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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a fingerstyle blues composition that sounds great on it’s own (no accompaniment needed). I’ll explain which chord shapes all of the notes come from so that you can learn to improvise in this style.
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Brian and All Happy Christmas.
A fun blues to get down for the festivities
JohnStrat
Love the blues Brian. Happy Christmas to you and your family and thanks for all your hard work and thanks to your family for putting up with ‘Frantic Friday’s.
Great tune! I love to work on these finger style blues tunes. Thanks Brian
It’s gonna be a Blue Christmas! It sparked visions of people dancing in the Snow laughing and enjoying themselves. Mercy be I love Fridays Way cool you might say..
Fabulous. I really like the “slow speed walk through” for that lazy playing on the porch vibe.
Many thanks for this.
Peter
Just what I needed.
I was just thinking the other day, we must be due for another fingerstyle lesson. Sounds so good. Happy Christmas to you and your family Brian, thanks for all you have done throughout the year.
Great Stuff, Brian. Your explanation as to why so many songs–not only blues but other songs–are in the keys of E and A is so logical that it makes me wonder why that concept had never really registered with me.
I learned to play many years ago and for a long time played pretty much in the keys that I had learned in, C and G, and used a capo a lot. I should have started developing skills and patterns in E and A much sooner and would have learned the fretboard faster by using the open E and A strings and using the four higher strings for improvising.
We have a habit as guitar players to get stuck in the same old ruts that a good teacher can help us break out of. Thanks so much for what you do.
Thanks, Brian, and Merry Christmas to you and your family. Can’t get enough E blues ideas. Would love to see some more variations for the 9th bar B7 like you did in the wrap up.
John
Great Back-porch Picking Blues. Love the sound of that guitar. Happy Christmas to you and your Family.
Wow
Started really getting into fingerstyle a few months back. This really fits the bil but going to be long process to get it down. So many great licks.
Love Friday evening, Merry christmas everyone.
Open string blues. Love it! Thanks Brian … and a really cool stand alone composition.
Brain,
… and that Wide Sky! Man I want one of those. On a “1 to 10” scale of overall playability (10 being the highest score), what would you give it?
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Another great fingerstyle blues lesson. Highlighting the importance of the open E and A strings throughout your composition makes EP 599 an essential lesson in Active Melody’s Blues By Yourself catalogue. Following EP 599-Part 2, my right thumb wants to join the bass players’ union!
Enjoy week 600 Brian! Happy Holidays to you and your family!
I never thought I would be able to play this style. Still can’t just pick up a guitar and jump right into a base player thumb groove, but I’m getting close! Maye by 700!
I like you stressing the idea to loop the areas of the syncopating thumb and high string lead areas to get comfortable with it. If I focus on that, it helps my technique fall into place. Thank you for all you do and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Brian for this new little gem – I love blues and fingerstyle. Making so much progresses in my knowledge and above all practice of the fretboard with your clear weekly explanations. I wish I was 20 years younger, so much catch-up to do on my playing… Your weekly clear autopsies of your playing are really helping me and pushing/pulling me forward! Thank you !
This was a great fingerstyle blues lesson Brian. Some cool ideas. Great sounding too.
Thanks
Hey! This is like how I try to improvise from all your E A B7 blues from the past years. Thanks.
Pete in Alaska
Another great one Brian–thank you!
I’m asking Santa for a front porch, cuz that’s where I need to play this…
I am coming from a classical guitar background but I am really enjoying these lessons and songs.
I always find finger style blues a challenge, but this one seems to come to me a bit easier. Fun to play, and yet another great lesson woven into the composition.
Appreciate all that you do, and look forward to Fridays. I’ve been a member for almost a year and plan on being around a long time.
Happy Holidays and New Year!
G’day Brian,
Long time member! Never a finger picker, but with this it’s seems to be easier to be more fluent.
Congrats on the imminent 600, I think I jumped in at about 115, so big thanks!
Merry Christmas to you & yours, and all AM people!
Michael J., Kilmore, Australia.