Finally, Your Dream of
Becoming a Blues Guitar Master
Can Unfold In the Next
Few Weeks and Months,
Starting Right Now.

I Was Down on Myself.
I Felt Like I Should’ve Known
Way More Blues Riffs.

So, that night I went home and started brainstorming “cool riffing systems”. I was looking for another shortcut to give myself tons of musical possibilities. I dreamt about having “1000 blues riffs at my fingertips, without memorizing anything”.

So I started looking at various note combinations. That brought me to analyzing different rhythms and riff styles. But then I realized I needed to know the fretboard itself a bit better. One thing led to the next, and I kept discovering new things, day after day, week after week, month after month.

To make a long story short: what had started out as a quest for a “quick fix” had evolved into a full-blown venture into really learning the art of blues guitar, and doing the real work toward mastery.

Have you ever wondered:

“Why Does It Take So Long To Get
Really Good on the Guitar?”

If you’ve ever been frustrated because it feels like your progress is slow, don’t beat yourself up. It’s really not your fault because the truth is that guitar isn’t that easy. And you’re in good company: Even the late, great Jimi Hendrix once said “there are days when you’ll hate the guitar”.

To answer the question “why so long”, first of all, music is an open-ended goal. There’s so many different styles, techniques, songs, sounds, etc. Even figuring out “where you want to go” can be a challenge. There are distractions all along the way -- detours we need to take, and places we need to explore.

And when we get to where we’re going, we might find it looks different than what we imagined, or we might decide we need to keep going farther, or in a different direction altogether.

We don’t always know the right next move, and our understanding of music and the guitar keeps evolving. Music is complex. There’s hundreds of little rules, endless nuances, and countless ways to practice or improve our skills.

Your Guitar Dreams Can Still Come True.

The good news is that there’s hope. Sometimes going in a new direction can totally breathe new life and new inspiration into what you’re doing. Some new information, new ideas, new understandings and approaches really can help to break you out of a rut and set you off on a new course with fantastic gains and results.

For example, with me:

To Get Better at the Guitar,
I Had to do the Complete Opposite
Of What I’d Been Used To.

Some teachers might tell you to practice soloing with backing tracks. But to be honest with you, this is what I needed to STOP doing. I had been practicing with the radio and playing with tracks the better part of my life. I was way too focused on playing leads and neglected my rhythm chops.

Starting out, I was a “by ear” player. And I was stubborn. I wanted to do things my own way. I figured I didn’t need to work on my rhythm since I already knew chords and some songs. I didn’t want to hear about theory. I didn’t want to work on scales. Arpeggios? Forget it!

Heck, there was a point early on when I didn’t even want to know what key I was in. I just wanted to play by ear, play from the heart, and that’s it. I thought that I should just be able to hear the notes in my head, and if I practice enough, my fingers will get better and better at finding the notes.

Well, that approach actually worked… to a point… for a while. I was playing in bands and having fun. But eventually, I stopped improving and got stuck in a serious rut.

After that, I tried various things over the years to improve. A lot of it was working on technique and trying to “shred”. Everything I worked on helped me get a little bit better, but sometimes I would spin my wheels, and before I knew it, I had hit a plateau once again, and I didn’t know what to do.

One Day I Woke Up and Just Decided
I Needed to Get Serious About the Blues.

I had to humble myself because it felt like starting over on the guitar. Instead of trying to play more impressive leads, I did the opposite: I focused on building my repertoire and getting really solid with rhythm.

I would play these old blues songs, try to sing them, and record myself just performing solo -- one man, one guitar, and that’s it. It was partially out of convenience since I didn’t have time to put together a blues band, but I also knew it would make me a better musician.

I would play and sing these blues tunes and I would try to do little guitar solos and instrumentals in the middle of the tune, even though there was no backing track or other musicians.

Now I Was Definitely Improving Again
And Moving Forward.

Then there was that summer day I told you about earlier. Even though I knew I had already built up a blues song repertoire and had filmed a whole bunch of acoustic covers for Youtube, I was seeking the next level of commanding the instrument and being able to improvise chorus after chorus of sweet blues solos.

So that’s what I’ve been working on since last summer, and it’s almost like I had come full circle. In some sense I am returning to the original vision of just being able to play from the heart and express myself, but this time it’s at a higher level because I’m playing truly “solo” instead of just “soloing” to some backing track.

I didn’t set out to be a “Solo Guitar” guy. I am still really drawn to the sound of a full band and I’m inspired by the greats like Gary Moore, Stevie Ray, Hendrix, the list goes on. But I know that I can’t go wrong if I work on being able to play well without accompaniment. In fact, it’s been said that:

“Solo Guitar is the Highest Level of Guitar.”

Why? Because you are responsible for doing everything all at the same time: Keeping the groove, playing melodies, utilizing interesting harmonies, and keeping it flowing and rockin and musically interesting and just doing it all like an absolute boss.

