However, I'm also a blues guy first and foremost, and for that reason some of my greatest influences have been rhythm & blues saxophonists like Isaac "King" Curtis, Junior Walker, and so many of their modern day disciples. Years of transcribing sax solos and translating the valuable language to guitar has resulted in a playing style decidedly different than what you hear from the majority of six-stringers.

There's no question in my mind that imitating sax on guitar opens doors that you would never know even existed by only listening to guitarists. In this month's edition of Jazzed Blues, I'll be sharing an excerpt from my R&B lesson course. It centers on great blues licks from sax legend Tom Scott, who has had a tremendous impact on my playing, arranging and teaching throughout my career.

Hopefully these ideas will begin to open some serious doors for you, too.

It’s great fun to play when you get it nailed down. This is a superb work out for your picking thumb and will also seriously test the integrity of your hammer on technique at speed.

Carter Picking is basically where you pick the bass note (usually) of a chord on the beat and strum the higher part of the chord on the off beat. Sometimes a hybrid picking technique may be used. That is to say the player will use a plectrum between thumb and index finger, leaving their other fingers free for picking and strumming. But as you've probably guessed by now, we're into pure fingerstyle here at the Acoustic Guitar Workshop.

This lesson has been made completely without the aid of plastic! I don't use thumb or fingerpicks, plectrums. However, there are no real rules on this. If you like attaching things to your picking fingers, go for it and I hope you enjoy my little "Bluegrass Running" tune.

We will look at 2 common problems with bending, and how to fix them. They are the shape of the bend, and maintaining pitch on a 2 string unison bend.

Naturally, the graffiti wars began as visiting artists, instructors, students and other passerby's followed suit with their own nominations. The "studio wall" is now a pretty amazing and diverse source of album recommendations for guitar players, from guitar players. But we've only scratched the surface.

Send us your nominations for the Top Guitar Albums of All Time wall. We'll publish an online version of "the wall" listing every album that gets at least ten nominations. Cool? Scribble away ...