Counting Vs. Feeling
I make a big deal about counting... a REALLY big deal.
But this is the blues we're talking about around here and I get a good number of "You're supposed to
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BGU Live 2014 Recap
Last weekend was my annual Blues Guitar Unleashed Live event for 2014. And now that it is all wrapped up, I have a bunch of great photos and a video
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What Makes An Intermediate Guitar Player?
Someone asked me the other day, "what makes a guitar player an intermediate guitar player?"
And what he really meant was, "what skills do I need to know to make it
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Fastest (Blues) Man On Record…
Buddy Guy seems to be a household name for us blues players, but most people don't know how Buddy got his start and what you can learn from that.
I've been
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Classic Blues Songs: “Hide Away”
Freddie King turned a lot of heads when he recorded "Hide Away." As he tells the story, it's a song influenced by a bunch of other song pieces; and like
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I’ll Give It An 85 – It’s Got A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It…
Remember Dick Clark and the old American Bandstand?
There was the "Rate-A-Record" part where they would play a new song, and ask a couple of the dancers to rate the song
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Mastery Is Overrated…
You might have heard many people say that it takes 10,000 hours of "work" to master a skill...
I suppose there is likely a lot of truth to that if you
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Blues And CAGED
There seems to be a huge amount of confusion when it comes to the CAGED philosophy... both what it is, and what it isn't.
Since this is "Blues Guitar Unleashed" I'm
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A Simple Roman Numeral Theory Lesson
Here at Blues Guitar Unleashed, I don't like to throw big amounts of chord theory your way. I will say that understanding theory can help your playing, but we've been
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History Of Acoustic Blues Guitar
There are a lot of reasons why I decided to create my course entitled, "Acoustic Blues Guitar Unleashed," but one of the main reasons was to celebrate the history of
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