Are You Telling a Story With Your Guitar Solos?
Blues Guitar
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 ...
My Settings for Blues Guitar and Slide Guitar DVDs
Guitar Tone
Since everyone is always asking my exact settings, here they are for some of the blues and slide guitar DVDs I’ve recorded. Try them out and see what you think. Post a comment below on what you find ...
Blues Guitar Tone: Equipment on a Budget
Guitar Tone
In the last post, I talked about how to get a good blues guitar tone. Even if you do this, you will have to have some equipment. So what if you don’t have much money, or don’t want ...
How to get the Ultimate Blues and Slide Guitar Tone
Guitar Tone
I get a lot of emails about how to get a good blues or slide guitar tone. A lot of the questions are valid and that’s probably what I would ask as well, but these questions don’t have ...
Why do you want to learn how to play fast blues guitar licks?
Blues Guitar
You’re the top dog, with master chops. You can play blues guitar licks faster than a speeding bullet. If your fingers could get a speeding ticket, you would be driving without a license. Simply put, you got fast ...
Are you experiencing the Dip?
Practicing Guitar
Seth Godin put out a book entitled, “The Dip”. This is an excellent book, and I highly recommend it to anyone trying to learn something, or run a business. In this book Seth talks about the process of ...
How to get hundreds of Blues Guitar Tones without buying anything!
Blues Guitar
So I get emails all the time from people asking me how to get that blues guitar tone from this and that. I can honestly say that I don’t really use many effects. Right now I’m going to ...
1966 Fender Vibrolux Review: The Ultimate Gig amp for the Blues?
Gear Demos
Well recently I found a great deal on a 1966 Fender Blackface Vibrolux amp. This amp is known to be great for playing gigs, due to the wattage and amount of clean headroom you can get as well ...
How to Play Slide Guitar in Standard Tuning
It seems like everyone is kinda mystified about how to play slide guitar in standard tuning. In this slide guitar lesson, I’m going to break down a slide guitar lick that is played in standard tuning and can ...