at a place down in Grapevine... One day Joey pulled this out and

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November 12, 202318Comments

My New Screamer

It's gear day here at BGU, and I want to tell you about a new pedal I've been using in place of my tried-and-true tube screamer... Now then, here's the cool

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Lessons

October 6, 20232Comments

Turning Blues Chords Into Blues Solos

In this video I'll show you how I take the same basic chords that I always use and turn them into soloing tools. This is a style of soloing I really

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Blues Artists

Lessons

September 14, 20237Comments

5 Blues Sounds From 1 Position

BB King was the MASTER at getting a ton of great sounds out of 1 small area of the fretboard... And, personally, I think you'd be better for learning how to

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Lessons

September 8, 20234Comments

3 Cool Moves Turned Into A Lick

Many times licks are far too complex... It's easy to miss the small moves that get repeated in dozens, or maybe hundreds of licks over your lifetime as a guitarist. So today

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September 6, 20233Comments

Pentatonic Vs. Blues Scale

I often call the blues scale and the pentatonic scale "functionally equivalent," but what does that mean, exactly? Today I'll tell you about it and why you might want to keep

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