My latest TrueFire course has been released! 50 Progressive Blues Licks You Must Know is a collection of licks from my favorite players of the modern blues era. Jump on over to my instruction page to check out a preview.

I’ve been in the studio with the Joe Zelek Band working on some new music. Check out the latest single “Like You Do” on my music page.

The calendar is filling up with tour dates for the Joe Zelek Band too. Jump over to the Joe Zelek Tour page for details. You can also sign up for the mailing list and receive updates from the JZB too.

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It’s been great hearing from everyone. Feel free to continue to talk to me about music, lessons, and life!

Modernize Your Blues Vocabulary with 50 Artist-Inspired Licks

Dig electric blues guitar? Well my friends, I hope that your rent is paid and the fridge is filled for the family because you’ll be dropping out of society for a long time shedding these 50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know. This stuff will hit you like Teonanacatl (look it up!); you won’t eat, sleep or drink until you’ve ingested each and every one of these 50 gems. It’ll be well worth the “trip” though as you’ll return skinny, hairy and downright scary on the fretboard.

Rooted in traditional blues, Progressive Blues steps up the game by borrowing heavily from both rock and jazz to craft a fresh, contemporary and very exciting sound palette punctuated with sophisticated lines, compelling rhythmic variations and advanced harmonic applications.

The Progressive Blues genre has been pioneered and is kept very much alive by a Who’s Who list of master guitar players: Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, Jimmy Herring, Roy Buchanan, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Scott Henderson, Robert Cray, Doyle Bramhall II, Audley Freed, Jeff Healey, and Derek Trucks are all synonymous with the style.

No one has studied the Progressive Blues form more deeply or has a better grip on its requisite tool kit than Corey Congilio. Corey dug deep and wide to cherry-pick and compile this perfectly balanced vocabulary of Progressive Blues lines, rhythms, phrasings and artist-inspired lickage.

You’ll learn how to apply techniques and melodic devices like hybrid picking, hip hammers and pull-offs, sixths and thirds, chromatics, diminished runs, open-string and intervallic moves, major-minor pentatonic phrases, octaves, double and triple-stops, repetitive phrases, pre-bends, half and full bends, intervallic leaps, muting, scratches, rakes and many more of the essential tricks of the Progressive Blues trade.

50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know has it all and much more; these 50 lessons will majorly round out your Progressive Blues bag and take your blues game to an entirely new level.

Download – $19

DATA-DVD – $29

Combo – $34

I’m really excited to announce the launch of my first course for TrueFire. My course “50 Texas Blues Licks You Must Know!” is a tribute to some of the greatest guitarists to hail from the Lonestar State! Check out my instruction page for more details, video samples, and ordering options.

I recently visited the great country of Ireland where I had the chance to perform and demonstrate the great acoustic amplification products from Fishman. A special thanks to Matthew Fleming and the folks at JHS for being such gracious hosts.

I’ve completed production on 3 tracks for singer/songwriter Bridgette Perdue. Bridgette’s songwriting blends gospel inspired melody with an RnB groove. Be sure to check out Bridgette’s website.

I’ll be playing some great shows with the Joe Zelek Band. Check us out at Stage AE in Pittsburgh on Dec 16th opening for Bret Michaels!

Also, be sure to check out the new single “Foggin Up The Windows” on iTunes.

I’ll also be joining Zach Paxson this fall for some acoustic shows. Be sure to check out Zach’s site and his release “Good Luck With That.”

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