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May 24, 201578Comments

Slow Blues Trick – In And Out Of Time

Recently I spent a lot of time listening to Red House by Jimi Hendrix, as well as slow blues by Johnny Winter, SRV, and Gary Moore... And I found a really

by Griff

Lessons

May 19, 201587Comments

How To Attack A Note

One of the subtle things about playing guitar has to do with articulation, or how you attack a note. Sure, you can pick it, but there are a lot of other

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Blues Artists

May 15, 2015196Comments

R.I.P. BB King

May 14, 2015 marks the end of an era... BB King passed away quietly at his Las Vegas home, according to his daughter Patty. He had been in hospice for a

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discussion

May 10, 2015125Comments

Your Guitar DNA…

When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s... mainstream guitar players were really good. On the blues end we had guys like Stevie Ray Vaughan and Gary Moore, while

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Lessons

May 3, 201551Comments

Adding Tweedlies To Simple Licks

I've been spending a lot of time lately working with people on improvising in live clinics and private lessons... and I hear a lot of the same thing. I call it

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Lessons

May 1, 201593Comments

Shift Your Licks To Box 4

We so often get hung up on patterns (like boxes 1 and 2) that are based around 1st or 6th string roots... But there is SO much great music to be

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discussion

April 28, 201533Comments

Some Recipes For Blues Songs

Like a lot of guitar players, you might have what you consider to be a pretty simple goal - to be able to play some songs. Seems easy enough, right? We

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Lessons

April 22, 201579Comments

How To Use A Capo

I had quite a few people ask me about capos recently, so I did a quick little video on how they work, and what you might want to do with

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discussion

April 8, 201563Comments

How To Sound Like You Know What You’re Doing…

A couple of weeks back I was talking about Road Maps and I asked for your feedback on what I call the "movies you see in your head" when you

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discussion

Practicing

April 7, 2015131Comments

5 Most Common Beginner Mistakes

So recently a new guitar player was commenting on the member forum that he was really struggling... And after asking some questions and getting some more info, a couple of things

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