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July 29, 2016100Comments

Little Red Rooster and Open G Tuning

While "Little Red Rooster" certainly isn't the only song out there in open G tuning... it's one that you'll have a hard time not playing once you start :) And there

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June 21, 201655Comments

Blues Phrasing – How You End Your Licks Matters

We spend a fair amount of time talking about how (or, more accurately, when) you start blues licks... but we don't often talk about how they end. And you might also

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June 16, 201683Comments

Where To Make The Bends In Blues Boxes

It seems there is a lot of confusion about bends... which is a shame because they are THE coolest thing about playing guitar. Bends allow us to do on a guitar

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June 14, 201662Comments

Further On Up The Road Intro

This tune seems to be really popular as I have received a LOT of questions about what Joe is playing for the intro of this tune... Instead of answering all the

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May 31, 201656Comments

Stairstepping Down

This is an idea I call "stairstep" pentatonics... and I stole it from Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Johnson, and some other modern blues players. I'll provide the tab under the

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May 25, 201690Comments

Roots And Octaves – Another Way To Look At Your Fretboard

Your guitar fretboard is a strange and wonderous place... and the longer I play the more I realize that each of us eventually develops our own mental model of it

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May 16, 201634Comments

Slow Blues Rhythmic Solo Ideas…

One of the first things most of my students go for when playing over a slow blues is more speed, and that doesn't usually work out as intended. The thing with

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May 11, 201636Comments

Mannish Boy

Today's video is another along the classic lines of the Muddy Waters classic, "Mannish Boy." As we've seen in other videos, there are a lot of options and a lot of

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March 30, 201639Comments

Hoochie Coochie Man

This lesson is partly about how to play Hoochie Coochie Man, but more than that it's about how to pay attention to the various ways people often play the same

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March 28, 201642Comments

How To Do Pinch Harmonics

Call 'em what you want, these are just fun. If you've ever wanted to sound more like Billy Gibbons and less like Muddy Waters then you'll want to do this

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