Many of my students come to me only after having spent many years trying to learn how to play the blues...
And often, even after they've learned some scales and licks
Just like the title says, knowing these things when I was learning guitar would have saved me SO much time!
Luckily, you don't have to wait, you can start putting these
Not so much a lesson as a discussion about famous "pop" songs that you may not know are actually "blues" songs...
There are a large number of songs I would consider
It seems all I've heard about lately from other guitar teachers and students alike are triads...
But, what are triads?
Do you need them?
Will they help you in some way?
Why do you
How can you "play what you feel," if you can't feel much of anything yet?
Admittedly, I let the comments section get to me today and I'm sorry for the lack
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
We talk a lot about boxes and patterns of the pentatonic and blues scales on guitar...
But what is the actual difference between the major and the minor pentatonic and blues
A lot of people see the "boxes" of the pentatonic scale as modes...
But they really aren't used that way and would not be considered modes.
So here's a quick discussion of
Here's how to blues guitar solo in one video...
Call it the 30,000 foot view :)
Obviously, there can be much more to it, but the point is that, fundamentally, it's really
When you solo over a blues there are a lot of root notes to think about...
There's the "root" of the key...
There's the root of the I chord, the root of