This is probably time to grab some coffee and sit back and watch, first...
I've been working on a difficult solo, and I wanted to show you step-by-step how I take
I'm a huge Angus Young fan... he was, arguably, my first guitar hero way back in the late 1970s...
And what I've come to learn as I've gotten more into the
Well, maybe we're doing Funk Guitar Unleashed today ;)
Seriously, though, this strumming idea comes up in both funky styles of blues, and straight up, James Brown style funk guitar...
It even
One of the cool things about using simple chord progressions that aren't in the blues format, is that you can chase each major chord with a major pentatonic scale...
And for
This is one of those little mindshifts that was so helpful to me as a young man growing up learning to solo through chord changes...
We usually learn the pentatonic and
I talk about counting ALL the time... and I'm well aware of that...
However, I'll be the first to admit that there are some times, particularly in a slow blues, where
While this isn't the first time I've talked about this type of format for an acoustic blues...
This is the first time I've approached it using basically just one or two
One of the more difficult, but important techniques you need to play with a heavy picking hand in the style of SRV or KWS is the ability to play "behind"
Not so much a lesson in technique or style as tone chasing...
As much as I love a cranked up vintage or modern amplifier, that's not often practical and I've come
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