One of my favorite Duke Robillard stories: At the end of a show with his band Roomful of Blues, Duke got offstage to discover none other than Count Basie had been in the audience for the last set.

A dumbfounded Duke, who worshipped the Basie band and its star soloists Lester Young, Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing, suddenly found himself tongue-tied while trying to sputter out his feelings for the Count and his work.

"And Basie was so cool, man," recounted Duke. "He just looked at me and said, "Duke, play it. Don't say it."

Today's Youtube lesson clocks in at a very un-Basie-like twenty minutes, and in it, I teach three specific ways to improve your groove by ironing out your right-hand coordination.

I could spend some time here discussing just why groove is such a central and important part of playing fingerstyle blues, but I already go over all that in the opening section of today's video. So in the spirit of the man from Red Bank, I'm just going to play it, not say it:

3 Steps To A Great Fingerstyle Blues Groove

My Groove Master Class, a free three-part workshop, starts next Tuesday, September 17th. You can get more details and download the PDF now at:

https://www.fretboardconfidential.com/groove-2024

More soon,

David