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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a slow blues lead on electric guitar (although you could also do this on acoustic), that doesn’t need a jam track. You’ll be playing in the key of the song for this one, as opposed to “playing the chord changes”.
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Love this laid back blues, Starting on it now,
Thanks Brian
There you go again; theory and practical. Brilliant! More blues please
I absolutely love me some slow blues! These are my favorite lessons! Thank you brian.
Just what I’ve been waiting on. Goes along well with the last 2 lessons to create your own verses to this.
Definitely worth the price of admission!🎶
Bar 9…very cool turnaround. Love slow stand alone blues.
Many thanks from Thailand.
Brian
This is a great idea for a lesson and a very nice one too.
JohnStrat
Brilliant Brian! I too favor stand alone lessons.. this is another classic ingredient improvisation.. man that es 335 dot hot pick-ups and the amp with that kemper sound audio perfect just the right setting touches !! very very nice!
,, I have to start learning how to use my 15 watt black heart class A tube amp.. I have a few stomp pedals in their boxes,, have to get them out learn how to use them too
just so many Am guitar lessons both electric and acoustic.. easy to get glued to any these lessons.. this is an excellent intro lesson as any !
Nice Bluesy Lesson. Fun to listen to and fun to play.
Thanks Brian
Ray P
Brain,
Week after week you bring out these wonderful informative lessons. What a musical influence you are in my journey. Thanks for your dedication.
Jim M
Great lesson Brian (as usual)! These blue lessons are my favorites along with a lot of other subscribers I’m sure! Your tone on this one is superb (it always is but this one really stands out).
Any chance on letting us in on your Kemper and guitar settings? Sure would appreciate it! BTW, you tone was great before the Kemper as well!
Thanks for the lessons, God Bless!
Jeef W
That’s a Matchless amp profile – overdrive at about 30%
Thanks very much Brian! I appreciate all you do and your approach to helping us out here,
Jeff W
Hi Brian,
Is that a 2 x 12 cab you are running the kemper through? Your sound seems to have alot more crisp and deep bass than my 2 x 10 .
Albert
Thanks Brian. That’s a great sound, and after the last 2 weeks you completely switch tack to keep the lessons and learning, as always, fresh and interesting.
Hi Brian, that’s fantastic! What helps a lot is also the caged chord shape as well as the apergio knowledge in addition to the pentatonic positions… The difficult part in this type of training is for me the right timing… When to play the open chords… I keep working on this. Anyway I am looking forward for more of this type of slow blues lessons…
This stuff always works for me ! Thanks for another gem !
Hello Brian your Gibson is a Satin ES-335 or a figured 60S ES-335.
“Primitive and simple”. Perfect for me Brian. Keep these blues lessons coming!
Great lesson, as always; thanks!
Really Nice Brian, as usual !
You talked about the way you just sit around and start jamming, that just makes me more curious and I was thinking how does he do it, how does that happen ? Because in your videos, plans and patterns are already well made but I guess it takes some time to think about it and tries to perfect it and eventually you only include the conclusions of this work in your videos.
Do you think you could one day record a kind of “raw” or “making of” or “live jam” video of you creating those really nice riff with the narrator voice explaining in “real-time” your thinking process?
Thanks !
That one’s one of my faves by you Brian. . .more like this one please. Thank you and keep up the good work.
PS: Still waiting for your rendering of Clapton’s Driftin’ Blues.
So it’s 8 bar blues which are not really ridged in the progression, if I understand. Didn’t lay out the progression but it’s the obvious key to what you’re thinking, how you resolve…if I’m correct. I think. Lol.
I really enjoy these lessons. Stand alone blues and blues rock. Thanks.
Brian, just renewed by membership for the third year. All your lessons are great. This one is certainly “worth the price of admission”.
I am sorry but i try to play it in loop, somebody could help me to find exactly where i have to stop (to play this song in loop) ( sorry for my bad english)
hi I dont seem to be able to loop parts of the tab- When I try to loop a section the cursor automatically jumps to the last bar. I am sure you can do something about this 🙂
Use a different browser (Google Chrome or Firefox) – Microsoft browsers have issues with that feature for some reason.
thx it does the trick. 😉
Brian, listening now just came back from a week no guitar lol.. you man are a weekly encyclopedia of this style.. so much have I learned from your weekly instructional..anyway, I’ll keep trying as usual lol
This is some bad assed blues riffs Brian. I sure hope I run into you one of these times at Carter or Ghrun. These lessons are the best on the internet.
Great lesson Brian. I started it on Friday and I have it down with a few little variations. Its amazing how you male any guitar sound great. I had a 335 just like that and I sold it because I couldn’t work with it. Now I almost regret selling it. But it works great on my Les Paul.
Great lesson, Brian. My first one since becoming a member. Hey – the tablature says 60 BPM, i count more like 74 for the full-speed version.
I’ve been working this for a wile and absolutely invest it it’s helped strengthen my fingers, and also working on 366 and loving that as well 💕💕💕💕🎶💃🎶💃