July 9, 20207Comments

Your Guitar Playing Speed Test

Playing Faster Has NOTHING To Do With Your Finger Speed! Now, you can probably guess what makes the most difference (if you know me, you know where I’m going here.) But...

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Practicing

June 5, 202025Comments

Soloing Levels For Knowing What To Practice

I get this all the time… “I want to improve my blues soloing…” Yeah, I get that, but exactly *how* do you intend to do that? And, what is...

by Griff

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Practicing

May 29, 202011Comments

END Your Scales On Beat 1

Most folks, when practicing scales, start playing on beat 1 and play through the scale… And while that makes sense academically, it often doesn’t make sense...

March 16, 202023Comments

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...

January 14, 202018Comments

Pick, Fingers, Claw… Yes!

Albert King always used his fingers to pluck the strings… Stevie Ray Vaughan pretty much always used a pick… Robben Ford uses sort of a “claw” with...

by Griff

Practicing

January 13, 202018Comments

How To Use A Metronome

Too many people think that using the metronome is the first thing you should reach for when you practice… And NOTHING could be further from the truth. Sure, there are a...

January 2, 202017Comments

5 Tips For Better Blues Solos

Over the last few years I’ve found a few things that most every blues player can do to up their game just a bit. None of these require using something new, just...

by Griff

Practicing

September 23, 201918Comments

How To Ingrain Moves

It’s hard to describe exactly what this video is, but it came from someone asking me if I make all these different changes without thinking about it… and the...

August 23, 201914Comments

Blues-i-fying The Major Pentatonic Sound And 7th Arpeggios

I’ve had a lot of questions lately about the Major Pentatonic Scale and using for different chords… The thing is… you can use the Major Pentatonic scale a...

by Griff

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Practicing

June 25, 201911Comments

Adding Percussion To Simple Strumming

I believe that strumming is probably the most overlooked skill on the guitar… So in this short video (really short… like, under 4 minutes short) I’ll show...

by Griff

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