blues

Blues Expose Fast Shuffle Rhythm Breakdown

Josh walks through his rhythm playing on the Fast Shuffle in D. It may take a little time to build the left hand stamina required to hold this part down far mor...

Blues Expose Fast Shuffle Lead Performance

Red & Josh play a few more choruses of a Fast Shuffle in D, this time with the focus shifted to Red’s lead. In this solo, Red is doing some cool blending of Maj...

Blues Expose Fast Shuffle Lead Breakdown

Josh takes Red’s solo apart a piece at a time, explaining the different technical and theoretical components at work in this lesson. Check out ‘Rock This Town...

Blues Genealogy: Key to the Highway

by David Hamburger Click here for the tab file. This was probably the first blues tune I learned that didn’t follow the basic twelve-bar blues pattern...
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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...

3 Questions with Duane Allman

Excerpts from an interview originally published in Guitar Player Magazine. Check out "Secrets From The Masters" for a full compilation of interviews with 40 gre...

Making Money Making Music: Songwriters

by Billy Fishkin Ever wonder whether songwriters make money when their music is played on the radio or in a bar? Whenever there is a public performance of...

Learn The Rules

by Charlie Doom It wasn’t until I started trying to learn guitar, taking guitar lessons, and writing my own songs that my entire perspective on music changed...

Duke Robillard: Beyond I-IV-V

A master of many blues styles, Duke Robillard garners particular acclaim for his jump and swing playing. When he recently performed at a San Francisco music fes...