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Slow and Easy Country Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – EP333

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow and easy country blues lead that works on electric or acoustic guitar. This one is full of classic Western Swing, 6 chord ideas (like the ones Don Helms would play in those original Hank Williams recordings).

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  4. San Luis Rey says

    Great to see the Dot back in action. I stayed with the last lesson even though finger style is hard for me. There is slow progress anyway and the dog heard less swearing! Looking forward to this one. Thanks Brian

  6. Simon P says

    Thanks for this one Brian, straight onto my logjammed list of next to learn.
    Love the feel and sound of this style, could I request a lesson where you go one step further and give us some Hawaiian sounds?
    Pleeeaaasssee?

  13. PB says

    So many gold nuggets in every lesson. Now that i have a firm grasp of CAGED and mixing of major and minor i can focus more on these great tips that Brian gives us in every lesson. Like the the 6 to the 9 slide or vise versa and the 4 off the 4 modulation! Great stuff!

  18. sunburst says

    Wow ! I first want to say the 335 dot tone is perfect.. the lesson is simply amazing ..I know I’ll be going this over slow and looped..so much cool stuff going on here.. Brian you are dancing with your guitars! lol.. marvelous composition!

  21. Gaylan A says

    thanks for this great lesson. I’d love to see you do a series, if you haven’t, of short videos with ‘gap fillers’. For example, the explanation of going from the F to the Bb is revelatory. It’s not like I didn’t know both were right there, but just hadn’t put it together yet. Those kind of quick lesson tidbits are what I really need to help me connect between missing dots!

    Love your work.

  28. Kathryn L says

    I say what all the other say – good stuff!! Your patience in teaching is so good. I love this lesson! – for me, I need to find other places for the common 1st thru 3rd fret chords, although I am able to bar chords. So happy to be learning from you!

  30. drlknstein says

    i am back here again because this lesson is awesome- I got some of the theory of using the 6 to the 9 chord etc and ive seen it before in your lessons but it takes some time for me to really get some of this stuff so the repitition is good for me so continue with the repitition

    i am struggling with the concept of the relationship of the relative minor and the 6th chord so if it appears in other lessons that would be great for me

    thanks

    • Mark says

      Another great lesson! I was just thinking last night how much I have improved since I subscribed to your lessons.

      The reason behind the six and root relationship isn’t too technical…Chords are every other note, so the root or 1 chord would be 1-3-5-7, but we usually don’t play the 7. If you start on the vi or sixth note of the scale, you run out of notes at seven and starts over again, so every other note would be 6-1-3-5. Only one note is different, we added a 6. (I edited the second word of that sentence from “theory” to “reason” so more people would keep reading to the end. LOL). Just trying to help others understand and remember.

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