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April 10, 202039Comments

How Do You Get That Tone?

Above all else, the one question I hear time and time again is... "How do you get that tone?" Surprisingly, my video studio rig is very simple, and very inexpensive... probably not

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Lessons

March 30, 202032Comments

Hide Away – Freddie King

While this is a fun little melody to learn and a cool tune... I have an ulterior motive for showing it to you :) We often talk about "playing on the porch"

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discussion

March 27, 202029Comments

“Ask Griff” Live on 3-27-2020

So... some Q&A, a little bourbon, and some noodling happened on the Facebooks and the YouTubes yesterday afternoon. In case you missed it, here you go! By the way, this was

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Lessons

March 26, 202029Comments

A Beginning Blues “Project” For You

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

by Griff

Lessons

March 25, 202015Comments

First Finger Bends!

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*

by Griff

Lessons

March 23, 202040Comments

C Chord Variations And Fills

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,

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Gear

March 22, 202028Comments

Pedalboard Rundown 3-21-2020

Since I can't go out, I've been doing some updates to gear and I thought it would be a good chance to show you what I'm running currently, and why. Signal

by Griff

Lessons

March 18, 202012Comments

Playing “Follow The Chord” A Little Over Blues/Rock Changes

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

March 16, 202032Comments

The Roles Your Blues Notes Play…

A lot of people might call these the "intervals" of the blues scale, but these aren't intervals to me because they don't involve a distance between 2 notes... Instead, I think

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Lessons

February 27, 202039Comments

2nd String Box 2 To Box 1 Move

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 :)

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