Stupid Rules…
Rules get a bad rap... rules are great and provide much more freedom than they take away (usually.)
Let's say I'm sitting down to practice and I want to just jam
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Fun With 4 Against 3
Like many of you I'm a big ZZ Top fan... and when I heard Billy Gibbons do "Thunderbird" (a song with an interesting and sordid history) on "Live At Daryl's
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The House Pattern
This is one of my favorite patterns for blues soloing. It's basically the blues scale... but with some extra goodness.
A lot of people call it the BB King box or
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How To Play Catch
uh.... just watch the video on this one :)
Try it... let me know how it goes below. Doesn't have to be now you can always come back later...
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Turn Off Your Metronome
So... my post from the other day was obviously a big one...
With over 400 comments at last count, it's going to take a while for me to get through them
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Road Maps…
I've been thinking a lot lately about what you don't know you don't know... you know?
I mean, it's one thing to learn a skill or a set of skills... but
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My Favorite Ending Lick
This is just a fun lick that I've known for many years and play all the time. It's one of the 20 Turnaround and Ending Licks which is one of the
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What Is The Blues?
I get this question a lot... what is the blues?
What is it about some music that makes it sound "bluesy" while other music does not?
And why is it that we
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How to start a blues solo…
Today's video is quick... but it's a favorite lick for starting a blues solo in a variety of feels.
Plus, the lick works really well in the middle or the end
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Tastes Great! Less Filling!
Remember those old commercials where the 2 sides would argue about beer and whether or not it tasted great or was less filling?
OK well today's video is my attempt at
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