One of the most important techniques that you can get down is a slur. Slurs are commonly called hammer-ons, pull-offs, or slides, but really the term slur encompasses all of those things.
A slur is just an unarticulated note. It’s a note you don’t pick. Under that umbrella, you could execute a slur with a hammer-on, […]

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I got an email today that I get often…
I am currently speeding up my box 1 to box 2 scales but I struggle with one thing, which finger to use as the slide finger when moving from box 1 to 2 on the 3rd string. Coming down is easy, it seems, as the first finger […]

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I love to get emails like these…
“I have been playing for a number of years and have done the private lesson
and the books and so on but could never find what I really needed/wanted,
spent hundreds of dollars.
I have found what I need and I wish to thank you, this is very good and as I
have […]

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In the 1920’s and 1930’s, blues guitar players like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Lonnie Johnson were the influential performers of the day. They used a slide which was often made out of a knife blade or the broken or sawed off neck from a bottle. Most of the music was improvised, […]

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Most of us who play blues guitar are familiar with the 12 bar blues. Almost every blues guitar player has played songs like “Sweet Home Chicago”, “Pride and Joy”, “Red House”, and one of the thousands of other blues songs that use the 12 bar form. What many blues guitar players don’t know, is that […]

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