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In this week’s guitar lesson you’ll learn how to play a heavy blues lead on electric guitar (although you can play the first half on acoustic if that’s all you have). You’ll learn how to play the chord changes in this 12 bar blues structure. Included MP3 jam track and tablature.
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Great licks!🎶
Like it! And a bit o’ country feel thrown in!
Love it! Just what I needed for this weekend!
Thank you, Brian for being so consistent and always delivering great material to play and learn from.
Best,
Michael
Lots of good stuff !!!
Wow! This sure isn’t Greensleeves. Thanks for a nice blues Brian.
I love that you always keep your lessons just a step past easy/basic. You have unique touch of going just beyond the basic AND you mix in a few licks and techniques that are difficult to the beginner but make them easy to learn with a little effort. I am also not sad anymore sine I realized that the ads only appear in the old lessons!
I also want to put in an early request for next years Christmas tune. Run Run Rudolph get’s my vote! The Keith Richards version of course. 🙂
Awesome Jimmy Vaughan thang going on in it, very cool!
LOVE IT! LOVE IT! LOVE IT! More of this PLEASE!!!
I agree! This is the music I love and like to learn to play.
So Brian ,please more of this
Note: Much of this lesson can actually be added seamlessly to Brian’s twin Muddy Waters great courses…..substituted or improvised !! Jim C.
cool! gonna try it.
Awesome lesson Brian….love those noiseless pic ups like Claptons Blackie and they really sound great without the humm
By the way you used to have Another version of Jingle Bells on your Christmas page? Did you take it out for copyright reason? Love to practice this again!
Nice Brian
Yes, just went through it, going to enjoy practicing and learning this from Brian! agree another fun and fulfilling blues lesson!
That is badass! I love it! Thanks Brian
Love the mixture of styles, lots of awesome licks to take from this. Every time I listen to it it sounds even better. Would LOVE to see a part 2!!!! The two Muddy Waters lessons were awesome, but I thought your part 2 was even better than part 1…..I know you don’t do part 2 very often but this deserves it in my opinion.
Nice blues, but definitely not my style of playing. Maybe I will practice Greensleeves again today.
Nice one Brian!! Glad to see the black strat back again..
Mark
Great lesson Brian. This is a great song too.
Thanks
Ray
Hi Brian, man – one of your best yet ! Lovin this one !
A lot of people would call this Blues Rock, including me. And I’ve been looking for a good blues rock tune to add to my repertoire, so this sounds like it. For some reason, I kept hearing Little Richard’s “Lucille” lyrics in my head as I listened to the demo.
GREAT!!!!
G/day Brian,
This is just terrific work. I wish I had your fluent style. Great work, mate. I’ll continue to work on it.
M.J.
Brian- I couldn’t figure out where is the best place to make this suggestion/request so I am just going to put it here and hope that you see it. I am just moving from acoustic/folk guitar to electric. Mostly because I want to learn how to solo and move up the neck. I have gotten familiar with the pentatonic shapes and can now move around a bit to express what I am feeling, mostly just noodleing. It seems like the next step is to learn when and how to do the double stops. Ie, how do you know what two notes can be played together? What do I need to know or understand to get started on this? I suspect you will tell me to just pick another note from the current chord, but what if you dont know the current chord and are just playing by feel? A lesson on this would be great. “How to start using double stops.”
have a look at this lesson – https://www.activemelody.com/lesson/double-stop-guitar-lesson-learning-how-to-play-harmonizing-lead-ep055/
+1 on the micro lesson. Also possibly of adding the way to move to different keys using the same triangle style approach.
Hello,
which Kemper Profile die You use?
yeapyea
Brain , please stop the tease, now put the toy away roll out the Twin Reverb and please get the Byrdland, not that the Strat is not cool but a very predictable sound, Seriously, I’m not trying to be insulting or rude, please just take my suggestion as a grain of salt, I would also bet others might have thought what’s up? where’s the Gibby Byrdland ?? ! awesome lesson Brain
Yet ANOTHER AWESOME blues lesson
Hi Brian,
A great lesson with a really terrific arrangement of blues interwoven with some country which sounds really cool. Thank you for bringing this lesson to us. I really won’t to get this down and have it within my repertoire.
Love the way you demonstrate the relevant Scale positions. It really helps!!
Thank you so much,
Best wishes,
Ken
Again, this is really excellent. The referencing to chord shape positions is very illuminating. It does make you want to go ahead and start improvising.
Brian you have absolutely outdone yourself this time…… incredible lesson….. but can you do it on a Ukulele
Great lesson. Wish there was a slow version of the backing track though. Slowing this one down where I can practice it turns it to sludge
Maybe take a look at Transcribe! software; with it you can slow down any of the backing tracks and retain the correct frequencies.
Great lesson,you are the best on the net for sure Brian. I’m a big country fan so this fits right in there with what I like. Thank you ever so much for your lessons.
I like it! Just the kind of stuff I can sink my teeth into.
BTW, I love blues rock and love the sound of a strat. Would love to see more lessons that will give me an excuse to break out the strat and crank up the gain.
This lesson has been such a lot of fun! Really enjoyed it and it’s packed with takeaways. Was listening to Walter Trout and Robben Ford’s rendition of Mr Davis walking to work recently and I think that must have put in the mood, but whatever it was, this hit the spot!
Great lesson – if I can learn to play this one then maybe I’m ready to play with other people – I’m sticking with this one even if it takes a month – this is my kind of music
Great classic lead guitar. I have to learn this… I just can’t find enough time!
just watched you Brian again after logging in,, man this is tight,,tempo is fast,,i am currently memorizing the tab but still slow going to this tempo.. it’s okay though,, great training using the sound slice which i like a lot! learning the licks and hybrid is fine with this too!
Hey Brian, this is amazing. I’ve been listening to your lessons for several years now, trying to keep up with my brother. This one might be my all time fav, and I just thought it was about time I said THANK YOU for the great lessons. School’s out for summer, so I’m planning on more guitar time. Thanks for the continual inspiration.
Thank you Sandy – I really appreciate that 🙂
Today, I nailed it!! Zero mistakes and I played it at least 12 times straight!! Took me a long time but this is one of my favorite lessons. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
man, you play great!
This is great. What an awesome opening lick.