Lessons – Page 14 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

June 28, 202214Comments

Subdividing Beats Workout

In my experience, only a small handful of folks will actually try and do today's lesson more than twice... Which is unfortunate, because I would argue it's the skill that most

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June 21, 202215Comments

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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June 14, 202212Comments

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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June 7, 202217Comments

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,

June 2, 202214Comments

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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May 31, 20228Comments

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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May 24, 202215Comments

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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May 17, 202214Comments

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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May 10, 202224Comments

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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May 3, 20225Comments

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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