Sweet just one more little piece to throw on the fire and keep her going. Thks Mr Hamlin.

Both videos have helped me a great deal. I was jamming with Johnny Winter very easily using this. It has given me tremendous confidence. Thank you very much for your analysis.

Thanks Griff

Everyone has to realize that it is box 1 or 2, but ithe sequence of notes within the boxes! You go back & forth within the box moving up the box to another Octave Root! Here is the sequence of notes & then it is repeated with each new root octave!

A G A C A C A G A C A C D C D E D E G E G — A G A C A C D C D E D E G E G – A G A C A C D C D E D E G E G -A

With out knowing this pattern, you won’t know what to play within the box!

Jeffrey

Great tips Griff. I have learned so many different tools over the years and these kind of lessons help me put them together. I haven’t been able to make the leap myself and your explanations are getting me going. Thanks so much!

Always good things from Griff. Such simple steps to take to get to that next level.

Thanks, friend. You’re great!

Griff, this is another great lesson . I really like the way you are arranging these 4 note patterns. Thank you so much . Mike Z.

Great lesson! (as usual!) But be careful where you go with the “attack of the stupids.” Most of your students are older than you, and you just don’t realize yet that each year we (ok, I) get a little stupider! Heck, I already forgot what this +1 thingy is your taking about. But the good news is, I’m almost finished with BGU, and I’ll just be able to start again from the beginning, ‘cuz I sure can’t remember what I did a couple of years ago!

Cheers Griff ,
yes i have been watching and trying 95% of your lessons , shame i did not start 20 yrs ago .

Hi Griff & staff

It may be a semantic issue but Box I, Box 2 etc are boxes in the traditional sense. Are boxes(1-5) now being called BLOCKS? Are they interchangeable names? Although I’ve reviewed this & the prior video several times I don’t understand Block 1 or 2 “Plus One” Is the scale being broken down by octaves i.e. on Fret V low E string is replayed on Fret 7 string 4 & 3 & then moved along to all other “A” root notes for repetition.

Thanks for all you help, today & in the past.

Anthony
Brooksville Fl

Your are a great teacher, I’ve played a lot of years with little progression and your teaching enables me to see progress that my same old routine did not produce. Thanks

I would very much like to have what you play presented additionally in hard copy musical notation. Otherwise brilliant presentations.

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Griff, every time I think you’ve boiled blues guitar down to it’s simplest essence, you come back and make it even simpler.
I spent decades knowing all five blues boxes, in any key, quite well. With them I could dabble. You’ve taught me how to make music. Same five notes up and down the neck, but with an infinitely better grasp on how they work, from a much easier perspective. I keep expecting the horns to pop out of your head on one of these videos, because you’ve definitely taken me to the crossroads. Thank you, from the bottom of my nervous soul.

Griff, I never thought I could get up in front of people and play lead guitar, but you gave me the tools I needed and I will be forever grateful for the gift.

Hi Griffin, I was hoping that there might be a tab for box 2 that I could download.

Hi Griff. Question please. When you mention Blues block 1 & 2 are you referring to minor or major box.? Please enlighten me or anybody comments are welcome . Thks.

Griff,

Overall an excellent demonstration of four note soloing, but I thought you made a mistake in referring to the pattern on the B and high E string that is part of Box One as Box Two. Yet you seemed to repeat how you were thinking of it as Box Two. Don’t you have to slide up the neck to play in Box Two?

Thanks for all your videos!

Dirk

Just listening to Griff I feel like a better guitar player already. Thanks for all of your videos Griff, very helpful. You put a lot of fun into practicing. I sometimes play a bunch of dumb notes just to relieve the pressure. Then have fun making sounds. If the tension is high, maybe I’ll just play some crazy wild sounds for fun. Pick dragging down the string anyone? Bash the strings a few time? Maybe a couple of riffs from Pipeline? Who cares? Once you’ve already played some dumb stuff, you can settle down and listen to what comes out. Fingers and ears already know what to do.

What if a deer in the headlights winked at you and smiled?
Well, I just like to keep the “play” in playing guitar.

I heard a story about Tommy Tedesco (famous studio player) who secretly told the band to listen for something different when they played the next tune on their song list. Tommy then proceeded to weave a little nursery rhyme melody (Mary had a little lamb?) within his playing of the main melody.
The conductor gave him a strange look but didn’t say anything. Lol.

Worked for me. Thanks, Griff…

STUPID IS AS STUPID DOSE !

Hi , folks , I’d like to give Griff an interesting Slide …is there a way to get it to him personally, to add to his collection, I’m a member and would like to show him my appreciation for helping me get past some of my stumbling blocks, if you could help me do this It would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks , David Rhinehart, Englewood , Florida

Each of the 5 big boxes are made up of smaller 2 string boxes. Boxes within boxes.
Each of the 5 shapes have the same boxes, just in different orders because of where the notes fall.
Box 1 on the 6th and 5th string is a small box part of the big box. Strings 5 and 4 another small box, and so on.

5 small 2 string boxes making up the big 6 string boxes.
A bit like those big dolls, which have smaller ones inside..Take them all out now you have more dolls to play with. If you like playing with dolls.

For anyone struggling with the big box or always sounding like you’re playing a scale. Because you spent all that time …learning to play a scale, in two octaves across all 6 strings. This helps fix that self imposed problem. And yes we all do it. Been there done that.

Each box of 4 notes is one short of a full 5 note pentatonic scale. Be it Major or minor. The 4 note box below A minor box one, frets 3 and 5 strings 1 and 2 for instance just happens to have a C on the 5th fret string 3.

There are lots and lots of pentatonic scales all over the board..more than you can shake a plectrum at!
You don’t need all of them at the same time.

All of which seems obvious enough. But IF you’ve never seen the pentatonics in this way then it’s not obvious until someone shows you it.
And if you haven’t it’s a bit of a game changer. As simple as it is it’s one of the best things to learn and how to use it.

Great tutorial Griff. BTW, remove D and you have the 4 Base Pairs, AT, TA, CG, GC, that make up DNA. Sorry, this must have something to do with music.