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This lesson is both a follow-up to EP303 Eric Clapton Blues Guitar Lesson from a few weeks ago, and works great on it’s own as a stand-alone composition. So you can play this with the jam track from EP303 as an extension to that lesson, or a solo composition. How’s that for killing 2 birds with one stone? 🙂
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More great takeaways!🎶
Happy Easter!
Keep Rambling
OUTSTANDING !!!
Awesome as always,… Love the two part lessons, So many takeaways, Thanks Brian and Happy Easter
I love it! Happy Easter
Thrilled to see this! Can’t wait to dig into it!
I like the fluff, that’s what make you a great teacher. Happy Easter.
Another great lesson, love how this sounds
Ray
Keep doing what you do! That’s why we are here…. Happy Easter Brian & Family
Recently got myself an Alvarez Blues 51 which I love, and really dig the acoustic lessons. Many thanks!
I can’t imagine complaining. It’s your style and I always learn stuff. So how many guitars is that?
Another top shelf composition and lesson, with lots of excellent takeaways. Love the little Martin 017. Thanks again Brian.
Love more of this EC stuff..is that a D-17?
Terry
Happy Easter Brian.
Thank you,
as per usual, another solid composition.
Love the lateral takeaways
..and the insight into your latest piece of acoustic furniture 🙂
Gary. Wales UK
Hi Brian as everyone else is saying that is a great part 2. Lesson and being one who’s mailed about how good 303 was I could not have a better Easter lesson. So a big thanks and a Very Happy Easter to you and the family. JohnStrat
Hi Brian, Love it, This has just made my Easter Holliday a lot better. Happy Easter to you and your family.
Myra. East Midlands, UK
May be Easter but it feels like Christmas! I thought 303 was great this is going to keep me occupied for weeks! Love it.
Although I often try, and enjoy learning, the complete composition I’m finding now that it’s the takeaways that are the most valuable part. Picking on one small aspect, like just one lick, and spending a lot of time exploring that, using it in lots of different situations at lots of different times, is the only way I can make it assessable when I’m trying to improvise. Maybe different for others, but that’s how it is for me. So keep them coming! If I can learn one a week, after a year I’ll have over 50! Right!
Brian,
Never apologize for the sidebars. We always need to understand these concepts in a wider context to advance. Even if some of the ideas are repetitive from earlier lessons, as I learn more I start to understand them in new ways. Most of us are here because of your teaching style.
John
Exceptional guitar! Congrats.
So the blues people are happy again. Are they going to moan every time a lesson doesn’t go their way?!!!
Brian,
Having run through the first half of this now it is just a fabulous bunch of goodies many of which I know but somehow this makes it all come together so very nicely and atht eh same time open some doors. These sorts of combined lessons are top notch for me Thanks again JohnStrat
Well I think it’s clear to see that most people love the extended explanations Brian. I certainly do. I am drawn to your lessons by ‘the why’ and not just ‘the how’.
I’ll admit, I don’t usually learn every lesson note for note but I still always learn lots of new things and that is good enough for me to continue being a Premium member.
One style of blues I would love to get into are some lessons based around RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and that Hill Country blues. Especially the electric guitar stuff.
Anyway, keep what you are doing Brian, it is brilliant.
As much as I appreciate your self-employed professional work ethic, Brian, I don’t think anyone would be too fussed if you worked a few holiday weeks and sick days into your schedule. We’d be happier to have you around for the long term. Having said that, you cranked out a great lesson in spite of the illness. If you ever read Neil Young’s autobiography,he said that while he was delirious in bed with a high fever, over a couple of days, he wrote “Cowgirl in the Sand”, “Cinnamon Girl” and “Down by the River”!
John
The great thing about a 2-part lesson is there is enough material to mix and match between the lessons to create your own part 3. Love it!
2 eggs in 1 basket at Easter time well done Brian
Thanks once again and I was sorry to hear about your being kinda sick but you look well and teach well.
Hey Brian, I hope you’re feeling better soon! I also think everyone would accept you taking some time off.
This was great! I like the sound of this better from you than Eric Clapton’s corresponding pieces.
I hope you know I appreciate your “side streets”; if you want to please the complainers, maybe you can post a “skip to” caption on the screen in production. But you’re right. It’s part of the inherent value.
Loving every bit of it! The takeaways, side notes, whatever you want to call them, that’s what set you apart from all the other teachers out there. You have a unique gift to challenge us, but yet, open new doors in a way that can be digested easily and stick! Keep up the awesome work!
