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This week’s guitar lesson is a country blues style rhythm with fill licks. I’ll break everything down note for note and show you how to play this rhythm (explaining the strum pattern in detail). I’ll explain where all of the fill licks come from so that you can start to improvise in this style.
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Thank you Brian…great timing for me . I was practicing harmonizing on 2 strings this morning. Thank you for great lessons each week Happy Labor Day everyone
Very cool lesson….
Thanks Brian for this great lesson. My next lesson to learn.
Brian Looks like another lesson to go on the must do list. You keep piling up the work load and I keep falling behind. JohnStrat
Awesome! I sure wish I could play that. This and EP218 are two of my recent favorites.
SF
Thanks Brian. That one looks like a lot off fun!
Very cool and looks to be a fun lesson ,,got to do this tonight! ..oh i have my tele! lol
I like a good rhythm lesson this really helps getting the timing down with constant strum motion. Have a great weekend Brian and all of you all.
I don’t know whats happening but I like it!
Another awesome lesson Brian! I can’t wait to get started on this one.
Jim
Best Teacher , best web site hands down learned so much in a short time from u, which makes guitar playing fun, which it should be! Thanx!!
Wow…fantastic lesson. Thanks Brian.
Another great lesson. I lap up this rhythm stuff.
Thank Brian.
George
Great lesson Brian.
Thanks
Ray
Front Porch Pickin’. Thanks
Have already listened to your opening 3 times on YouTube and will reiterate what I posted there: Holy s**t, that was one smokin’ jam . Absolutely LOVED it. Want more!!!!!!!!!!!
You had a blast cranking out this one didn’t you, Brian.
Wow, awesome. Love it!!! Thank you Brian, exactly what I was looking for!
This is a style I probably never would have sought out on my own but you have got me wanting to learn this. It’s a catchy and well played composition and will expand my musical hoizons. Thanks for putting in the sweat with these weekly. Can’t wait to get my foot stompin and my fingers playing with this one!
Brian, any technique tips muted up strokes? I’m currently finding them significantly more awkward than muted down strokes.
Brian love this, what about a part 2? Like you did recently with muddy waters? That would be sweet!!!!!!!
Great lesson! Love this country blues stuff!!
Some great takeaways! Happy Labor Day!🎶
Love everything about this Man, his lessons are fantastic. Thank you Brian,God Bless my friend
G/day Brian,
Thanks, mate! Excellent work as usual!
M.J.
I am French sorry for the translation
hello Briant, I congratulate you for your work once again I am happy to work your composition
I would like to know if it is playing on the amp Fender blues junior and if yes the amp settings because for me it is a frustration to not have the sound thanks again
LIGHT BULB
another great lesson thank you
Brian, every time I think you’re awesome you become more awesome.
Thank you !
This is just great. Since I’ve hooked up, I’m just enjoying your lessons. I have no amp, mainly acoustic . The jam tracks surely help. Thank you man. Great !!
Nice. I was working on an improv using the same chord progression., then this came out. I really like this and it was like a light going off, seeing different triads using these techniques all across the
Oops, didn’t finish and accidentally hit the post.
This lesson, while working on it, I started seeing how I can use the same patterns across the fretboard.
Really sweet lesson.
Thanks. 😎🎶
I was having trouble finding the groove when I concentrated on what beat the non-muted strokes came, but as soon as I started paying attention to which beat the muted strokes fell it started to work. Maybe because fretting the chord is more natural than muting?
Brian: Along with many guitars, I also play the steel. I have also heard you say that you were playing the steel at different times, If so could you put together a lesson on steel guitar E9th tuning back ground music country style. Thanks Gerald Pfeiffer
If I did, I would alienate 99.9% of the audience 😉
Enjoyed this one Brian! This is really helping me with my strum mute technique!
Yeah, I really liked this lesson Brian. I can use some of those licks in different songs.
I’m not all that fast as a player, and although I can play this at a reasonable speed using my looper,
I’m not quite up to the pace with the jam track. It would be handy to have a ‘slightly’ slower
version of this track. Other than that, Loved the lesson, and I’ve gained from it.
I would to know why there is a difference between the way you teach this song and the charts. The charts show all down strokes on the rhythm chart but you teach it with both upstrokes and downstrokes. When I watch you play I don’t see you muting the E chord shape like you do in the instructions. Are you palm muting or are you using only downstrokes like it shows in the TAB?
This is a fav I saved, second time throwback here this morning,, really is fun and learning a bit more about slide time..I noticed varying speed time for note/notes slides are critical for this country feel tempo. Enjoying this much more second time around!
Mostly have it down but would like to be able to download the slower version..like some other lessons…thanks
I juat stumbled on this on Xmas day…must have missed it when you originally published it..
I think this is a genius lesson..these country links are pure gold .simple yet authentic..bound to improve my playing…Thank you Brian…You are the best👋🎵
I have been going through some of your older compositions Brian, I really like the flow and tidbits you have incorporated in this one…thanks.