The Rain Is Gone

The melody of a song is the most important thing you can get under your fingers. Finding and learning the melody is good for your fretting hand, it's …

Santa’s Brother, Seventh Claus

The use of percussion and seven chords will be copious today. Nothing says the blues like some ear friendly dissonance and that's what you'll be impar…

Seeing Clearly

Nothing crazy to start the week this week... it is the holidays after all. Your focus today is on palm muting and finding the sweet spot for some diff…

Blitzen Blues

Taking what you learned yesterday, you'll add two different styles of chord transitions. One will be a short smooth transition and the other will be a…

Sleigh Bells

Today's lick will keep you coming back for more. This is a blues turnaround in the key of E, that will show how the use of repetitive down pick stroke…

Nice List, Naughty List

Today, you break the rules... well, first you'll follow the golden rule of flatpicking and then in nearly the same breath you will proceed to break th…

Milk And Cookies

Two blues scales that just so happen to be next door neighbors is what you'll be exploring today. These two scale shapes will expand your knowledge of…

Take A Look At My Life

The main chord progression for "Old Man" is on deck and although it may seem pretty standard it has a bit of a twist... two twists actually. Twist #1 …

Rolling Home To You

A bit of a shake up happens on today's challenge. You are going to mix two things that maybe you thought could never be mixed before... a major and a …