If you can hold it together and play the blues “solo”, then you’re going to feel comfortable and confident with any band or at any blues jam session.

So let’s finally get to the point here: I’ve taken all the hundreds of hours of research and everything I’ve discovered about high level blues guitar and put it into a brand new course called “Solo Blues Evolution”, and now it’s ready, just for you.

Here’s a no-hype breakdown of the lessons that are inside:

Over time, our understanding of guitar and music grows and matures. In this lesson, I want to share with you what I feel are the 4 “big picture” factors that can guide your way to exploring the guitar and creating your own style.

What makes something sound musical? Understanding this is a big key to the guitar, and unlocks so much because there's a lot of inefficient ways to practice that aren't grounded in music making. In this lesson we’ll conquer the blues fundamentals including the universal shuffle feel.

If you've been stuck in a rut for a while, this will give you an instant boost: How to write riffs, and how to improvise them too. Each builds on the other: beefing up your riffs help your improv skills, and as you flow more easily on the fretboard, your riffs get better. Special attention on how to start a riff, how to end it, and a lot more.

The grand-daddy of all the blues scales -- but you can’t just “learn the scale”, it’s how you USE it that counts. How to boil down millions of possibilities into a few dozen key “starting point” melodic ideas. I’ll show you how to make sure your playing never loses the groove, even if you’re just riffing on a scale.

Want endless riff musical ideas? You have to know how to go beyond just scales, and start using the notes to create riffs. In this lesson, I go over 12 different ways to do this. It’s a great foundation for coming up with your own magic.

If many of the online lessons you've seen just don't seem to "click", here's something very specific that you use to level up quickly and gain command over the fretboard. One technique we're going to use here to play the blues is to make an important shift in your mindset and start eeing all the chords (I IV V) together. This gives you “instant access” to the right notes.

How to take your basic chord shapes and make real riffs and real music out of them. We’ll attack things from multiple angles so you can play and improvise 12 bar blues like a champ.

Another way to greatly expand the variety of licks and riffs that come from your fingers is to explore the many different rhythmic possibilities. In this lesson, I explain how we can boil down thousands of possibilities into about 50 core rhythms and then show you how you can use any of them in a 12-bar blues. You don’t have to memorize anything here, just try this exercise once or twice and let it soak into your playing.

Stop memorizing licks and just "hoping for the best". Instead, you can use these various “maneuvers” or ways to combine notes. It’s a powerful way to think about melody and give yourself endless options.

Think of this as “phase 2” of really mastering your arpeggios. By chopping up the fretboard into “building block” pieces, you gain a level of mastery that eludes the average guitarist. After this lesson, you’re to be playing through blues progression with skill.

It’s one thing to practice patterns, but what if you still fumble in the moment when you’re improvising? Here, I’m going to give you a way to “get all your fumbling out” when you practice so that your brain automatically knows what to do when you’re improvising.

If you don't know what to practice to get better, you might need to just start creating riffs. This powerhouse lesson shows you how. I'll show you how to get tons of variations using different melodic choices and string sets, and how to mix in techniques like hybrid picking, syncopation, and a lot more. Rather than just have you copy my ideas, I’m gonna show you how to “load up the boat” with tons of your own unique sounds.

Playing a riff that’s only half a bar is an unusual approach, but it really hits the sweet spot between having a riff that’s ready at your fingertips but then also being able to just improvise.

This is one of my favorite lessons in the course, because I think it helps decodes that “language of the music” and shows you how to string together multiple ideas and travel from one scale degree to another in a way that makes sense and sounds good.

Now you can solo confidently and with feeling... And you don’t be intimidated by this one. “Voice leading” isn’t just for composers and jazz cats…You can use it in a simple way in the blues with just a little bit of attention to how the chord tones of the I-IV-V sit next to one another. It makes your playing smoother and more harmonious.

This is an underrated concept, because it might sound obvious to just try different scale or chord degrees to start your riffs, but I believe it’s a big key to mastery because there’s only a few main choices and if you can get good at a few good “starting points”, it can go a long way.

Finally start to sound like some of the famous players you admire. This is how you can play fast, but with feeling and control -- start introducing 16th note triplets into your playing, and the best part is that it’s easy, both technically and musically.

This is not your same old chords you’ve probably seen before. We are going deep so we’re going to be looking at many uncommon but important voicings to really help you cover every area of the neck so you can find chords right underneath your fingertips, wherever you may roam on the fretboard.

A great framework, both mentally and visually, for seeing how all your chord voicings are laid out and overlap everywhere.

Want to play great music, and not just boring exercises? I'll show you how to have fun playing the I-IV-V all over the neck and even wander up and down the strings using all different shapes and staying within the blues form. This will really help your improvisation skills because you can roam the fretboard and you’re always playing the chord tones.

