How to Set and Achieve Goals with Your Guitar Playing
We’re headed into a new year and a new year and now is the time many people are thinking about what they want to achieve in 2022. Hopefully you’re super…
Blues Guitar
Articles and thoughts all about playing Blues Guitar
3 “Must Have” Skills When Playing Blues
This is a question I have thought about a lot in the past and after thinking it over I came up with what I consider to be the Three Skills…
Are You Playing Blues Guitar Like a Singer?
[update May 14th 2019] After listening to music for so many years, there is one thing I have realized when it comes down to feeling the emotion from a guitar…
7 Tips to Get You Out of that Guitar Rut
I have heard so many people tell me that they feel like they are stuck in a rut with their guitar playing and they don’t know what to do to…
Do This One Thing and Your Guitar Playing Will Get Better. I Guarantee You!
[Updated 2014] Sounds like a bad late night infomercial huh? I can guarantee that this will work, but I can’t guarantee that it will be easy. This pretty much goes…
Should I learn how to play blues with my Pinky?
This is a common question I get on a regular basis, and some people on YouTube have given me flack for not playing with my pinky more when soloing. You…
Use These 4 Tips And I Guarantee Your Guitar Playing Will Improve
Last week, I decided to get back into squareneck Dobro playing. I used to have one about 5 years ago and learned to play to an ok level. Not anything…
“I Practice Guitar But I Don’t Get Any Better.”
Do you find yourself saying this over and over again? If you already think that this phrase sums up your guitar playing experience, then reading this post may bring some…
Are You Practicing Without a Guitar?
I would say that most of the time people associate practicing the guitar with sitting down, grabbing their guitar, and then practicing scales, licks, and other things that the person…
My Top 5 Duane Allman Guitar Solos
Duane Allman has been one of my biggest influences since I started playing guitar. Back when I first put Live at the Fillmore East on, I became immediately obsessed with…
Mastering BB King’s Vibrato
If you have listened to BB King and tried to reproduce his playing, then you already know that his vibrato is one of the most difficult things to reproduce. Simply…
This is Why I Think Derek Trucks is So Great.
I’m sure everyone has heard of Derek Trucks by now. If you haven’t, you need to. He is becoming one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He has…
Albums I Recommend for Learning Blues and Slide Guitar
I got an email a while back from someone asking what CDs I recommend to him for learning to play blues guitar. I thought I would do that right here…
Dickey Betts: A Highly Underrated Songwriter
If you know the Allman Brothers, you know Dickey Betts. I think a lot of people think of Dickey Betts as more of a guitar player than a songwriter. While…
Are You Telling a Story With Your Guitar Solos?
This is a very simple lesson, but one of the hardest to put into use. It is probably what separates a really great blues solo from the average one. For…