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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn several chord ideas that you can use in your Blues rhythm or lead. Enjoy!
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Jonathan R says
Love it! Very cool. Thanks, as always, Brian. Keep up the great work.
MANUEL M says
Bien joué Brian mais il n y a pas la partition solfège ,
Jean Luc G says
Ben si !!!
Jean Luc G says
Ben si !!! Au dessus de la tablature…
MANUEL M says
Okay,merci Jean Luc,
vous êtes en France?
Pierre L says
Lloyd, have mercy! Very nice.
Mike R says
This one is pretty amazing! Certainly going to be one of my favorites. Love all the substitution chords for a simple progression. You can do as many of these as you like I really want to learn these types of substitutions for the I-IV-V progressions. Classic sounds that we all want to know how to play. Thanks
GibsoNim says
I love the slow blues!!! This lesson is going to be bookmarked. Thank you Brian!!!
Mark H says
Excellent, thanks. My ear was pulling me to the F after the V (E), but that would make it more Thrill Is Gone-ish. Maybe I’ll do both, I think they could both coexist in the song as verse variations.
I’d be happy to hear your take on a second verse, and beyond.
JohnStrat says
Check out EP094
Michael Allen says
I am really looking forward to learning this one! Thanks Brian
Jim says
Don’t leave out Ronnie Earl – one of the best!
San Luis Rey says
This sounds awesome Brian! Stevie Ray came to mind first but certainly many more that played in this style. You incorporated them into this sweet sounding lesson that will be a joy to learn this week!
Jim M says
Great lesson, Brian.
JohnStrat says
Hi Brian ,
This is core stuff for me. I love these sorts of slow moody sounds, for me this is the blues.
It takes me back to that wonderful piece yo put out at EP094.
I am looking forward to getting into this. Like others here more please.
JohnStrat
David H says
Oh man! This lesson sounds so awesome. I scrolled down to look at the tabs and start playing with it and there’s nothing there except for the following message:
“This slice has embedding disabled. To fix this, edit the slice to enable embedding.”
First of all, the “Slice” isn’t there at all, so I went and looked at one of my saved lessons and everything is there but I don’t see anywhere to do any editing or selecting of anything.
I tried searching for the topic online and it says more or less the same as above.
Does anybody know how to fix this? I’ve never had this happen before in the 3 or so years I’ve been with Brian on Active Melody.
BTW…I did “Add to my Favorites” thinking maybe it would show up but no luck.
Please help!
Thanks ~ Dave
Martin G says
they fixed it now
Bill says
So good Brian! This is gonna be a favorite lesson for sure.
Glad to hear you mention Duke Robillard, just got to see him two weeks ago out in California at the Redwood Coast Music Festival, highly recommend going out there for it. So many guitar greats in one place!
Russell M says
Very tasty! More like this please
Dale G says
Love the change of pace mellow vibe to this lesson. Always noodled around with these type of chords but was never able to put into a coherent progression to make a decent number. Thanks for helping to put the pieces of the puzzle together and explaining the whys and the wheres as to what I am playing. Lots of light bulbs for sure!
fred o says
lol… every week I say,
“ok, this is my favorite” Great stuff
Robert Burlin says
There is no tabs to work with. It says” This slice has embedding disabled. To fix this, edit the slice to enable embedding.” Does anyone know how to edit the slice? I was hoping to practice this tonight. Fun lesson by the way.
Brian says
fixed
Bobs Ultra-339 Electric Guitar Level 2 Vintage Sun says
Brian . When you leave out the bass on the c9 at 38 don’t you have the t bone walker cord?
Bobs Ultra-339 Electric Guitar Level 2 Vintage Sun says
Correction had the wrong sheets ( senior moment) any of the 9 cords as in g9 at2 ect when you remove the bass note it becomes the same cord as the t bone cord
Erik B says
Very nice Brian.
Nick Ll says
Gorgeous!
Roger A says
Hey Brian. I’ve been in a bit of a rut lately with my playing but, as always, you’ve come up with something truly inspirational that has got the wheels turning again. Different chords and cool blues licks – this one alone is worth every penny of my subscription. For me you are without doubt the best online teacher around.
Mark H says
Ori
Mark H says
Originally thought the lesson was overwhelming in complexity but listened to your advice and just tried to have one or two things I could do well. It was great advice and I built up bit by bit and as always learnt a lot.
charjo says
More blues, please. Blues are what brought me in the first place and this is wonderful.
John
Kevin S says
Your biorhythms must be on a triple high, the last few lessons have been fantastic, thanks for putting in the hard work!
Daniel H says
Brian, about the mandolin: do you find that learning/playing mandolin compliments your guitar playing abilities or is the mandolin a totally different animal? I see you included a lick that had a mandolin vibe and you stated as much… which got me wondering. Thanks!
Brian says
Yes, definitely compliments the guitar playing – i use mandolin licks on guitar, and guitar licks on mandolin now.
obie123 says
Learned a lot another 5 times might remember something. Fun lesson tks
Eric F says
Now this is one of my all time favorites. I’d take many more like this one. Excellent!
Jack S says
Lately, I’m better appreciating the depth of your musical knowledge and your practicaliity in applying it. I plan to spend much more time integrating this lesson and the application of minor chords into the major chords to up my playing. Thank you Brian.
Theodore J says
Thank you for this Brian, truly enjoyed this composition… I’m pilfering fom the pilfered.
San Luis Rey says
Oh yeah, Riviera Paradise by SRV intro comes to mind also.
Jennifer Ruby says
The lesson is divine, Brian, thanks. I had a few light bulb moments about the 6th and 9th chords!
Mark N says
That ‘jazzy’ D resolving to the A at the end is just sublime. as soon as I heard it I loved it,
blues46 says
Slice is fixed. Thanks Brian. Nice lesson
Pierre B says
These chord variations (in A) are a great addition to our blues improv toolbox. These new chords seem to limit our bad habit of noodling single notes in A minor pentatonic. Very clever Brian. Thanks!
james w says
Great tips to add to my playing, spicing up what a 1,4,5 arrangement can do! love it!
Paul N says
Another A+ lesson Brian. Such an awesome way to interpret and play the blues!
Dennis F says
Boy, just a gold mine of good stuff here. The key is just to keep working on the various
elements, instead of rushing on to the next things. As Brian says at the end here, you
don’t learn it unless you work it.
Tao says
Thank you Brian! This one is really good! Part II maybe?
KIRK E says
This is great. I’ll never make it sound that good, but I’m sure learning it. Thanks buddy
KIRK E says
Hey, dude that mentioned Riviera Paradise is spot on…
David P says
The ideas in this lesson are amazing. So many ideas to pull out and experiment with. Thank you, Brian
Stephanie T says
Jaw dropping good, thank you 🙂
Andrew Davey says
Great lesson its slowly starting to sink in three steps forward two steps back
Stacey O says
Thanks Brian putting this together Brian. Super helpful in understanding how to slide chords around to achieve a cool effect. I have heard these used a lot but didn’t know how to achieve that sound.
Brad S says
Lots of great ideas … thank you Brian!
Ronald S says
Very cool jazzy blues moves! Thanks Brian!