Your Secret Stash Of Licks You Don’t Know You Already Know…
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Inspirational stuff! A “real” connection with your students.
Very Well Done And Said, Griff III Keep On & Keep It Coming !!!
THE OTHER DAY YOU WHERE TALKING ABOUT YOUR SOSLOS SOUNDING GOOD. I TOLD YOU THAT IN MY 40+ YEARS OF PLAYING, WHEN I WENT TO DO SOLOS, I WOULD DO THEM TO THE TUNE OF THE SONG. VERY SURPRISED YOU MADE THIS VIDEO. GREAT GRIFF. THANKS.
really enjoy your lessons Griff.
Just when I thought your lessons couldn’t get any better, they do! Great stuff Griff – as usual.
I hadn’t seen this one before and it tied a few things together that my brain had been hinting at.
Thanks Griff.
This should be done pretty much daily…very good info!!!
Today’s video is an example of a really interesting topic, with tips that seem like they’d be great. But for beginners like me, the specific info is too advanced. I haven’t been listening to these tunes all my life–most of them are brand new. They obviously work for electric guitar, but working below the 12th fret is super hard for a beginner with only an acoustic. I’m not saying I don’t like what you’re doing and teaching–I’m super impressed that you do these things for us. So impressed that I just ordered Beginning BGU. I’m just saying it will be awhile–and a new strat–before some of us will get to use today’s level of instruction.
Hi Chuck. you will surprise yourself..find a tune you know well get an ap or software that lets you slow it down and really listen to it..find what key it’s in of course…then play using the ol pentatonic..when you go wrong you will know..then as Griff says..go one fret either side..in a few days you will be grinning..play it at normal speed ..more grinning..wish you luck..remember every journey begins with one step..
Another brilliant one Griff. Thanks from sunny Bournemouth in the UK
Wow Griff super great lesson today this really is a great guideline to achieving a start and a finish to a solo I needed this lesson thanks so much !!!!!
Thanks for another great lesson Griff, you’re the best !!!
Great lesson as usual, Griff.
you do it once again griff-you never cease to amaze me–keep up the great work
Griff – you’re THE man !!! great stuff. Informative, concise and comprehensive. Thanks !!!
This for me was a real eye opener thanks for the lesson.
Super shortcut for soloing, Griff, unbelievable that Box 1 gives us that advantage. Applying that principle to the other boxes further widens my musical horizon. Thanks for sharing.
Great lesson once again. The variety of lessons is what is so impressive. Fortunately, you keep it simple enough for most of us and you stick to the BLUES. Love it!!! which we love. Keep them coming.
Love it!
Thanks for the gifts
Opera mini
great stuff i really think this is helping me im a little slow have memory problems but im determined
Wow!! I needed this!! Great stuff!!
Very nice Idea to create music
i think it will work for me as well
As other guitarist.!!
Very nice, good to know that messing up on something is not as bad one would think.
Excellent. Simple but very effective. Plus sometimes you can hit the notes in between for a jazzy feel as well as feeling for other notes that fit. Improving is the key.
Thanks Griff.I like your cool style of teaching.A already feel a bit more confident after your lesson.Thanks for everything youve given me.Kind regards Dion.
Hi Griff,
Thanks so much for the lessons… I really appreciate your kindness and hard work you put into these lessons. I am one of those guys who has been playing longer than I’d like to admit and can fly around the fingerboard, but offen times I just don’t feel like I’m saying anything – theres a lack of feeling and expression.
do you have an ipad download instead of the DVD that you sell. i want the program that you offer but i want it downloaded to my ipad.
More inspiring information, helping me do what I want to do but wasn’t sure how.
Thanks griff an interesting and inspiring Lesson
Great lesson and video!
interesting approach. some are gifted enough to be able to do this without ever being able to read music or taken any lessons. i know this because i have met so many guitarist in my life. i can do this and the lesson is helpfull . ty.
Griff, I enjoyed this lesson tremendously. Helpful doesn’t even come close. This has opened a completely new path for me. I guess it just took this long, this lesson, and this teacher to get it. Thanks so much. Looking forward to whatever’s next, yo! 🙂
One of my favorite blues songs is So What’s New by Peggy Lee. Or instrumental by Herb Alpert.
