This is a very cool lesson.  Fairly simple but still sounds supremely cool.  I’m likin’ this site more and more everytime I visit.  Thanks for taking the time to post so many great free lessons.  I really helps lousy guitar players like me.  :o)

Thanks StratoBlaster (cool name too btw) - I’m glad you’re enjoying.. and don’t worry, we were all lousy guitar players at one time and there are more days than not that I feel like a lousy player too.  It all depends on who you’re comparing yourself against   Keep at it!

-brian

Brian, great lessons and teaching style.  Thanks for the backing tracks as well!  Really helps bring the lessons to life.  I am really getting into playing blues and your site is making a big difference!!!!!!

Gretschblues - cool name by the way.  I’ll assume you’re a Chet fan as well?  Glad to hear that the backing tracks are useful.  I started including those because 1) they’re fun to record and 2) I first learned to play by listening to this “Play Guitar With the Ventures” album that my dad had.  It had all of the parts minus the part that you were to fill in (basically just jam tracks) but I remember that being an awesome way to learn.

Nice tone! Bluesy, nice clean riff w/chords. Time for more blisters

Hey Brian….Your lessons are great and I really like how you cover rhythm even with-in lessons that are “LEAD” orintated like this one.
Well done and please continue to post Blues Rhythm Lessons!!!!

Peace

Sorry for the second post…...If I may, how would you “TURN” this back around to the I chord?

Thanks

@ DogBoneDavis - Not sure I understand your question?

Sorry Brian…...I guess I am asking you what turn around you would use to get back to the I chord (A) after playing through the progression and starting back at the top…....or is a turn around even needed here???

Hope that helps

Great Lesson
Thanks

Sent an email earlier.  As a new student, I thorougly enjoy your website, and particularly this tune.  thank you

Nice lesson thanks!!

great!!!

Following the Tablature along with the lesson are the notes somewhat upside Down after the first two bars???

I’ve been working on Johnny b Goode which contains a lot of what is being doing in here, compliments each other nicely! Thanks for the lesson, great stuff!

It’s hard to find stuff that sounds really good for solo electric guitar, so this is really appreciated! Mostly I’ve been playing finger-picking acoustic blues, which really doesn’t travel well to electric.  Plus my plectrum technique is weak. More like this would be fabulous. 

Much of the beauty of your playing is related to touch, dynamics, grace notes, muting, etc. 

Would it be possible to do a follow-up lesson on that?  Same song, but pausing to discuss those subtler elements, and assume that people already have the basic fingering under control.

thanx for your great site you have a wonderful way of getting the stuff across i by chance discovered your site i have not played for years now i am excited about playing. i just wanted to let you know. i live in a remote part of australia and enjoying playing the blues using your methods.    when are you going to post somemore stuff?  dane

Great site & lessons, Brian.
After 40 years of playing, and a couple of months of actually studying properly, i.e. waching and following these vids, I think I’m finally getting somewhere. 8-)

Brian, you are best teacher ever!. I am back after break of 25 years. With you I am on the real way to play again
Thank you!
Regards from Serbia

please tell me what gear you are using to get this tone. I have Am std strat and hot rod deluxe and would love to get a tone like this.

thanks

steve

Thanks for the lesson and for this great site. This is the best guitar resource on the Internet.

You really are a very good teacher Brian.

Hello Brian
Great site and very good lessons. I know this is a Blues Lessons site, but I would like to see more Rock-a-Billy stuff (Blues and Country mixture)like Chuck Berry, Carl Perkins, Fat’s Domino, Little Richard.
Thanks
Ray C
PS: I have been playing rythum guitar for 25 years. I played Bass in a country rock and roll band for 10 years. I’m not wanting to be in another band (to much work and I have a regular job). I would just like to learn to pick some simple old rock and roll music.

Thanks Brian,
Very cool and fun lesson, this is exactly the style I want to learn. Can you do some more like this, with bass and rhythm mixed with the lead. Maybe in a rock style?
We are all so demanding. But you have a great site and I really enjoy your lessons.

Sweet riff…someday I hope to play it with the same feel as Brian

@Tolly - Just keep practicing.. trust me if I can play this stuff anyone can!

Thanks Brian!  It’s great that a rhythm track is needed for this and it still sounds cool.

*isn’t* needed =P

that’s similar to “All your love” of Magic Sam…
Thanks for the lesson.

Lol this song reminds me of Little wing By Jimi Hendrix. You should make a lesson on that song. Its actually very similar to this. I don’t mean with just the sound either… I know how to play part of it so some of the cord progressions are a little bit the same, and its a great song to play!

Brian,

The rhythm lessons are terrific.

Excellent lessons Brian. So much bull out there but your lessons are completely down to earth and the most practical I’ve ever seen. Fantastic insight and approach that I’ve never seen before - keep it up! Maybe some day get some Billy Gibbons material on here! (ZZ_Man)

Brian,

    Thank you for the great lessons! This one reminds me of Magic Sam’s classic West Side Soul album.  You’re a great source of inspiration as well as ideas.

R

Brian,
Excellant lesson, keep up the good work.

Rick

Been a while for me this past year - recovering from several surgeries and on the mend , this is a cool lesson thanks Brian

Hurricane Ramon

@Hurricane - Hey Hurricane, sorry I missed this!  Sorry to hear that you’ve had several surgeries, hopefully nothing that’s kept you from picking your guitar (or playing your harp).  Glad to have you back my friend.

Thanks Brian here’s to no more of them too ! I’m on the mend and yeah , if it wasn’t form my practicing on guitar I would probably be nuts by now Music has always in one way on another been a therapeutic thang for me since I was a kid .

Just took down :

” When I Fall In Love ” transposing from Eb to C and wow what a beauty !