One of my favorite lessons. As important as it is to master the I-IV-V, sometimes your ear begs for something else and this is going to help you deliver. How to create all kinds of interesting harmonies while still keeping it firmly “in the blues”.

More ways to create interesting changes, including using “harmonic excursions”, extended arpeggios, and “little harmonies”. The great thing is you can work these ideas even into your standard 12 bar blues as a way to add color and spice.

If you want a clear path that's going to work for you... then you need to go deep on conquerings every little nitty gritty detail, every little piece of the fretboard. I'll show you exactly how to do that within the blues and with the I IV V. This lesson gives you a bit of work to do, but it's well worth it. It’s how you earn your way to really mastering the blues.

This works for blues on multiple levels. You can use them in a boogie style like SRV did, or T-bone walker style to add texture, there’s Muddy Waters style basslines to emulate that full blues band sound on one guitar, and a lot more.

More on basslines. For example: how to copy the early blues masters and get a classic sound. I’ll give you a super easy way to start improvising with basslines at the same time. Don’t worry, it’s WAY easier than it sounds. How to create textures with melody notes and picking, and how to create multi-part riffs.

This one is gonna help you feel like a real musician and not just a "bedroom guitarist" because I'll show how to use the natural shapes on the neck. This is one of the big keys to making sure you feel totally comfortable, never lost, and never fishing for notes.

Want to be a monster player? Then try this one that I've dubbed "the monster exercise". Basically, it helps you tie everything together and gets the overlapping shapes burned into your consciousness.

This is the next phase in your evolution. Once you have the positions mastered, you can flow between them. This not only gives you true “fretboard freedom”, but you’ll discover new sounds and shapes in the process.

Some say that arpeggios are the keys to the kingdom. Not a scale, not a chord, but something in between :) But seriously, I’ll show you how to use them to create instant blues magic, plug I’m going boil down all the possibilities for you, to the key shapes that are useful for soloing, nailing hot licks, and playing fast.

This lesson will help you sound more like a real bluesman. It will also get you a big step closer to becoming a monster rhythm guitar player. You keep the groove going no matter what, but we’re also gonna stuff in all the blues harmony and fretboard domination to play everything, everywhere, including arpeggios, blues licks, and more with a feeling of true freedom.

This is something that used to intimidate me and I thought “that’ll take way too long!”. But there’s a secret: you don’t have to do 12 times the work or always practice in 12 keys. You just have to know a few simple tricks that let you cycle through the keys very quickly. The result is you’ll be able to apply most of your ideas instantly in any key.

No blues course would be complete without a section on turnarounds, but instead of giving you a bunch of random licks, I’ll explain how turnarounds work in terms of chords and chromatics, and hand you the formula to create your own.

Sometimes all the different shapes start to blend together and it seems our brain turns to mush trying to sort it all out. Well, in this lesson I’m gonna give you a handy trick to help your brain truly grasp how the blues chords overlap so you can instantly get the right notes no matter where you are on the neck.

There's no substitute for real confidence and really knowing what you're doing. The better you know the neck, the more powerful of a guitar wizard you can become. In this section, we’re going to discover how to see multiple chords overlaid on top of each other, and different intervals and voicings for those chords, all at the same time.

How to start combining arpeggio shapes, scale fragments, and multiple-octave licks into shreddy, technically impressive licks. The cool thing is I’ll show you how to do it comfortably using easy-to-play shapes, easy sweep picking, and position shifting to play these kinds of licks without needing to drill your chops much. Most of the time, finding “comfortable” ways to play things is actually more effective than playing technically demanding licks.

This is a secret practice method that forces you to find all your weak spots by switching finger positions quickly, but you do the whole exercise slow enough that it’s manageable. It’s basically just another killer exercise that forces you to get better in a hurry.

The “shuffle” is the king of blues rhythms, but sometimes it can get a little stale if you don’t switch it up every now and then. Here, we’ll look at how to create multiple rhythms based on a straight 4/4 feel, while still retaining a sense of swing and groove.

This will help your improvising too... It’s one thing to know your fretboard patterns, but it’s another thing to make it all sound musical. In this lesson, we’ll use a powerful technique to generate riffs, based on the “built-in shapes” from the guitar fretboard.

By the time you get through this course, you’ll have overloaded yourself with a boatload of new knowledge, blues riffs, and ideas…but if it’s still not sounding like you want, chances are you just need to play a bit tighter. This lesson shows you how to keep feeding new ideas into your playing while continuing to focus on performing with a tight rock-solid feel.

Another great lesson to get you out of the usual sounding licks...and there's a lot more.

In addition, I filmed an hour of additional lessons with some of my most recent discoveries, for example how to expand your playing beyond the blues chords. There's additional techniques you can use to create some really rich harmonies. And to top it all off, I'll show you 30 bonus riffs to really help you load up the boat with musical ideas and inspire you. I really wanted to go the extra mile and make sure you get TONS of value from this course to help your playing and your development.