Excellent lesson. I remember listening to an interview with Santana many years back and he said his solos were based on a question and answer style of soloing. The first two lines of Europa you here question and response which is what I base trying to develop my solos around. A lot of times I will come up with a riff which is a question or statement and it will take me days to come up with a response riff that sounds the way I want it to. I will be doing something completely different and I will hear it in my head and will have to rush in and try it on the guitar and see if I can get it the way I heard it. I always thought Gary Moore was really good at this. I do like the idea of playing the lead around the melody of the song and then you can take the time to really embellish it. Very good lesson.
Something I heard long ago, now makes sense: “you only need to know three notes to make music…the last note, the current not, and the next note”!
yahoo: Good point Griff! An example of this that jumps at me is the beginning of the solo by Duane Allman in “Mountain Jam” from “Eat A Peach”. His solo starts at 2:42 and he really starts quoting the melody at 2:55. Too me it’s a perfect example of this technique.
Great minds think alike. Jamie Aebersold of the eponymous multi-volume jazz series tells students who think they can’t improvise to think about singing licks and fills and melodies/countermelodies. If they can sing or hum them, they can play them.
Good lesson!
I can’t believe in all the years of playing this has never occurred to me. We just put my band back together after a 15 year vacation and if I could remember the melody I could play the song even if I couldn’t envision the fingering in my head. Then, my doctor, put me on Statins for a heart situation and I started having memory problems. I’d be in the middle of a song I had played hundreds of things and couldn’t remember how it goes. Pills are now gone and memory is better and so is playing. Great lesson Griff
Great lesson, Griff. You mentioned that you’d studied singing for a long time. It’d be great to have a video and some instruction from you on singing the blues. It’s a really difficult subject to find instructional material on. Thank you, Griff. Your work is much appreciated. Take care.
Loved it. Thank you Griff. I think this was a missing piece of the puzzle for me. Chas
Hi Griff, you touched on something that I do a lot. If I’m watching a movie or something, I may have my guitar in hand. So I try to find the notes I hear In the theme songs or comicials. One theme song I always wanted to learn is the theme song to Mash. ( Suicide is painless )
NICE LESSON GRIFF
WISH YOU WOULD DO MORE
ACOUSTIC LESSONS!
I guess then there is no point my buying your courses. Since I can’t sing in tune.
Hi Griff I have a whole folder with your tuition in it,..you have brought me on leaps and bounds..I even bought Videosurgeon,..which i’m gradually learning how to use..tho when you slow it down it slows the vocals..lol,..but a great soiftware regardless..many many thanks..an inspiration to us all..a truly genuine person..and all your lessons feel as if you are talking to me personally. Ken Little aka Cowboy.
Just to add..I write my own songs inc one called Bad Boy Blues,..anyway was struggling with the solo until I watched this video..within minutes played using your vocal technique..and I have a great riff ..which goes perfectly with song..using the Am pentatonic in the blues chords being ..A/D/E/D again many thanks. Ken Little aka Cowboy
I notice I commented on this video once before. It really hits home now because I have been rambling over the scales in my solo practice. I also notice my ramblings seem to always sound the same and I wanted to be able to vary that. This sounds like the perfect solution for me. Thanks again, Griff
Interesting video but I am not sure that your claim to be able to sing is an honest one ???
Thanks for being there
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TC great blues teaching Griff keep up the good work love it
Great teaching Griff I low it you are doing a great job
nice info…and useful…thanks…later.
Great lesson. I began Basic BGU a couple years ago and still have not finished it. Why? One reason: These really, really great videos of yours. Spending hours learning these licks. Getting better at the scales thus doing a LOT of just “noodling” as you call it are the other reasons. I’m not complaining…this stuff is more fun than I deserve. Many thanks for your lessons Griff.
The creative juices are the hardest to get a grip on. Your telling people you do not need to be perfect is the best of the best. My theory is if it doesn’t sound good today try again tomorrow. It will either get better or you will change it until it does. good lesson in life ain’t perfect.Voices also come and go with there own reason’s