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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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May 7, 201919Comments

Getting Your Hands Back

For whatever reason, we all have to spend some time away from our guitars… It’s never fun, but it happens. Maybe it’s an injury, maybe it’s work...

by Griff

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May 6, 20198Comments

Playing “Acoustic” On Electric

These last few days we’ve been talking a lot about “acoustic” blues, in the sense that it’s blues you play by yourself – and not with a...

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April 8, 201910Comments

How To Find All 5 Boxes – No Matter What Key

Certainly in people that I work with every day, wrapping your head around “the boxes” and being able to truly find all of the possible places to play your...

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