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
I was asked a great question about transcribing music and, effectively, why is it something I need to do?
Additionally, I would say the question was whether it was something you
You hear a lot of talk about boxes and scales and patterns when it comes to the guitar...
But do you know why you learn scales and what you're going to
This is one of my personal favorite Christmas songs by one of my biggest heroes, BB King...
It's called, "Back Door Santa," and obviously it's his typical tongue-in-cheek style.
When you listen
The one email I answer more than any other has to do with choosing an electric guitar for playing the blues...
To go along with that, I'm often asked why I