One of the subtle things about playing guitar has to do with articulation, or how you attack a note.
Sure, you can pick it, but there are a lot of other
I've been spending a lot of time lately working with people on improvising in live clinics and private lessons... and I hear a lot of the same thing.
I call it
In this lesson we'll look at a short piece of music I put together from a classical study that is specifically designed to work on your ability to play in
So I was checking out some Joe Bonamassa doing "You Shook Me" live at Red Rocks and noticed this signature sound that I've heard in so many other places...
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Like many of you I'm a big ZZ Top fan... and when I heard Billy Gibbons do "Thunderbird" (a song with an interesting and sordid history) on "Live At Daryl's
This is one of my favorite patterns for blues soloing. It's basically the blues scale... but with some extra goodness.
A lot of people call it the BB King box or