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During my late teens and early 20s, I gigged relentlessly, playing around 300 shows per year in small clubs across the States. While that didn’t make me rich, it refined my playing and distilled my ideas down to what really works. The process of playing live helps to dispense with throwaway, average ideas and focus on the good stuff - the licks that get a reaction from the audience. In this series of articles, I want to pass onto you the blues vocabulary that stood the test of many tough audiences.
As we go, I’ll explain both the techniques being used and the musical thinking behind it. But before we dive in, here’s an
