Soloing In E Without Box 1
This is a short video based on a question from a viewer who was struggling with soloing over a blues in E... which I understand (because I had the same
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How To Find All 5 Boxes – No Matter What Key
Certainly in people that I work with every day, wrapping your head around "the boxes" and being able to truly find all of the possible places to play your pentatonic/blues
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BB King 4 Note Lick
There are very few blues players that can do what BB King did...
He could play just a handful of notes with more soul than most of us will ever be
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How To Find I, IV, And V – And More…
In this video, filmed live, we'll talk about how you use the major scale, and some basic music theory to find the I, IV, and V chords in any key
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Blues Phrasing Using Rhythm Figures
This is a lesson aimed at anyone trying to do some blues soloing, but struggling to make sense with what you're playing.
It's easy to just throw stuff against a wall
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Fun With BOTH Blue Notes
Today's little blues soloing lesson is another situation sort of like the 4 note solo...
If you can find your root note, you can put not only the 3rd, and 5th
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Keeping Notes Ringing
Many beginning and lower-intermediate guitar players I work with have a tendency to cut all the notes short... and it's just one of those things the separates the pros from
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Finding Major Pentatonics From A Shape Barre Chords
If you know the Major Pentatonic/Blues Scale, chances are you only know it from a 6th string root, which is fine until you need one from a 5th string root...
Here
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3 BB King Licks That Don’t Use The House Pattern
When most folks talk about how BB King solos, they tend to refer to what I call the "house" pattern, sometimes also known as the "BB Box."
It's basically a grouping
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You Might Be Practicing Your Boxes Wrong
I'm not sure how else to put it... but most of us learn the "boxes" of the pentatonic/blues scale in a way that... isn't actually all that useful to us
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