Blog Posts

The quarter note bend, also known as the “blues bend”, is a very common technique you’ve definitely heard before, especially if you’re into blues or blues rock. Let’s dive in!

We take one of Joe Bonamassa's more epic licks and place it over a track to put it in context. We then break it down to get to grips with the whole thing. If you aspire to play fast bluesy rock runs, you will love this!

For this Halloween special, Dion is going to dive into his top 3 speed-building tips that will start to unlock this part of your playing for you based on many many years of working with speed-building on the guitar.

I will take you through 5 incredible pentatonic exercises that you can use not only to improve your speed, chops and technique but also use in your own improvisation, as demonstrated at the very start of the video! Let's get into it!

There is no reason that you need to avoid songs that use the F major whilst you are still mastering the barre chord. In this lesson I'll take you through the 3 other ways you can play this chord.

The blues turnaround is that cool bit at the end of 12 bar blues where the guitar player does something a little bit, well… cool! In this blog post we will walk you through three very cool turnarounds that you can add to your blues repertoire.

The twelve bar blues is one of the best facilitators of our improvisation practice. It's a true arena of creativity, and in this blog post I'm going to give you 5 relatively simple blues licks to help get you started!