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Warren Haynes Lead Guitar Lesson: 1 1/2 Step Bending

July 12, 2010

In today’s lead guitar lesson, I want to show you a cool way to add some flavor to your blues guitar playing in the style of Warren Haynes. He didn’t invent this style, but he sure is good at making it sound incredible. I think he got this concept from listening to such blues greats [...]

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Blues Guitar Lesson: How to Play Blues Guitar Like Eric Clapton.

June 11, 2010

Does playing the guitar like Slowhand himself sound appealing to you?  Or maybe you’ve been trying to recreate those Cream-era Clapton solos and just can’t seem to pull them off. Well In today’s blues guitar lesson,  I’m going to show you how to play blues guitar like Eric Clapton by utilizing the minor pentatonic scale. [...]

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Are you experiencing the Dip?

January 22, 2010

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 one goes about learning a specific skill. He says in the beginning it’s all new, and [...]

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Learn how to play a BB King Style blues guitar lick. Podcast 32

January 12, 2010

In this weeks video podcast, I’m going to show you how to play a blues guitar lick in the style of BB King. I’ve been watching a DVD from him called, “BB King Live in Africa”, and this is a lick I kinda picked up from Sweet Sixteen. That DVD is amazing and contains some [...]

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Eric Clapton Blues Lick Guitar Lesson Podcast 30

November 18, 2009

In this weeks Blues Guitar Lesson video podcast, I’m going to show you how to play an Eric Clapton Style Blues guitar lick. This is a blues guitar lick you’ll hear Eric Clapton play in the song, “Have You Ever Loved a Woman”. This style of lick can be found in many of Clapton’s versions [...]

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Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson: Turnaround Lick

October 22, 2009

Today I’m going to show you a Blues Guitar lick in the style of Eric Clapton, that can be used over the turnaround section of a 12 bar blues in the key of B. This lick is similar to one Eric played on “Have You Ever Loved a Woman” from Live at the Fillmore. Eric [...]

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Blues Guitar Lesson: Podcast 28, Learn the Blues like Derek Trucks.

September 11, 2009

In today’s blues guitar podcast, I’m going to show you the continuation of Podcast 27 about the Derek Trucks lick from “Key to the Highway”. This slide guitar lick occurring at the intro of the live version of this song from the Songlines Live DVD, is just an amazing slide guitar lick that utilizes some [...]

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Video Podcast 25: Blues Guitar Lick Lesson

July 6, 2009

In this weeks guitar lessons video podcast, I’m going to show you how to play a blues guitar lick similar to one Eric Clapton would play over a slow blues in the key of G. This lick combines a couple of different scales, but the main thing you want to take away from the lesson [...]

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Blues Guitar Lessons on DVD: Do they work?

May 20, 2009

Have you worked through any blues guitar lessons on a DVD? I know I have. I spent a long time trying to learn blues guitar from every source imaginable. There were not as many options as there are now, but there have always been videos. Back then they were VHS tapes though. After studying a [...]

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Blues guitar Lessons: My top 5 Blues Rock solos to learn the blues.

February 5, 2009

In this Blues Guitar lesson, I’m going to list my top 5 solos to learn the blues.  This is a very hard list to make, and there is no way I can satisfy everyone.  This is why you need to tell me what your top 5 blues rock solos are right underneath the video. There [...]

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