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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an up-tempo, gospel blues rhythm, full of fill licks and embellishments that you can apply to any style.
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Looks like lots of take aways here thanks Brian
Thanks for some mighty tasty licks in this lesson!
Brian, I know after listening this is great,fantastic.!!!!!
This one is so fun to play Brian.
Fender style guitars rule!
A very cool one. Thank you.
PSB
These chord changes sound great Brian! Part 2 is even better.
Brian, Wish you had taught me the CAGED system 40 yrs ago.I could always play the chords well but that was about it.Would always get lost when I single note picked the melody on one like this. Just what I need.Already having a lot of fun with this.I am not going to another lesson till I get all I can get out of this one.You are really putting together some great ones.Keep it up.You are the best. Thank You,Thank You, Thank You.
These are Secondary Dominants, right? Best explanation I have seen on them = you make it so easy to see on Guitar, harder on Piano. Thank You
I like it.
More tools for the bag!! always a treat for a Sat morning… Thanks
Thanks again, really enjoying the gospel influence and hearing Ry’s connection.
Is the A#dim7 arpeggio always the same finger pattern?
A#dim7 – my new favorite! It’s the missing chord for me. Thanks again, Brian!
Your site is the best out there, and you are a terrific teacher. This fun composition works as an acoustic stand alone, I think. Gonna try it.
can you think of the 5 of the 5, in this progression F#, B, E as a 2-5-1? Although the 2 isn’t minor.
A Great lesson, looks fun to play. Reminds me of The Beatles “Act Naturally “. Interesting ideas and techniques. Thanks Brian.
Brian, really having a lot of fun with this one.Thought it was going to be hard but thanks to sound slice it is easy & helped my left & right hand coordination a lot.Enjoying more than any lesson in favorites.You are a great teacher. many thanks. Love this style!!! Dave
Brian I found having the backing track on sound slice really helpful. It’s great you have continued doing this on this next groovy leason. Fantastic value as always, all the best Barry
Great lesson Brian, plenty of take aways
Thanks,
Ray P
Another great one to learn. Reminds me of One toke over the Line.
Re a Ry Cooder song where he plays the V chord of the V chord in the middle of the verse (i.e. the secondary dominant), one example which comes to mind immediately would be “How Can You Keep on Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)” from the early album Into The Purple Valley, a great song written by Sissy Cunningham of the Almanac Singers.
Anyway, thanks Brian, this lesson is right up my alley. I’m tempted to don a thumb- and fingerpick and try out a pale imitation of a Rev. Gary Davis treatment.
Great to hear the reference to the Almanacs – Woody Guthrie’s sometime band 🙂
Love the old-time Gospel vibe to this one. Many ideas to improvise as additions to your lesson. Awesome job, Brian. Many thanks.
Brian, excellent lesson and a challenge for these rather slow fingers. Love the rhythm and getting the groove is the key for me. This will take some serious practice.
Keep ‘em coming,
Dick.
Do you work progression first and then create the melody or is it the other way around.
Another great one with so much good explanations.
Thank you Thank you.
Awesome, I like how you put the diminished run into the jam. Would like to see it in other contexts too. Thanks!
Great one, Brian. Reminded me of bits of Brian Setzer’s solo in the Stray Cats’ “Rock this Town”.
Found an old gospel song by Chuck Wagon Gang “Gloryland Way” Using this style. Need to slide in F#dim7 on this one.Thanks Brian for this one.Lots of fun learning this lesson.Really liked the F#dim7 arpeggio.especially. One more time Thank you;.
Hey Brain this is epic. Could you please do more of christians songs for some of us that love playing them. In the mean time, i’ll keep practicing this untill it sounds better.
Thank you!
I put some gospel lyrics together with this one. 😂 This is fun!
https://www.reverbnation.com/bryanreed/song/33390280-bit-of-redemption
Brian, I am enjoying working on this but I find the slow version of the jam track considerably too fast to be of any use in trying to learn it with the jam track. ( comment only applies to this lesson )
Wow! There is so much great information on this site that I have a problem! Should I stick with one lesson which takes me more then a week, and wore it (sort of) or juggle a few at a time?
supposed to say wire it, not wore it sorry!
Thank you for this, admire this kind of playing. It has
licks fills rythym, everything, so musical, with all your instructions you have put our hands on what learning guitarist call … the missing part… you are teaching us how to bring it all together. thank you
Do you have even slower MP3 tracks?
I know this may be not the point of these lessons, BUT would you ever consider sharing the audio and video equipment you use to make these videos?
Cookeville TN, hun? Know it well. Not sure how long ago you have been there. But there was an old truck stop that had an old turn of the Century Tractor in the front. This place had a old motel and Subway store beside of there. the old Truck stop has been torn down and a fancy one put back. I was an OTR driver for Averiett Transport. They had a yard right near this place. There headquarters was located there too. But any ho, this style of picking you are doing here. Is the way i would rather play, since I play solely in Church.