http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog The PTTB Blog for updates, news, lessons, and more. Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:38:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you haven't heard about the jam tracks collection from my friend Zack over at 50 Blues, you owe it to yourself to take a minute and check them out. After I got mine, I spent many hours just playing over the tracks and enjoying the variety. Some of my personal ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/charts-for-50-blues-tracks I recently found a site called 50Blues where you can get something like 50 jam tracks for less than a buck a piece. I downloaded the free jam tracks that they give away and I was really impressed by them. 4 out of the 5 sound awesome, 1 is just okay. ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/jams-o-plenty As guitar teachers we are inundated with the same request day in and day out ... "how do you play 'insert favorite song here'." While there's nothing wrong with learning your favorite song - I mean, let's face it, we all started playing guitar because of some cool song we heard ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/the-long-way-around This is something that's been months in the making.. and I'm just really stoked to finally get to tell you about it. A few days ago I uploaded a MASSIVE amount of new content to the Playing Through The Blues members area. Imagine taking all the stuff that was in the current ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/huge-new-update It seems that having a good arsenal of blues guitar chords is harder than I thought to find online. So I made a PDF of many good, useable blues chords. Blues Guitar Chord Chart You'll notice that I talk about partial chords. Partial chords are particularly important when playing with a band because ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/blues-guitar-chord-chart A little while back I emailed many of you and asked what I could do to improve upon Playing Through The Blues. Specifically, I wondered what I could add that seemed to be missing. 2 answers were the overwhelming favorites. Get a DVD/printed copy of the program going Add "more stuff" to the ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/blues-guitar-secrets-review I often get asked about how much you should know before purchasing Playing Through The Blues. This video from youtube makes the answer simple - know these chords. http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/have-you-seen-this-chord Turns out that Heath, the creator of Riffmaster Pro, has a student who is on my mailing list and he saw that I was having trouble making a video for how to actually use Riffmaster Pro. Heath sent me an email and told me what to do to make ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/got-the-video-figured-out-for-riffmaster-pro Well, this was supposed to be a cool video about this program I found called Riffmaster Pro, but for some reason I couldn't figure out how to get it to show up on the screen so I'll just tell you about it instead. It's REALLY handy to be able to loop ... http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/slowing-down-the-riffs-riffmaster-pro Check out my first YouTube video here http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/my-first-attempt-at-youtube