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...

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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…

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April 5, 20229Comments

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...

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...

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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April 27, 201961Comments

Holy Smokes We Did It – Thank You!!!!

Wow! What a day yesterday… in case you didn’t hear, our new album, I’ll Drink To That, hit #1 on the iTunes blues charts!!! Thank you so very much for all...

by Griff

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October 9, 201844Comments

Another Mixing Major And Minor Blues Sounds Post…

This is something we talk about a lot, but it seems to be a common sticking point for people and it’s always worth repeating. Plus, I usually come at it from a slightly...

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August 31, 20181Comments

What To Expect In A Challenge

If you’ve not done a BGULabs Challenge before, you might be wondering what to expect. Here’s a little video showing you how it will (most likely) work:

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December 23, 201750Comments

Merry Christmas Baby – Slow Blues

So the other day I was Christmas shopping with my wife and this song came on the background music. What caught my ear was how it’s a lesson straight out of Blues Guitar...

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