Lessons – Page 15 – Blues Guitar Unleashed Blog

April 19, 202021Comments

The Funky Tightrope Rhythm

As much as I love funky rhythms, this is one of my all time favorites... In blues, we don't get to use these funky rhythms as often, and therefore they often

by Griff

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April 17, 202021Comments

A Turnaround And More – Blues-i-fy The 3rd

This is a simple idea that is easy to play, but is harmonically pretty advanced - Win/Win! If you look at the chord shapes within your 12 bar blues, and you

by Griff

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April 15, 202027Comments

“The” Turnaround Lick…

This is that one old school 12 bar blues turnaround that everyone and their brother/sister/uncle/cousin plays... And you should too :) It works for a shuffle or a slow blues and it's

by Griff

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April 13, 202034Comments

The I IV I7 Rhythm Move

For blues comping (playing blues rhythm guitar) this is a move that gets used on all kinds of tunes... Slow blues, shuffle blues, straight feel songs... really doesn't matter, this will

by Griff

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March 30, 202030Comments

Hide Away – Freddie King

While this is a fun little melody to learn and a cool tune... I have an ulterior motive for showing it to you :) We often talk about "playing on the porch"

by Griff

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March 26, 202027Comments

A Beginning Blues “Project” For You

This video is a little more of a project for you, if you're a beginning guitar player. In order to be able to play with other people (really, in order to

by Griff

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March 25, 202014Comments

First Finger Bends!

I know that I'm usually the first person to say, "Don't bend with your first finger, that just doesn't feel good and it's hard." That hasn't really changed, but there *are*

by Griff

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March 23, 202039Comments

C Chord Variations And Fills

I often hear from students how they want to learn to embellish chords, so that's what we'll talk about in this video... I was inspired by "The Weight," by The Band,

by Griff

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March 18, 202012Comments

Playing “Follow The Chord” A Little Over Blues/Rock Changes

For blues and blues/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic/blues scale for the whole thing... And while that works over 12 bar blues

March 16, 202031Comments

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 notes... Instead, I think

by Griff

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