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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a minor key blues lead in C minor. You’ll be playing the chord changes as well as staying within the key of the song (explained in the video). This is made up of influences by Santana, Eric Clapton, and David Gilmour. To learn how to play the R&B style rhythm for this lesson, visit MicroLesson ML055
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Very sweet sounds. Good stuff Brian!
Hi Brian, am i right but i miss the video section with the soundslice tablature??
Greetings,Ron
Sorry about that Ron – I had the audio version on the video switched. You can just refresh the page and you’ll see the video version now.
I’m going to really enjoy this one! Thanks again Brian>
Good stuff. Thanks for all your work.
Beautiful composition Brian. Really looking forward to getting into this lesson. Thanks again.
Rick
Nice ! like the smooth feel ! good lesson Brian !
Couldn’t get this into my favorites fast enough! Man, that’s a keeper minor blues with a ton of take aways. Thanks Brian!
This song also makes me think Beatles “She’s so Heavy” written by John Lennon on the Abbey Road album…..same time signature I believe…same minor key perhaps but also with that progression. Easily one of the top most unusual Beatles songs…………and also a great jam!! Jim C.
That is exactly what I thought of once I started learning that progression!
just in case you had forgotten – this is why you join as a premium member… friggin gold… 😉
Brian just curious do you tap your foot six Beats to a measure or just twice on one and four.
I guess I wouldn’t really tap my foot on something like this – tapping on every beat would be difficult to do though – you’d almost be tap dancing 😉
Hey Brian, Great lesson , as always. When I’m playing 6/8 or 12/8, I tap my foot on the first beat of the triplet. 6/8 kind of becomes 2/4 and 12/ 8 is like 4/4.
Nice SG. My first good guitar was a 1974 SG. I bought it brand new and put many miles on it.
Hi Brian!
I love this lesson! Absolutely beautiful!
I love the backing track. Would it be possible for you to give a lesson on that: e.g. The strum pattern and the chords, maybe as a Micro-lesson?
Cheers,
Rich F
hell im up for that , its quite easy to pick up though if you can get that walk down rhythm part Brian shows at 18:32 first part .Play the track then quickly get to the tab expand and follow chord symbols
Hi Brian , great lesson plus 3 of my favourite guitarists couldn’t get any better this one really grooves cheers.
Maybe my all time favorite!!!
Absolutely Beautiful, Love it.
Myra.
Another masterclass. The bar just got a bit higher still…
Awesome lesson again ! Makes me think a bit of “Since I’ve been loving you” by Led Zeppelin, one of my favorite songs.
Can’t wait to practice on that. Many thanks for this highlight, Brian !
Cheers,
Andreas
Thanks Brian for another great lesson. Beautiful to listen to and fun to learn.
Ray P.
At around 18:32 in the Free Lesson Video you go into a Cm walk down but the tab reads 8-10 on the 4th then the 3rd string and then holding the 8th fret 2nd string while bending the 3rd string 10th fret 3 times. I hesitate to ask because no one else has mentioned anything. I’m confused and I must be missing something because I am usually wrong and if you don’t believe me you can ask my wife. Im certain what you play in the video and what’s written on the tab work but I just want to make sure my age and eyesight aren’t working against me.
Hey Michael – I was just showing what the rhythm part was doing at 18:32 – that’s not what the lead was playing.
Thanks Brian. I appreciate your taking the time to get back to me. I suppose I just hadn’t had enough coffee yet.
Brian this Rhythm walk down Michael is referring to i have heard this type of run before in the intro to EP153 is this a common trick that can be used ? is there a lesson in this alone i wonder perhaps a micro lesson , It would be great know more around this . Thanks
Hey Brian,
That walk down is also used in Eric Clapton’s “Old Love”, and “Stairway to Heaven” isn’t it?
Probably a bunch of other songs too.
Love this lesson. Emotional Blues done right. Fun to play.
Outdid yourself again!
Quite intricate, Brian! I’ve been following and learning from all the lessons you post for free and I am truly grateful. Now that I have joined your community (for free) I have even more to be grateful for. I’m still saving for that Premium membership which I think I will get at the same time as I purchase a new guitar. And while we’re on the subject of new guitars, that’s a very nice SG you’re holding in the video but I really can’t believe you didn’t offer your inner “Angus” as a first lesson on it!!!
Cheers from New Zealand.
I do love Angus! I have done a few in the style of Angus Young in the past 🙂
Love this lesson,soon as I Finnish with EP217 my first lesson I will start this as my second lesson,great work Brian 🙂
Brian!!! This is so so so good ! Thank you ! Ps that sg Gibson looks fantastic!
wow! Right away for me I heard Gilmour ( shine on you crazy diamond) , I do hear Clapton too cool feel and bends in minor solo pentatonic.. I was away last few weeks hardly any time for routine AM lessons..settling down going to really enjoy this lesson a lot! thanks Brian, I do hear Clapton too
Just half way through your 1st intro video tutorial,, really cool hearing the Santana (understanding much and you are doing excellent job helping visualize the connection of the minor scale shapes ( harmonic natural minor and the pentatonic) hear Santana Clapton Gilmour BB Kking licks with good feel instructional too..really cool lesson!
