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 Dickey is an extremely talented guitarist, he is ...
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 example, when you are having a conversation with ...
My Settings for Blues Guitar and Slide Guitar DVDs
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
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
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?
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?
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!
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?
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 ...