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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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...
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