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Put Those Guide Tones In Your Blues Licks – Example #1

In my previous post I introduced the idea of using guide tones to make your blues licks sound more sophisticated. In this post I give you an example of a repeating line that ends on the guide tone. You’ll see, or hear actually, that this technique really brings out the chord changes in your single [...]

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3 Classic Blues Riffs

Fancy yourself a blues guitarist? If so there are some blues riffs you just gotta know. Let’s say you’re at a blues jam session and the singer calls Wang Dang Doodle. “What did he say about my wang?” you ask the bass player. “Oh man,” the bass player says to to singer, “this guy don’t [...]

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