August 23, 201913Comments

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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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...

by Griff

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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...

by Griff

Practicing

March 26, 20194Comments

Keeping Notes Ringing

Many beginning and lower-intermediate guitar players I work with have a tendency to cut all the notes short… and it’s just one of those things the separates the...

by Griff

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March 14, 201925Comments

You Might Be Practicing Your Boxes Wrong

I’m not sure how else to put it… but most of us learn the “boxes” of the pentatonic/blues scale in a way that… isn’t actually all that...

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February 15, 20198Comments

“Ask Griff” Feb 15, 2019

We talked about a whole bunch of fun things yesterday on a live version of “Ask Griff…” So grab a cup of coffee and listen to some thoughts on practicing...

February 5, 20197Comments

Keep Control Of The Ringing

This is a problem I see a lot of advanced beginners and intermediate players have… where things get all “ringy” because they aren’t controlling the...

by Griff

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February 4, 20193Comments

The Janitor Story

My dad was a computer scientist, and he would ask me sometimes to be “his janitor…” Of course, I was puzzled, so I asked what that meant… Imagine, if...

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