The Stairway Changes
While this is obviously not a lesson on how to play Stairway To Heaven, or the solo from that tune...
It was the first song where I learned this set of
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Dropping In The Dorian Scale
I often get asked about using modes with the blues, and there aren't a lot of simple, easy answers...
Except this one.
The Dorian Mode (the 2nd mode of the major scale)
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ZZ Top’s “I Thank You”
I know I don't typically do "song lessons," but this one is a great demonstration of a simple idea in the solo that gets repeated with great effect.
And, of course,
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My Process For Learning Difficult Licks
This is probably time to grab some coffee and sit back and watch, first...
I've been working on a difficult solo, and I wanted to show you step-by-step how I take
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Angus Young’s “Turn” Around The Blue Note
I'm a huge Angus Young fan... he was, arguably, my first guitar hero way back in the late 1970s...
And what I've come to learn as I've gotten more into the
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The Funky Blues Strum Pattern You Might Be Playing Wrong
Well, maybe we're doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today ;)
Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar...
It even
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Fills For The Noodle Machine
One of the cool things about using simple chord progressions that aren't in the blues format, is that you can chase each major chord with a major pentatonic scale...
And for
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Pentatonics From A 5th String Root
This is one of those little mindshifts that was so helpful to me as a young man growing up learning to solo through chord changes...
We usually learn the pentatonic and
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Count The Uncountable
I talk about counting ALL the time... and I'm well aware of that...
However, I'll be the first to admit that there are some times, particularly in a slow blues, where
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Let’s Build A Blues
While this isn't the first time I've talked about this type of format for an acoustic blues...
This is the first time I've approached it using basically just one or two
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