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10 Ways To Get More From Your Guitar Practice

10 Ways To Get More From Your Guitar Practice

Mar 5, 2021

Guitar practice is difficult. In fact, I would argue that creating an effective guitar practice routine, and then sticking to that routine is one of the biggest challenges that most guitar players face. For even though all guitarists know that they should practice, I think the majority of players struggle...

The B.B. King Box: What It Is & How To Use It

The B.B. King Box: What It Is & How To Use It

Jan 29, 2021

Over the course of his career, B.B. King crafted some of the best blues guitar solos of all time. A huge part of this came down to his soft touch, signature vibrato technique and his beautiful blues tone. Yet it was also down to his phrasing and note choices. B.B....

5 Steps To Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard

5 Steps To Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard

Jan 21, 2021

Learning to navigate around your guitar fretboard is difficult. In fact, the challenge that it presents is so great, that most guitarists don't even attempt it. And for some guitarists, just thinking about how and where to start with learning the logic of the guitar fretboard causes them to feel...

Everything You Need To Know About The Blues Scale

Everything You Need To Know About The Blues Scale

Jan 8, 2021

If you want to create effective blues guitar solos, I would strongly recommend learning the blues scale. As the name suggests, this is a scale that creates a distinctly 'bluesy' sound. And as such - it has been used to great effect by countless blues and blues rock guitarists. In...

A Beginner’s Guide To The Major Pentatonic Scale

A Beginner’s Guide To The Major Pentatonic Scale

Oct 20, 2020

If you want to create varied and interesting blues guitar solos, I would strongly recommend getting to grips with the major pentatonic scale. As you might have guessed from the name, the major pentatonic scale is closely related to the more commonly used minor pentatonic scale. The latter is a...

A Beginner’s Guide To The Minor Pentatonic Scale

A Beginner’s Guide To The Minor Pentatonic Scale

Sep 15, 2020

If you want to play lead guitar, then learning the minor pentatonic scale is one of the best places to start. The minor pentatonic scale is by far the most commonly occurring scale in blues and rock music. It has been used to craft a huge number of famous riffs...

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Peter Green

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Peter Green

Jul 25, 2020

Record producer Mike Vernon once described Peter Green as  the 'very best blues guitarist' that England has ever produced. That is saying something, considering that Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page - amongst others - all grew up calling England home. Yet it was a sentiment that was shared by...

7 Guitar Exercises To Help You Play Faster

7 Guitar Exercises To Help You Play Faster

Jul 9, 2020

Playing the guitar quickly has never been a natural strength of mine. For some reason still unknown to me, my fingers just don’t want to move very fast. Over the years I have tried a huge range of different guitar exercises to try and get quicker. But despite these efforts, it...

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Gary Moore

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Gary Moore

Jun 20, 2020

Gary Moore is one of most gifted and technically skilled guitarists in the history of the blues. He is also one of the most interesting. Moore took the traditional form of the blues and fused it with heavy rock, shred guitar, and glam rock. In a totally unique way, he combined the...

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Stevie Ray Vaughan

10 Lessons You Can Learn From Stevie Ray Vaughan

Jun 1, 2020

It is difficult to overstate the impact that Stevie Ray Vaughan had on the blues. He is one of the most famous blues musicians of all time, and is celebrated for revitalising the genre in the 1980s and in turn, inspiring a new generation of blues guitarists. Whilst Vaughan was both...

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The B.B. King Box: What It Is & How To Use It

The B.B. King Box: What It Is & How To Use It

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Over the course of his career, B.B. King crafted some of the...

5 Steps To Unlock Your Guitar Fretboard

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If you want to create effective blues guitar solos, I would...

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