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March 28, 201920Comments

Fun With BOTH Blue Notes

Today's little blues soloing lesson is another situation sort of like the 4 note solo... If you can find your root note, you can put not only the 3rd, and 5th

by Griff

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March 24, 201927Comments

Finding Major Pentatonics From A Shape Barre Chords

If you know the Major Pentatonic/Blues Scale, chances are you only know it from a 6th string root, which is fine until you need one from a 5th string root... Here

by Griff

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March 20, 201931Comments

3 BB King Licks That Don’t Use The House Pattern

When most folks talk about how BB King solos, they tend to refer to what I call the "house" pattern, sometimes also known as the "BB Box." It's basically a grouping

by Griff

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March 11, 201919Comments

When It All Goes South :(

I make no bones about the fact that, for me, playing in a group, with a band, at a jam, or even just with a friend or two - is

by Griff

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March 6, 201940Comments

Buddy Guy Approach To Slow Blues Soloing

Buddy Guy is one of the absolute last living blues legends (if not the last) and I've been listening to some of his music more often lately... I wanted to do

by Griff

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March 4, 201938Comments

Adding Notes To Pentatonic Scales Without Thinking

I know this might seem odd... but I like to add notes to my pentatonic and blues scale boxes without having to really think too much... So, to that end, there

by Griff

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February 22, 201941Comments

Mike Bloomfield IV to I Lick

This is a lick I heard Mike Bloomfield do and I just love it... it's a move that I find myself doing, but I didn't realize just where I'd stolen

by Griff

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February 19, 201923Comments

Don’t Poke The Root Note…

This is one of those things that I see many of my less experienced blues soloists do... In fact, I see it in my son's jazz band at school, it's

by Griff

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February 12, 201920Comments

More Little Chords & Inversions

A lot folks get stuck playing the same-old-same-old chords and patterns when it comes to blues rhythm playing... but it doesn't have to be that way. When you realize that there

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February 11, 201940Comments

Clapton’s Secret Move?

There is a particular move that I see Eric Clapton do that seems to be a bit unique to his style... And since so many of you have been asking for

by Griff

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