“Discover How To Increase Your Blues Guitar Playing Speed, Control, and Finger Dexterity By 21% Or More In The Next 30 Days…”

And yes, those results are, in fact, typical… and were the average result of my not-super-scientific test with a group of aspiring blues guitarists, so let me explain…

Exactly What You’re Getting

• While you may not realize it, your fingers are not the bottleneck in your speed. For 999 out of 1000 students I see, the problem is in their ability to subdivide beats internally, and count the beats out loud while playing. Counting during your lead playing is front-and-center in the entire Blues Speed Building Blocks course.
• In my 10 minute warmup routine, you’ll learn how to improve your baseline technique and how to combat the most common technique mistakes I see most guitar players make. Plus, you’ll learn 4 proven drills that will fix those technique errors and get you on the path to more effortless guitar playing in any style.
• Most people put the notes first, and the counting and timing second on the list of priorities. But you need to reverse that order, and the way to do that is to make you play faster than you currently can. By forcing you to keep the count going, even if the notes falter, you will quickly retrain your brain into putting the timing first and the notes second. Then your internal clock can develop and you can play everything better and faster than before.
• Blues licks are all built from the same “building blocks,” which are usually 3-5 note fragments that repeat and show up in dozens, if not hundreds, of licks. By focusing in on those fragments first, then mixing and matching them together into longer and longer licks, you’ll learn to group your efforts – much like a typist learns to group letters together into a word.
• I've grouped the examples into 4 distinct groups – Group 1 examples are the simplest with mostly just triplet 1/8th notes and common fingerings. By the time you get to Group 4 you’ve got most any finger movement covered.
• The speeds are also grouped based on a musical format, not some arbitrary number. Level 1 speed goes from 60-80 beats per minute (bpm.) 60bpm is about the average tempo of a slow blues song so you can see where that comes from. 90-110bpm is Level 2, and 120-140 is Level 3. Most common shuffles are about 110-120bpm, so that number isn’t arbitrary.
• If you play at the top of your technique all the time – meaning you’re always playing as fast as you possibly can just to keep up, you’re going to make mistakes. On the other hand, if you’ve got 10-20bpm “in the tank,” you’ll play with confidence and ease, knowing that you’ve got some speed to spare. That’s why you’ll practice at not only 120bpm, but 130, and 140 in the same session.
• Using “speed bursts” and playing outside of your comfort zone trains your fingers and brain to know what you’re going to expect of them. Fingers will get lazy and practicing slowly all the time makes you really good and playing slowly – not what you want. Being able to play faster means that your slow playing is more effortless, leaving you with leftover brain power and energy to come up with cooler things to play.
• It's great to play a bunch of examples and licks, but it’s even better to see how they turn into “real” solos. So for each of the first 3 groups I’ve also provided a 12 bar solo example at every tempo from 60-140bpm (going up by 10s.) You’ll hear the same solo as a slow blues, midtempo shuffle, and uptempo shuffle – improving technique, maintaining your chops, and learning new licks to play simultaneously.
• The examples used in each Group were taken from hundreds of solo examples – many of which are found on both popular blues recordings, and courses I’ve made before (which also came from popular blues recordings 🙂 So you know that these moves are going to set you up with the ability to play and execute any blues soloing idea you might want to play.
• It truly doesn’t matter where you are now. Even if you can barely play a single note, you can improve with this system. Even if you never play along with the track for the first 30 days, you’ll still get faster, you won’t be able to help it. You’ll have a hard time measuring it, but you’ll get faster and if you record yourself at the beginning and the end of the first 30 days, you’ll hear and feel the difference.