Your youtube stuff is brilliant! My interest is more in the classic rock genre but i watch much of your blues tutorials as they are a stepping stone to technique and understanding of music theory. I have bought a few of your videos and now i await the next big sale of the classic rock lessons {we Canadians have a whimpy dollar so it costs us 30% more} .
My biggest problem, after laziness and incompetence, is making my own leads and riffs. I can imitate and plagiarize but i seem to have nothing to offer as original .
That said, i truly thank you for everything you offer for free on youtube. Without your help i would be struggling hopelessly and getting nowhere.

G(Riff) Master….so dig what you are doing. Thanks for taking the time to spread the love and knollege of what is unattainable to many! I started playing in bands way before Internet and cell phones. I was told to learn X amount of songs by next rehersal/ gig. Had to BEG borrow and steal to get copies of songs so I could learn them, sans-tablature…had to do so by ear. I’m sure you can relate! Just wanted to say ” THANKS ” for giving our next Gen. Of git pickers a head start and ALSO us old folks that can never learn enough. I Thank you sir!. .. Shawn Moore Rockford Ill . 61108

Cheers Griff
For the lessons its opening doors for me
Can’t wait for the course one of my summer courses to work on
Best tutor I’ve had on line and off
Cheers😎🎶

You just blew my mind–light-bulb moment. Minor keys explained. Many Thanks.

To Chris: I played for years without having any theory – just stuff that sounded good – , and my noodling was simply the different modes. To Paul: it is worth getting Griff’s music theory course. It is a thin book and not at all onerous. It opened up a lot of doors for me, in terms of what to play and why. I do not sight-read, and my timing sometimes is suspect (the walking-and-chewing-gum obstacle) but the ideas gleaned from Griff’s expertise and enthusiasm is worth the struggle.
To Griff: I’m enjoying your courses and emails so much. For a slowly-fossilizing 73-year-old, who took up guitar after retiring, I’m hopeful I can keep learning until six days after the sun burns out. (And I do most of my poking around on the fretboard of my PRS SE, with the spalted-maple top. Great guitar!)

Hi Griff,

I am a bass player who recently acquired a dobro. I’ve been looking for some instruction/guidance so I can coax the sweet sounds out of this steel body. As for scales, arpeggios I’m a bass player first and a chord maker second, so that is what I learned first way back from Carol Kay/ James Jamerson, but how to use the modes is new stuff. Oddly enough I understand most of what you are saying. Your delivery works for me, so Thank You.

I am currently following these videos with the dobro tuned in open D.

Wow really great stuff . I will have to watch this like many times to get a real grip on it . I really like the tune . Gary Moore was a great guitarist . Really had tried to play it without any kind of cord or scale referance . I always like it when the guitar screams You know. A short area of the pick to the strings . Thanks for the input on this classic tune .

Hello again Griff
I too will have to view these videos several times to get a real grasp of the theory – & put it into practice. But you know what – I’m actually loving learning the theory side, something I never thought I would do. My noodling has improved 100% since you started this angle of theory. Must be something to do with the teacher!!!
Thanks so much Griff l

Hey Griff,

Great lesson and I have saved it for later in my learning progress..but you explain this very well as always..

Michael-Sydney-Australia 21 July 2017

Sorry…I’m as confused as heck….no wonder I can’t follow a lot of theory. I guess I just haven’t been able to get my head around thirds and fifths etc. It’s got me beat. What really irks me is seeing these young guitarists (pre 12 year olds) on YT who can play very well and couldnt begin to understand all this theory yet get the business done. Perhaps in the next life I might get it.

I’m practicing the modes. I just don’t know WHEN to use WHAT mode? In my group I am responsible for play the solos in One Como Va, with some improvising. One you told me it was A dorian my fingers went nuts and I started to find Santana’s note much more easily. When I played on different locations on the neck now I knew why. But HOW would I know it was Dorian? I know why A is the tonal center and G is the 1 chord. But the I lose it.

Hey Griff, excellent lesson today. Modes are such a cool thing to know and I really enjoyed the last 3 videos you had just put out. I’ll have to watch this video a few more times but I cant wait to dig into this more and play along with the jam track. I really enjoyed the “bluesificaton” lesson and I really had a blast playing along with the jam track. I always wondered how those guitar greats came out with all those different sounds. Thanks for the lesson!
Alexander

Thanks for the free samples Griff. Great stuff.

Very good theory. I enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks Griff