Also revisited the song written by Edan Abba ( rest his soul he was a very good friend ):

” Nature Boy ” ( Em )

and the classic song sung by Nat King Cole :

” Unforgettable ”
I have been working and reworking Little Anthony’s ( from Little Antony And The Imperials ) ” Hurts So Bad ” . It’s masterful example of Major 6ths to be sure .

I practice lately mostly on my nylon but I do( and will do on the newer ones ) play these on my steel string Washburn .

Have plans to record When I Fall In Love ( you know the Disney tune ) with my nylon and steel and then have a PBass track and then add my electric and midi voicings to this and have my sister ( mezzo soprano ) do the female part and then bring this over to my friend Chan Romero to sing the male verse . I need the vocalist’s phrasings to realize how to do the lead work for the electric guitar and the chromatic harmonica tracks since I try to

” sound off the vocal phrasings in a kind of copy and respond ”

type arrangement .

I haven’t thought on the percussion part yet but that’s not an issue .

It seems I have been always a kind of natural metronome kind of person , don’t know why and can’t explain it , it’s just that way with me . When I do a duet I still get dancers on the floor with out drum tracks

I use this type of playing when I do live shows when I am stuck up right in front and close to the singer(s), it’s my attempt to give the musical instrument a human elemental sound ( or as close as I can ), started doing this in the mid 70s .

I think it’s one of the most important and elemental parts of my musical ” thumbprint / style ” .

Now lately I have been at it developing this type of musical arrangement in my guitar presentation heh heh I love it . 

Easy man .

Sincerely :

Hurricane Ramon

@ Hurricane - I’d love to hear that recording of When I Fall In Love when you finish it.  Can you post it on the forum here?  or if you don’t want to do that, just send me an email brian (at) activemelody (dot) com.

Also, so you knew the guy that wrote Nature Boy?  That’s VERY cool

Hi Brian,

My thanks are long overdue for your teaching skills and for the licks that you have posted.  I had been playing acoustic blues/folk guitar for many years until my wife kindly offered me an electric guitar a couple of months ago.  I realised that I had to rethink my style.  Whilst looking for some Chuck Berry-type licks, I stumbled upon your site and I just want to say that it is brilliant!  The way you teach has been motivating and inspiring; showing me that lead-playing can be possible.

Please continue the good work.

Best wishes,
Barbecue Bob.

Fantastic lesson. This is the best lesson I have ever had. For a beginner with limited knowledge on timing and following backing tracks. This lesson gave me a sense of purpose,I played your lesson lots of times and finally it all clicked. Maybe you should consider doing a series of thes slow blues with and without backing tracks and sell them for beginners. I have purchased lots of online lessons but I keep coming back to your lessons. Beautiful video ,excellent tab and backing tracks and easy to follow teaching style and friendly advice.  I have waited to purchase a lessons from you but the jimmy Hendrix is a little too advanced at the moment . Thank for your fantastic service and I would say you are the best in the business keep up the super work you are doing.  Ps ready to purchase any beginner lesson when they are available.  Cheers Dennis.

Hi Brian,

thanks for your lessons; are amazing and you are a great teacher.
Thanks for what you’re doing and I hope you go ahead

looks good on paper but.. beyond me. I know i could do this w/enough repitition but i’d be missing the big picture. I sure wish i knew music theory better…  aaarrrrrgggg!

I’ve tried incorporating finger sty;e into a couple new songs i’m learning; that is ; Seven Spanish Angels( Ray Charles’ style) and Father and Son : Cat Stevens. Wanted to learn ‘Father and Son’ for my sons’ BD but am still working on it.I’m still choppy and uncertain w/it but gettin better!:)

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I was trying to get my fingers back in shape after a time off. Iplayed till my fingers hurt then i played through the pain, now my 2nd finger on my left fretin hand is numb. It causes me to miss my mark and i hav to look where i’m going. What to do…!  :(

Hi Brian,
        Another great lesson-Really appreciate your teaching style.Like the laid back playing of this blues number,being a big fan of Eric Clapton and Peter Green this fits into the sound I am after.
I play an american strat with texas special p-ups which I find overly bright,what does your strat have ? Toying with changing mine to vintage noisless that the Clapton signiture strat has .Any ideas ?

      Thanks again for lesson .
          Cheers mate -Glyn

Oh hell yes!  Great lesson, Brian!  Ta!

Brian what is the secret on the long strech bar coards when the endex and the ring finger are so fare apart? Was a Bass player for 13yr got a lot of bad habits to over come. Your a Great teacher. Ken

@18ken97 - honestly I’m not good at long stretches.. i stay away from them.  I have a bent pinky on my left hand which prevents me from making any long stretches.

Brian,

Great teaching style and a great lesson.  Has me jamming right off the git-go.  Liking your site more and more.

Love the lessons, Brian, but how ‘bout some new, “beginner” rhythm or solo stuff?  For example, I LOVE the blues rhythm guitar lesson up above but it’s over my head. :(

Brian,

Great lesson.  However, can you tell me why it is called “in the key of A minor?”

Hi Brain Another fantastic lesson ( Double stops ). PS your Hendrix lesson was fantastic, Any news on further in depth lessons like your Hendrix lesson best $7 I have ever spent .maybe a Beatles lesson or a CCR lesson or even a Santana lesson ( just a thought . The best Guitar lesson website in my fumble opinion. Thanks A million for all your lessons ,Jam tracks and PDFS. Cheers Dennis From Australia

Chalk up another winning lesson!  This one dovetails very nicely with your most recent ‘Blues rhythm & Lead’ lesson. I’m finding this very useful to give me a more ‘joined-up’ understanding of the fret-board.
Can’t wait to show-off my new skills to my friends!
Pete.

This is one of my favorite lessons, thanks so much dude!

Chris