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November 24, 2010182Comments

The Home From Work Blues

Nothing makes me happier as a guitar teacher than seeing a student really "get it" and run with it. In this case one of our fearless BGU forum moderators, Wayne, took

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discussion

August 24, 2010248Comments

Learning Blues Guitar Solos

One of my favorite parts of Blues Guitar Unleashed is the member forum. I try to get over there pretty much every day and join in on the discussions about guitar

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Lessons

August 5, 2010222Comments

A6 to A9 Blues Rhythm Move

This is just a quick video lesson, but it's a cool little rhythm move you'll want to use when comping in a swing blues style. To download the video right click

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Lessons

December 22, 2009411Comments

Merry Christmas Blues Lesson

While to some folks The Blues and Christmas don't exactly go hand in hand, there have been some truly great Christmas blues songs recorded throughout the years. Honestly I really didn't

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Lessons

November 14, 2009117Comments

9th chord substitutions

While we often talk about how blues is based around 7th chords, those are just suggested chords. In reality you can substitute the 7th chords for 9th chords... and you

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Lessons

October 23, 2009170Comments

Blues Box 2

Now that we've spent a fair amount of time with box 1, let's take it up the fretboard a bit into the next 4 fret region which is commonly called

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Lessons

October 15, 200997Comments

Blues-Tricks-And-Tweedlies

Alright, let's cut to the chase... there's a really cool trick that almost every blues player does, and here's how you do it....Now that I have your attention, I'm actually

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Lessons

October 29, 2008186Comments

Major Minor Solo Example

Yesterday I posted a lesson where I talked about using the major and minor blues scales over different portions of a 12 bar blues progression. I took that video clip right

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