This video is a little more of a project for you, if you're a beginning guitar player. In order to be able to play with other people (really, in order to

I know that I'm usually the first person to say, "Don't bend with your first finger, that just doesn't feel good and it's hard." That hasn't really changed, but there *are*

I often hear from students how they want to learn to embellish chords, so that's what we'll talk about in this video... I was inspired by "The Weight," by The Band,

For blues and blues/rock soloing, many times we take a simple approach of just using the minor pentatonic/blues scale for the whole thing... And while that works over 12 bar blues

There's just no cool, fancy word I can come up with for today's "move" and accompanying lick... So I guess I'll just have to show you how it goes :)

Of all the "tricks" that guitar players use to create more interesting lines, this one probably took me the longest to figure out... And you can call them lines or licks,

In talking about more Modern Blues Soloing, and getting away from the standard Pentatonic and Blues scales for a bit, one of the things we have to discuss is the