Articles and thoughts all about playing Blues Guitar
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 pumped that this WILL BE the year that you make…
[Updated November 2019] 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 you MUST have to play great blues…
[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 performance. Almost every time, the most passionate blues solos that…
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 get out of it. In this blog post I want…
[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 against the: PLAY THE GUITAR OVERNIGHT OR YOUR MONEY BACK…
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 know what? I could really care less if it’s the…
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 amazing, but just to be able to play some cool…
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 long needed answers to your mind. So why does this…
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 wants to improve on. However, I believe that you can…
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 trying to learn how to play like this blues guitar…
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 put, if you can’t vibrato like BB, then your licks…
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 already accomplished amazing things such as, joining Eric Clapton on…
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 in this blog post. I cut my teeth on these…
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 Dickey is an extremely talented guitarist, he is also one…
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 example, when you are having a conversation with someone and…