Learn To Craft Sweet Solos Using Guide Tones With These 2 Guitar Soloing Lessons
Soloing over a song that is more complex than your standard twelve bar blues progression can be a challenge. Most players rely on playing the blues box, which w...
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Craft More Creative Lead Guitar Parts with Hybrid Picking Guitar Lessons From Andy Wood
In the first edition of ShapeShifter, Andy Wood showed us how to take the foundational harmonic and rhythmic knowhow that you already possess and apply it to fi...
Step Up Your Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar Playing With These 3 Lessons From Sean McGowan
Swapping out a guitar pick for our fingers opens the door to one of the most organic and rewarding ways to play guitar -- especially when it comes to jazz! P...
3 Free Blues Bending Guitar Lessons
Guitar is one of the only instruments that you can actually perform a bend on and the technique is inherent in all styles of blues and rock guitar playing, Bend...
6 Free Down Home Boogie & Blues Guitar Lessons
The down home country blues grooves pioneered by legendary pre-war blues artists will live on forever, both in their original form and as the foundation for mor...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Sliding Double Stops
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
Brooklyn Blues Guitar Lesson: Quantized Bending
TrueFire Educator Jeff McErlain has just launched his first installment of his new weekly video blog called Jeff McErlain's Brooklyn Blues. Each week Jeff will ...
6 Must-Know Blues Guitar Strategies for Crafting Head-Turning Solos
One of the first things we all do as blues guitar players is learn the licks and stylings of our favorite players. Essentially, we’re developing our blues vocab...
Johnny Winter, Blues Guitar Legend, Dead at 70
According to the American Blues Scene, sources close to the man have confirmed that Johnny Winter has passed away at the age of 70. The cause of death is unknow...
Larry Carlton’s Blues Guitar Motifs
This guitar lesson is likely responsible for more blues guitar epiphanies than any other single guitar lesson on the planet. Larry Carlton shares insight and an...
Blues Song Genealogy: “Nobody’s Fault But Mine”
by David Hamburger Video guitar lesson: (part 1) (more…)...
Blues Genealogy: “Statesboro Blues”
by David Hamburger Click here for the tab file. There are really two “Statesboro Blues” (blueses?). There’s the song as originally conceived and recor...