March 27, 202029Comments

“Ask Griff” Live on 3-27-2020

So… some Q&A, a little bourbon, and some noodling happened on the Facebooks and the YouTubes yesterday afternoon. In case you missed it, here you go! By the way,...

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March 16, 202023Comments

The Roles Your Blues Notes Play…

A lot of people might call these the “intervals” of the blues scale, but these aren’t intervals to me because they don’t involve a distance between 2...

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January 12, 202012Comments

What Makes Blues…. Blues?

Ever wonder what it is about music that makes it sound, “bluesy?” Obviously some music is a 12 bar blues form, so it’s technically, “a blues,”...

January 2, 202017Comments

5 Tips For Better Blues Solos

Over the last few years I’ve found a few things that most every blues player can do to up their game just a bit. None of these require using something new, just...

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December 26, 201956Comments

The Guitar In 2020…

It’s hard to believe that the end of another decade is drawing near… I’ve been playing and teaching guitar for more than 3 of those decades, and I’ve...

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October 31, 201917Comments

The Pentatonic Scale On One String…

Why on Earth would you want to play your entire Pentatonic Scale on one string? Lots of reasons… so let’s talk about it…

August 23, 201914Comments

Blues-i-fying The Major Pentatonic Sound And 7th Arpeggios

I’ve had a lot of questions lately about the Major Pentatonic Scale and using for different chords… The thing is… you can use the Major Pentatonic scale a...

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August 5, 201925Comments

[Live] BB King/House Pattern Shapes

The “BB Box” (I call it the House Pattern) tends to cause a lot of confusion, and today I thought we could look into it and why you want to use it… ...

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July 29, 201931Comments

Little Chords Made Me Stand Out…

I will admit that I am guilty of not sharing the successes of my students nearly enough… But just the other day I got a message on the forum from Joe Abrams, about how...

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June 8, 201924Comments

Now Look What You’ve Done…

“Now Look What You’ve Done…” That was the subject of an email I received from a BGU member in Virginia… I was intrigued… Inside the email...

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