Blues Guitar Workshop Finding Your Way Around the Fretboard A Four Hour Hands-On Guitar Workshop with Dan Ripke Ready to get beyond playing the same familiar blues licks in the same familiar places? This four-hour workshop is designed to help you see the guitar differently and learn to connect chords, scales, riffs, rhythm, and improvisation across the entire fretboard. We’ll dig into the language of the blues while building practical tools you can immediately use in your own playing. You’ll explore chord voicings all over the neck, movable blues shapes, pentatonic scales, connecting positions, double-stops, turnarounds, rhythm patterns, and improvisation. Rather than simply memorizing a collection of licks, we’ll work on understanding where the notes are, why they work, and how to connect them. We’ll explore: Blues chord voicings beyond the basic open-position shapes Major and minor pentatonic scales Connecting pentatonic positions across the fretboard Turning scale shapes into musical phrases Riffs, fills, double-stops, bends, slides, and vibrato Rhythm guitar patterns and blues accompaniment Playing over a 12-bar blues Moving between chords and lead ideas Finding chord tones inside your scales Creating your own blues vocabulary Improvising with more freedom and confidence The goal isn't to leave with more stuff to memorize. It's to leave with a better understanding of the guitar. Bring your guitar, a willingness to experiment, and a few hours to get seriously lost in the blues. All playing levels welcome. This workshop is especially suited for intermediate players who feel like they've learned plenty of guitar but are looking for that next breakthrough and those trying to make more sense of the fretboard.