Hello Brian, wonderful guitar lesson revolving around c. Whether it is intentional or happenstance, many of your lessons complement Tim Pierce’s guitar lessons. I spent some time learning one of Tim’s recent lessons and his lesson and this lesson that you have provided, overlap very nicely. Finally, I appreciate the excellent insight relating to music you offer on a weekly basis. Sincerely, Bert Clark
Hello Brian, wonderful guitar lesson revolving around c. Whether it is intentional or happenstance, many of your lessons overlap Tim Pierce’s lessons. Not complaining! Finally, I appreciate the excellent insight relating to music you offer on a weekly basis. Sincerely, Bert Clark
Hello Brian, wonderful guitar lesson revolving around C. I can clearly see now why Jimi Hendrix loved playing out of C. Finally, I appreciate the excellent insight relating to music you offer on a weekly basis. Sincerely, Bert Clark
Brian please can you stop coming up with so many great lessons as my favourites list is getting longer and longer…….ha ha!
Thanks for all the lessons.
Robert.
as usual- I fall in love with the backing tract on the lead lessons- I am more of a rhythm player- lacking speed on lead runs- so i play em slow…ah so what… I think they sound good….
anyway this melody – reminds me of “loan me a dime” by Boz scaggs and duane allman…one of my all time favorites..and I love the walk down at 18 mins in part one..
Thanks for the great lesson! A definite Gilmour/Santana/Clapton run. I really like those triads.
Whoa! Very tasty Brian. Lots of great phrasing going on.
Amazing lesson dude.
Frank
Great lesson (no departure from the past)……..i notice in this lesson and the last that the “On Screen Tab Viewer” had a bug…..maybe its my computer…..but i notice when using this in reduced speed that the end of the lesson (last line or so) the audio turned off. In 80% mode it was a couple of music lines (no sound) and with 90% speed this reduced to about a line of music ….on full screen mode. Thought you might check this…..again maybe it my Mac.
wow, my guitar is having a melt-down, and my brain is telling me play on through all the ‘others’ in ‘there’ but I hear,, yup,, Gilmour clearly ,, shine on you crazy diamond ! cool lesson thanks Brian, man what we’re you thinking on the morning walk??
Hi Brian.
I love the tone from the latest Clapton, Gilmour, Santana lesson. Can you describe your rig? Are you playing through an amp or a modeling pedal (I.e. Line 6)? If an amp, which one and setting? The SG sounds fantastic
Steve
In the opening, I hear some George Harrison there. 🙂
I agree
Ahh, very nice! And, yes, I agree to the other mates who requested a lesson for the backing track 😉 Greetings from Germany
Santana soul & blues , just like old Santana
I’m so used to playing blues, major or minor, in a 12 bar format, that I’m having trouble feeling comfortable with this progression. I’d like to hear
a rhythm track outlining these changes.
Thanks for all the great lessons !
Brian – Beautiful ! I loved the harmonic scale section. Could you create a piece entirely on the Harmonic scale ?
Thanks !
Love it to death! I hear Gilmore smeared all over this.
any time you can work in a floyd-ish bar or 2 is ok by me 🙂
Thanks for clearing up 18:32. It is what I thought. Great Lesson!!
Hi Brian-
Really nice lesson. What are the chords of that walkdown around bar 13? Cm-C?-Cm7-?-?
Cheers from Waiheke Island, NZ-
Grant
Brian, you da man.
This one hits so many emotional buttons for me! Love the progression and the tasty licks.
Hi Brian, another Aussie here. I’m a Dobro player and the three fingered picking works in place of the hybrid style you use. Your teaching style is great and I would recommend you to all. I have tried to use my ring finger, but it lacks strength, and the others just take over. You had me confused when you started with the G sharp chord, then I said hang on that’s A flat that’s why it works. I use A flat in my endings on Dobro it works a treat, along with B flat, E flat. Keep up the good work. Ian C.
Brian I can’t say enough about this lesson, I love it! I’m hearing Albert King a lot and Clapton all over the place. I had resorted to a G7 in bar 17 but the G9 definitely works better.
Probably my fav lesson.. Love this style. Thanks Brian
This one is awesome! Now I know it, I can’t stop playing it. Thanks so much for all your hard work. What you do has helped me so much since I joined. Bravo Sir! 👏🏼
Hi Brian
Thank you
I have the lead down but this song was a walk down similar to Eric Claptons Old Love.
It’s lead is in the key of A but not sure the song is in the key of A. I’m interested in this Key of C walk down. It would be, nice if you could provide, the chords or notes used in the walk down. I was a bass player that moved to lead and find it beneficial to try to learn the cord changes. I think it helps.
Thank you
UDaMan
Damn that’s beautiful! Can’t wait to get to this one. Brian, you have such a talent for creating study pieces that are not too technically difficult but sound amazing, making me feel like a pro!