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A Guide To The Simple Twelve Bar Blues
What Are the Blues? The twelve bar blues is a very common chord progression found in a lot of songs. The progression, whilst less popular now, is very common in early blues music around the '60s era, with it being common in many Elvis singles. Even today, many songs sample...
How To Deal With Criticism - With Kevin Goetz
Hey, guys! So, some of you UG-ers might know that my recent series of lessons, Musician Psychology, deals primarily with motivation and ways to boost your creativity to levels that are typically only experienced by professional musicians. At this point in the series, however, we're turning our attention away from...
How To Improvise Blues Guitar Solos That Move Your Audience
Would you like to be able to touch the hearts of the people that hear you playing? When most blues players train improvising, they just arbitrarily keep playing lick after lick and think that the moment will come that they suddenly sound like the great blues players. Well, that is...
Pushing Your Limits
Examples of each topic are given below. All of the examples are meant to inspire you to learn more. There is not really an order or one of more importance. Your goals are up to you and no one else. 1. Scales and Speed What scales do you already know?...