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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll have a jam session with yourself by playing both the “call” and “response” parts of this acoustic blues shuffle composition. This isn’t your typical 1, 4, 5 chord progression. You’ll learn how to alternate between the 1 and the 5 chord, which is relatively easy to do and sounds great.
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Hi Brian,
It’s so neat to see another acoustic composition. Some of us just naturally gravitate to these ones. This one seems a little challenging so I’m looking forward to learning it this weekend.
Best,
Dan
You and Mr. Martin sound great! This will be a good week. Thanks Brian
Brian, you’re incredible! Thank you for another great lesson
We Will enjoy getting this under way thanks Brian JohnStrat
Love it !!!
Just starting lesson 243. I’ll take a look at your lessons and have a think about the premium membership. I like your teaching style. I’ve been playing for thirty plus years and now I want to ramp up my proficiency.
Thanks for the free lessons.
Just curious as to what model Martin guitar you’re playing in lesson 243?
Looking forward to the advance lessons, ten dollars a month seems more than fair. Thanks again, Paul 🙂
It’s a Martin CEO-7
Premium membership is great!
G/day Brian,
Just excellent work as usual!
M.J.
This is a cracker Brian…. Lots of interesting licks and fills to learn.
Just one problem… I’m practicing previous lessons so much that my finger tips get really sore, and I’ve been playing for 50 years!
Another great lesson Brian. I am away from home for a month with no guitar😕 But still feel the need to go to your lessons every day!! Will have a lot of catching up to do when I get home!! If you feel like taking a break, you have my permission. Lol 😀
Thanks Maestro!
Sound excellent!
Thanks Brian!
I really love those tid bits you add in such as wrong note in 11:45 in part 1.For me this adds to my ability to create my own riff.
Great lesson Brian, and a very pleasant melody too.
Thanks
Ray P
great lesson ! thanks again, cheers from Belgium
Lots of great stuff here Brian. Can’t wat to get going on it!
Brain I frequently have a great deal of trouble getting the premium part to play after logging in on my iPad ? Any suggestions
David, try either clearing your browser cache and restarting your browser on your ipad – or try downloading Google Chrome browser on it and using that.
David, some times I have the same trouble with my IPad. What I do is change the screen quality down to about 360 and it works fine.
This is the stuff I love to play.
Great lesson
Thanks Brian
Another great lesson .
Challenging !!
Thanks Brian .
Joe.
Brian, that B7 chord, how does it come about, i.e. it sounds right transitioning from the 1 chord to the 5 chord, is it due to it being 5 chord of the E (blues) scale that makes it work? (Given that B is the second note of the A major scale and that chord would be minor.)
It’s basically considered a MAJOR 2 chord. So you’re right, the 2 chord is typically minor, but in the number system, this would be described as a major 2
Brian, I am away from home a lot, so I carry my Washburn Rover with me. I thoroughly enjoy your lessons each week. This one is particularly fun.
Keep up the good work.
Dan
Great tuition and just loving this website!
Brian, I look forward to seeing the videos each week. This has helped me greatly in getting recommitted to playing. I had stopped playing for many years. I especially love the blues shuffle material like this one. Thanks again.
Best,
Dave M
I was just wondering what model Martin guitar you are playing in this video.? Beautiful guitar!
Inspired! No other word covers it . I haven’t watched the instruction part yet but to me it is a beautiful well-composed and well-executed piece of music .
Just watched it again after nine months and I had exactly the same feeling about the music and Brian’s lesson. Inspired! How does he do it!
Hey Brian, I like this lesson more and more as I work with it. The trickiest thing for me is the timing in a few spots but I’already close playing it slow. Anyone aware of any songs with this progression?
Great lesson, Brian! Really helpful!
Brilliant as always! Thanks Brian
Excellent Lesson Brian. Love the solo jam lessons. Been subscribed to your YouTube channel for awhile. Just bought a year’s subscription last night and love it. I am traveling for work and have my Ovation and just started work on this lesson last night. You really make it easy to learn and add a very nice twist on the normal blues progressions. Keep up the fantastic work. -Rich.
Absolutely love this song! Hopefully i can be as smooth as you one day!
Very nice Brian, once again.
I’ve been working my way through the “stand alone” acoustic lessons and have thoroughly enjoyed them, thanks.
Really tasty arrangement. I like to work from a printed page, can I get a pdf file of the song?
nice groove brian
Brian, You where right on about the shuffle( Just the power E) Love the E to A grove on the shuffle with the B string thrown in. Thank you.
Sorry Brian, I meant to say Power A and love the A to D grove.
Hi Brian. I am very glad to hear you have spent time with your family that’s great idea.This is one of my favorite Blues shuffle lesson and i also play it with classic Guitar sometimes as it so difficult but my friends say “fantastic sounds” By the way, thanks a lot.
Wish you and your family best hours
Imi
Hi Brian !
I’m really enjoying working on this piece. You play it so well that it looks easy but it takes quite some practice to get it wright.
Thanks !
Ben
This is one of my favorite lessons untill now like others : muddy waters EP213 and acoustic blues in A EP208 … this is what I´m looking foward to achieve that powerful sound on my guitar …
This one sounds like a modern classic blues on acoustic guitar and the kind of updated blues on a electric guitar with overdrive on it … Thanks for this lesson
Brian…
Isn’t Part 1/11:32, the “wrong note” the so-called “blue note” of the pentatonic scale? Seems straight from the blues lesson from way back, no?
J. in CO
that is what i was thinking, but maybe it is not a blue note when playing major scale ?
Man, you are a gift.
Always great !
There are some incredibly cool licks in this piece. A lot would make great endings to a song like It Takes a Lot to Laugh, but It Takes a Train to Cry.
I like that the A major scale 1,2,5,6 open strings are in the scale. I think it should be said something I recently learned the a major scale song you can use both the major and minor scales. But, if it is a minor scales song that using anything major won’t sound good