While SRV probably does this as much or more than most... It's not something that is unique to him, it's just easy to recognize in his playing. Really, most blues players use

Chances are that you've run across "box 1" for playing the pentatonic/blues scale... But you might not have realized that most of your favorite blues riffs from your favorite blues songs

As I often like to say, the pentatonic/blues scale is never wrong, when you solo over a blues... But you can be right-er, at certain times ;) In this video, you'll see

I often get requests for more "major blues" licks, and this is a good one from Clapton's performance of "Crossroads," with Cream... In particular, this shows using the somewhat standard Box

I've been learning and transcribing an enormous amount of Cream Era Clapton over the last several months for a new course... And one of the reasons I chose these licks for

First off... yes, there's a cool lick in today's video and I hope you'll learn in... BUT... Don't stop there! Most of the "meat" of this video comes after you learn the