The Grip Of Legends

If you want to master the sound of Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan (or countless other legends), you’ll need to re-learn how to hold the guitar. Traditional methods teach a thumb-behind approach. There’s nothing wrong with this approach….unless you want to do it like most blues and rock legends did.

Control The Strings, Control Your Tone

Errant string noise makes you sound sloppy. But when you’re using The Grip, muting becomes an art form. The Grip was all about letting strings ring clearly. Muting is all about keeping them silent. Muting is a crucial skill that separates great and mediocre players. It must become second nature, or you’ll fight ringing strings for the rest of your playing days.

The Weight Behind Great Tone

If you learn the notes to a Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan solo, but your sound is still thin and weak, it’s probably because you’re not playing enough strings. Notice I didn’t say enough notes. There’s a big difference. That difference is caused by a technique called raking.

Raking is when you play multiple strings but allow only a few notes to ring out. The clicks of the muted strings accompany the notes that ring out, producing a fatter, more muscular sound that cannot be achieved any other way.

The Heart of Blues Guitar

Bending is much more than pushing against a string. Bending is a communication tool; your guitar will talk if you do it right. If you do it wrong, your guitar will whimper. And nobody wants to hear that.

In this course, you’ll learn the mechanics of bending and the ingredients of excellent bending technique. The exercises will force you to listen to your own playing more closely, helping you to become a better communicator every time you bend a note.

Making Your Guitar Sing

Vibrato is an essential part of playing the blues soulfully. It has the power to make your guitar speak, but it also has the power to distract. Underdeveloped vibrato can ruin what you’re trying to communicate with a song.

But how do you do vibrato? Shouldn’t it be natural? Nope. Good vibrato technique does not come naturally. Your muscles must learn to move in ways they’re not used to. Vibrato is a 100-minute course that teaches you how to develop muscle memory for several vibrato techniques.

Set Your Playing Free

Picking isn’t exciting. It’s not very noticeable, and you don’t even have to study it to become a good player. Someday, however, you will try to learn something that will remain out of reach unless you improve your picking technique.

How do I know? Because it happened to me. After a decade of playing, I finally ran into a wall that forced me to work on my picking technique. Picking is a 90-minute lesson that shows you what I had to learn to get past that wall. Don’t worry; I’m not trying to turn you into a shredder or finger-picking expert. This lesson is very down-to-earth, practical, and easily applied.