Hey everybody out there in guitar land. Today we’re going to talk about a technique I use to play the blues over major chords. I call them cool tones. Cool tones are half arpeggio half scale but all cool. The…
If you know how to play the blues you can play with musicians all over the world, from Chicago to Tokyo to Berlin. The blues has become a universal language. But I hate to tell you this. Just knowing how…
Ok, so my article “The 7 Fingerings of the Major Scale” gave us a good start in overcoming the 1st hurdle as I described in “Mastering the fretboard. A challenge that leads to being free to fly on the guitar.”…
I grew up in a family on the south side of Chicago where my parent’s were involved in the civil rights movement. Part of the movement was the folk music scene which my mother was part of. Along with playing…
In over 35 years of working as a professional guitarist and more than 45 years of dedicated study I have discerned that there are three fundamental aspects to the musical experience. They are the mental, physical and spiritual. The mental…
The guitar is an interesting instrument, because on the one hand, it’s not really all that hard to play in the 3 chord sing around the campfire mode, but it’s very hard to play in a “I really know what…
First let’s get into the 7 fingerings of the major scale. You can look at the major scale as being the foundation from which all other scales are derived. When you hear or see an explanation of a scale which…
First let’s define what I mean by bebop blues. It’s blues played in the style of Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, George Benson, and Pat Martino. What I mean by straight up blues is blues played in the style of B.B….
