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...
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Playing Behind The Muting Fingers
One of the more difficult, but important techniques you need to play with a heavy picking hand in the style of SRV or KWS is the ability to play “behind” your...
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Moving House Pattern To Box 3 To Pentatonic 6 Sound
This video is one of my favorite “moves” around and through some of my favorite blues soloing scales and sounds. If you’ve ever heard me talk about what I...
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The 4 7th Chord Shapes You Should Know
Today is more for the beginners… The blues typically revolves around 7th chords… not major 7th, and no minor 7th, but dominant 7th chords. Those chords can come in...
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Sliding Through The Pentatonic Scales With The Ring Finger
It’s fairly common using the “boxes” of the pentatonic or blues scale to get stuck in one pattern (which is often box 1 or maybe 2)… But if you can get...
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Moving Between Sounds With The House Pattern
This is one of those lessons that is more of a “move” and not a specific “lick”… Many blues players know that one of your options when blues...
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Otis Rush – All Your Love I Miss Lovin’
I can’t even say how often I find out that one of my favorite songs was written by Otis Rush… And every time I hear him play it always twists my ear and makes me...
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Memphis – Lonnie Mack
Got a request for some info on this tune… I’d not heard it, but it was a fun one so I made a video about it for you, I hope you dig it.
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Double Stops a la “Keep Your Hands To Yourself”
I was in a private lesson and this tune came up as my student was asking about how these double stops work… Turns out, with just one shape, and some fun moving around,...
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Using Both Pentatonics Over “Bluesy” Chord Changes
There are a lot of different tunes that, while “bluesy,” aren’t really blues songs (they aren’t a 12 bar blues.) This particular progression, which is...
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