Click Here for 5 Basics Fingerpicking Workouts: https://mybgi.net/FPExercises Something you’ll hear in numerous great blues tunes is a sweet lick or riff that repeats itself throughout. It’s a basic idea that can have a truly big influence on your playing. Not just do you get to learn one lick and make a song out of […]

Of all the “tricks” that guitar gamers use to produce more interesting lines, this one probably took me the longest to figure out … And you can call them lines or licks, I suppose, but to me, lines appear to have more tune and more purpose behind them … Licks are great, and we all […]

In talking about more Modern Blues Soloing, and avoiding the basic Pentatonic and Blues scales for a bit, one of the important things we need to go over is the method chords influence the noise we play … And notice that I state “sound” and not “scale …” due to the fact that, to me, […]

Surprisingly to lots of blues gamers, the minor pentatonic and blues scales aren’t actually the best suitable for a lot of chords we play … In general, the minor pentatonic works all over (over all of the chords in a 12 bar blues) because it’s not best anywhere! However modern-day blues players integrate less traditional […]

This is a principle that I hear a lot in playing by modern blues gamers like Matt Schofield, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, and others. It involves using a bit of music theory to “borrow” the arpeggios from other chords within the key, not the chord that is being played. What that does is develop a […]

Tuesday Blues # 283 – https://mybgi.net/2TDzq3j Do you know a range of blues turn-arounds? In this lesson, we’ll cover 3 methods to break out of the cliche sounding blues turn-around. We’ll cover examples of each turn-around and if you wish to get the tab and truly nail these turn-arounds, join BGI’s PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION: https://mybgi.net/2TGQJ3t Great […]

In a previous video we spoke about using a ii-V rather of the V-VI in bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues … And in that video, I mentioned that the ii-V is frequently followed by a I-VI-II-V turn-around for the last 2 bars of the kind. Well, here’s that turn-around, plus an […]

In this blues guitar lesson we’ll discuss one of the common-er jazz/jump style variations. It’s a ii-V (two-five) relocation over bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues form … where instead of utilizing the V and the IV chord, we use the – you guess it, ii and V chord. This is an […]

A lot of people think you play with your fingers OR you play with a pick… And that seems silly to me 🙂 The choice is always clear based on the sound I want to … Related Video Posts Easy Delta Blues Lesson in Double Drop D Tuning How to Make Strumming the Guitar Sound […]