About StevieSnacks
Today
StevieSnacks is a site where I share my love for blues guitar through lessons that are watched by people around the world. I pour my heart and soul into my premium lesson series, which have been used by guitarists of all ages in many different countries. There are also a lot of free blues lessons on this site as well.
Style
Most of what I teach is inspired, and heavily influenced by by the playing of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan. While I never met Stevie or saw him play, I spent years in front of my CD player, and TV learning everything I could. I am far from the best at imitating his style, and to be truthful, my interpretation of his playing definitely 'leans' a bit. There are entire genres of his playing that I don't even touch on here, because I never learned those songs. So what you learn here is definitely filtered through my own years of playing.
Origins
I had always wanted to teach someone what I learned on guitar. When I started figuring out Stevie's music, it was like discovering a hidden treasure. I didn't know why his playing made sense to me, but it was like doing math problems in my head.
I had always thought that someday, maybe I'd put together a DVD series teaching how I piece together solos from smaller licks, but it always seems like a huge undertaking. Also I was too obsessed with "making it" as a guitar player. Becoming famous. Touring.
Eventually I realized that that kind of life would take me away from some things I really love. Like working with computers. Like my family. So I stopped chasing that dream, and soon after, I had this crazy idea to start teaching short lessons on YouTube. This proved to be much more popular than I ever imagined, and before you know it, StevieSnacks was born, and I started making longer lesson series.
I finally had found a way to teach what I had always wanted. The concept that really put this site on the map was the 5 Essential Blues Boxes, a concept that I had used for years in soloing. When I started putting out those lessons in early 2008, it was apparent that there were a lot of guitar players searching for a coherent way to approach this style of playing.
I continued to use this concept in some later series, and in April of 2009, I released the Essential Fretboard series which encapsulated the 5 Essential Boxes in a larger view of the fretboard.