Peter Wynne
Woke up fell outta bed drag a comb across my head
I'm coming up on my 2 year anniversary of purchasing BBG and starting the Blues journey which began on my work assignment in the UK. I spent the better part of that time working through the BBG material then recently, after i attended the Allen TX live Blues Jam, i started into BGU 2.0 and recording each of the lessons. After listening closely to the member feedback of posting those recorded lessons I learned that i was not staying true to Griff's instruction - Practice it, count it out, memorize it, count out loud, own it.
So i decided to go back to BBG and play each of the major lessons until i own it. I found the material in BBG is easier to get through all the steps beginning to end. I have to say that i have re-begun (if thats a wordiage) this effort 2 months ago and i am to stay this road until i can own at least 4 of the BBG lessons. For fun i do the same steps of 1 lesson from S&RM, lesson 7 from BGU (where i stopped), 1 lesson from PS&TM, and finally "Old Standby Blues". Counting and staying in time keeps me at a slow pace until i can memorize the melody and notes while the fingers and pick hand find the right strings.
For those players starting out i would highly recommend following the steps Griff outlines until you can own the material. I cant say that the last 2 years has been for naught as i learned over the time that the Blues is where i want to stay and enjoy.
Sorry for the long posting but i had to get this out
So i decided to go back to BBG and play each of the major lessons until i own it. I found the material in BBG is easier to get through all the steps beginning to end. I have to say that i have re-begun (if thats a wordiage) this effort 2 months ago and i am to stay this road until i can own at least 4 of the BBG lessons. For fun i do the same steps of 1 lesson from S&RM, lesson 7 from BGU (where i stopped), 1 lesson from PS&TM, and finally "Old Standby Blues". Counting and staying in time keeps me at a slow pace until i can memorize the melody and notes while the fingers and pick hand find the right strings.
For those players starting out i would highly recommend following the steps Griff outlines until you can own the material. I cant say that the last 2 years has been for naught as i learned over the time that the Blues is where i want to stay and enjoy.
Sorry for the long posting but i had to get this out