When It All Goes South :(
I make no bones about the fact that, for me, playing in a group, with a band, at a jam, or even just with a friend or two - is
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Buddy Guy Approach To Slow Blues Soloing
Buddy Guy is one of the absolute last living blues legends (if not the last) and I've been listening to some of his music more often lately...
I wanted to do
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Adding Notes To Pentatonic Scales Without Thinking
I know this might seem odd... but I like to add notes to my pentatonic and blues scale boxes without having to really think too much...
So, to that end, there
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Mike Bloomfield IV to I Lick
This is a lick I heard Mike Bloomfield do and I just love it... it's a move that I find myself doing, but I didn't realize just where I'd stolen
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Do You Need Real Music?
Q: How do you get a guitar player to stop playing?
A: Put sheet music in front of them!
It's an old joke that nods to a common misconception about guitar players
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Don’t Poke The Root Note…
This is one of those things that I see many of my less experienced blues soloists do... In fact, I see it in my son's jazz band at school, it's
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“Ask Griff” Feb 15, 2019
We talked about a whole bunch of fun things yesterday on a live version of "Ask Griff..."
So grab a cup of coffee and listen to some thoughts on practicing tips,
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When To Stop And When To Butcher It
A lot of beginning and intermediate guitar players have the tendency to stop every time they make a mistake...
Which may, or may not, be the right thing to do. Let's
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More Little Chords & Inversions
A lot folks get stuck playing the same-old-same-old chords and patterns when it comes to blues rhythm playing... but it doesn't have to be that way.
When you realize that there
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Clapton’s Secret Move?
There is a particular move that I see Eric Clapton do that seems to be a bit unique to his style...
And since so many of you have been asking for
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