Great combo of lessons
Logged on this morning and found this absolutely fabulous piece – tastier than a giant chocolate bunny!
A giant solid-chocolate bunny! Thanks Brian.
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Great Great lesson and Oh! yes Brian you are not clever at all…most of your lessons have best part in the part 1 eg: lessons 054,222,225,284…..Greetings from Nepal! Get well very soon and take care.
Loved the previous Clapton offering and still working on it, am thinking of adding in a drone bass line to make it freestanding. This new one is great, I’ll get my head and fingers round it as soon as possible. Happy Easter.
I, for one , love the sidebars Brian. BTW I have an old Mahogany Martin 00018 (1962 ).
very awesome stuff..going to dig this too!ty much, i listened and listen because there is always stuff to takeaway with any your lessons.. like your intro too here understand and agree Robert Johnson big influence for Clapton but who was Tony Joe Widen? ..Anyway cool stuff Brian!
Yup. Nailed it brian. Love understanding the rhythm ideas with the lead. Just did your caged lesson and now its all clear (well, after a bit of head scratching anyway……..)
classic signiture A M lesson- i m a big fan of this type of rythm lesson …excellence in blues lesson
Thanks Brian! Can’t wait to get into this one. It will be great to play both parts and maybe a bit of improv. You are shedding a whole new light on this style for me. Happy Easter!
Please, please, please don’t take away the takeaways.
They are my favorite part of the lessons and super helpful in becoming a better guitar player.
Thank you,
Michael
hi brian
have had a look at some dave rawlings machine on utube
now i understand why you admire him
both you and he give me hope that all in america is not that bad
regards and best wishes
david
That little Martin looks and sounds so good too!
thanks these lessons are the best once again thanks Brian
Hi Brian, nice lesson my friend but it is a difficult one, hardest than the 303…
But we are here to learn, right ?
Thanks again amigo !
Thierry a french guy from Cuenca Ecuador
I will just reiterate what 99% of everyone else says…you are great….we love all the take aways and side bars and the fluff and what makes you – you. robot teachers are everywhere else…not here….its more personal. and on that, personally I love the differing genres you bring not just sticking to blues and rock, so from an aspiring beginner here in Australia…thank you. who would have thought I would be having a crack at rockabilly?? LOL
Hi Brian,
This is a wonderful complement to EP 303. I like that it’s tasty but not too complicated. And, as I commented about 303, I really like the way you take us up the neck.
Thanks again,
Rob
Ramble On, Brian!
Keep the fluff coming, I love that part of the lesson and learn so much.
Absolutely fantastic blues lesson Brian. No fluff apology’s necessary! After I’ve done a few of your lessons, the background stuff is appreciated. Raw beginners like myself don’t get it at 1st, but now it makes perfect sense.
You’re all I watch on YouTube at the present time, I’ve had enough of the rest. Your chatty introductions and discussions are extremely welcome. Where else can I get such sincerity and knowledge about the kind of music I love? Ramble on.
Any way to download and print the notation on the screen instead of tab?
Disregard! Got the notation download. Awesome!
Awesome lesson Brian!!!
Brianl. Loved seeing your new, old, Martin. I have a 017, 1931 and more used than yours and it has an amazing sound. I honor of your new guitar me and my guitar will work extra hard on this lesson.
Awww I got to get this one down. Anything clapton. But that acoustic blues is where its at. If you’re with it, you’re in!!
As always great lesson, Brian. Nice song, but to me it just sounds like a pretty standard E blues, not so much like E C’s stuff. He played a lot of different ways though. And I’m not trying to say this isn’t a really nice tune in everybody’s go to blues key, E. Anyway, no negativity, just my feelings. Again, great lesson. Thx.
Wow, great lesson.. Lots of take-aways as usual .. The martin, man that thing sounds great may not look beautiful but it does sound beautiful..
Finally starting this lesson today lol simply good and plenty stuff here as always your lessons are 5 stars for me!
Man I recommend every member hit the like button on youtube .. these two lessons ep 303 and 305 are excellent beginner to advanced lessons and walked and explained so well it is easy to see these two lessons are really the roots to the rag time blues and basis for most any blues orientations.. Brian you get my thumbs up like buttons on youtube Buddy!
Fell in love with EP303 – Eric Clapton Unplugged Style Lead; have work on it to where I can play with the slow back track; then came EP305 – Part 2; they go together so beautifully and I just about have it to the same speed; there must be infinite variations that would fit with these two; hopefully you will add some more to these. Maybe someday, if I keep working at it, I will come up with some of my own. You really inspire me to keep learning. Thank you so much.
