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January 5, 20243Comments

Building Blues Shuffle Rhythms Lesson

As much as I love playing leads and solos, your meat and potatoes of blues playing is going to be playing rhythm... Whether you want to call it strumming or comping

by Griff

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November 12, 202316Comments

My New Screamer

It's gear day here at BGU, and I want to tell you about a new pedal I've been using in place of my tried-and-true tube screamer... Now then, here's the cool

by Griff

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September 6, 20233Comments

Pentatonic Vs. Blues Scale

I often call the blues scale and the pentatonic scale "functionally equivalent," but what does that mean, exactly? Today I'll tell you about it and why you might want to keep

by Griff

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August 30, 202316Comments

How Do You Solo If You Can’t Find The Key?

When we solo over a blues progression, we have a "key" that we use... t's always a "blues in E" or a "blues in A," and we go with that, even

by Griff

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September 20, 20225Comments

Better Double Time Strumming

Clearly, today isn't a blues guitar lesson... but strumming is, arguably, one of the most important things you can do on a guitar... So you need to be able to do

by Griff

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September 20, 20221Comments

September 2022 Practice Generator Update

There have been some changes made to the Practice Generator due to the list of courses and lessons getting way too long to work with...

by Griff

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April 5, 202211Comments

Adding In ALL The Blue Notes

We often talk about the blues scale, but we don't often talk about the "blue" note and how we get it... With a little knowledge, you can actually add not just

by Griff

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December 8, 202013Comments

Rockin Around The Christmas Tree Lick

Sure... you could just watch the video, and play the lick... But you'd be missing out on something SO cool that you can use over so much non-blues stuff (but if

by Griff

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February 26, 202053Comments

NGD

EDIT: This was back in February, 2020. I've added the video from Norm's with Angela at the bottom. So... I hope you'll indulge me a little because I had one of

by Griff

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July 16, 201910Comments

Changing Your Licks To Better Fit Chords

Let's take a simple blues lick (that you oughta know anyway) and see how to modify the last note to fit the new chords when the chord changes... Sort of a

by Griff

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