How to learn and practice any new licks you want to add to your improvisational repertoire: Giving it some stick with the Sam Powell Blues Band (2017) Simple Ideas - Big Results! 33 years of playing and 20+ years of teaching tell me that what comes out when we improvise is comprised only of the musical ideas we possess which have a certain level of strength or above. I call this our "improvisational vocabulary". If you're one of those who goes completely blank when called u

How to Practice Counting and Playing Semiquavers on Guitar Excerpt from "Crash Course in Taplature" (free to download for all subscribers) Here's my favourite way to introduce semiquavers on guitar, without a guitar! I'll ask the student to put down their instrument and try the following clapping challenge. There are 8 claps (one per foot movement) evenly spaced across the following bar so the sound made is quavers (8th notes). The first challenge is to tap the foot as sho