Abstract: Do your Blues solos sound ’cold’ and not really exciting? You have fun on stage, but you do not know how to make the crowd really be into your playing? Is there something you are still missing in order to play a great solo, but you don’t know what? Well, good news. The problem you have is probably not that you are missing something, but that you are doing something wrong. You don’t have to learn anything new, just avoid some specific things.

Abstract: As Neil Peart from Rush states in the song "Limelight", "Put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination" So how can this be fixed? Why should you bother? I'll try to answer these questions here and hopefully convince you to explore other realms of music.

Abstract: For the last few years I've often been asked how I learned the music, from hundreds of distinct world regions and periods, that I play on the electric guitar. And though the answer depends on the specific type of music,..