Hi Brian,
What a great tune ! I used the backimg track from EP303 and played the lead from EP303 for the first 24 bars, then Ep305 for the next 24 bars and then back to EP303 for the last 24 bars. The only trouble is I have trouble remembering all the notes. I am vision impaired so I can not sight read music anymore – but I love playing this arrangement. If I get lost I throw something in until my memory returns.
WOW…Yes!!! Pretty much got the 303 down packed, now for 305….few more hours…. I personally think your side bar comments are awesome especially where you show us the same move down the neck in G or A. Oh and the 1 chord, 4 chord, 5 chord and where we are at…I like all the different licks that you suggest to replace other licks. Or just different endings. You are great! Thanks a million for upgrading my playing. These licks are where I’m at!!!!
Good Lesson. I think sometimes people don’t realize that you are giving “guitar lessons” online. It would be easy for you to just say “here is the song for this week, play it like this”. Instead, you are giving us insight into why we are playing the song a certain way, and how we can use that information and apply it to other music. I applaud you for that. Also, I really appreciate learning a song that has both rhythm and lead. That way you can sit down and play it for people and it truly sounds like a great piece of music. I hope that you give us more of the same.
This one I liked a lot on how to use the harmonize 3rd and 6th or 6th othe 9th triads on the second half using the same shape pentatonic pattern 1 in the key of E 3 frets ahead we find the major scale therefore besides all these thecnical aspects the whole song is so fun to play like the 303 and I can imagine someday with 12 to 56 gauge strings I think it will do better
By the way this is a good exercise in overall
Love the ‘fluff’ and the ‘rambling’!
Hope you’re feeling better! (I’m a few weeks behind) ….This was an awesome lesson! Even when you’re feeling bad you top the charts as the best!
Thanks for sharing your talent!
Michael S.
Hey There! i just recently joined up and am absolutely thrilled with your approach. I am working on 305 and have a question. I am banging out the repetition of the 1 chord with the slide riff and tapping my foot and alls well except when i try to adapt that together with the opening part , the 1chord rhythm doesn’t jive. I have to play the open E at the same time as the second note of the slide in order to get the timing right. Does that make sense to anyone. Now when i do the same thing with the 4 chord ,and hit the open A string after the slide it works perfectly. Then i noticed when you actually play the piece all together you might be playing what i’m suggesting above, but it is a bit to quick for me to really tell. Somebody help me out here.
Brian does such a wonderful teaching job. Reminds me of my best college professors. Since Covid, Brian is my go to instructor.
Brian, keep teaching BOTH the actual note per note song AND the theory behind it, and how to incorporate it in my playing. I haven’t quite fully employed the application of these “licks” into my “song writing” or improv, but I can sense that it will “click” at some point. Great content. ty ty ty, B.
Can’t get enough of these unplugged courses! Thank you, Brian!
303 and 305 are so much fun to play and learn. Runs, licks, lead trills, lead-ins, turn arounds, so much gold! Then how it relates to understanding keys.
Great teacher that gets it! I recommend you all the time.
All the Best Brian.
This lesson just clicked!! I love it when that happens!
That Tony Joe White E chord with two fretted notes and all the open strings (muting only the 5th string open A) is the bomb, can’t believe I’ve never stumbled across it before. So simple, so cool, so useful, I’ll be using it a lot. I realized you can fret the 5th string at the 5th fret to make it a full 6 string chord, but I love the sparseness of just the two fretted notes. The Martin 0-17 has a great sound for this kind of material, a small body all mahogany Martin is on my bucket list.
That E chord is not the only takeaway, there are several great moves in this lesson.
Hey Brian- i am really digging in hard to the Clapton Acoustic stuff you have posted and liking it alot. Glad to be back in the fold.
David
Keep rambling please! The little Robert Johnson descending lick was worth the whole lesson to me.(;
Don’t ever Take Away the Take Aways!!! That is what separates you form all the other teachers online. If anything include more. More Theory, more explanations, more take aways. If we want to learn what fret / string to put a finger on and have no syntax, you can get that from anyone online, or read some tabs. I wasted half my life playing tabs and learning songs, but now I can make my own music! Its the context you provide that ties it all together and has made me 200% better in the last two years. Don’t change a thing!
The Blue Note from the minor pattern you mention at 7:45 part 2 (flat 5) – when you hit that in the major pattern is the flat 3, So you are adding a flat 3 to a Major pentatonic and getting the Minor to Major bluesy dissonance. All ties together my friend.
Old person self has a serious disadvantage
I have CRS
Can’t Remember Shot