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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a Western Swing / jazz style lead over the chord changes. I’ll explain where the notes come from so that you can understand how to improvise in this style. The MP3 jam track is available in multiple tempos.
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Thrilling to the bone! Gonna get started on this sweet little ditty right now. Fun Stuff!
Nicely done
Hi Brian,
Just FYI. You have the wrong sound tracks up for this lesson. They are the same tracks as from EP320.
Thanks Dennis – fixed!
Another great lesson , thanks Brian. I love that shift from the Bflat to the Bflat major 7. More jazzy stuff please.
great lesson .thanks brian. wrong sound tracks mp3
Thanks for the heads up – I’ve corrected this!
Nice one Brian 😀 Love that Guitar
Don’t know if anyone else is having same problem, but I cannot see the Tab Viewer properly 🙁
Send me an email to support – click on “Contact” in the footer… so I can help you troubleshoot
I am new premium member just last week started. Am really happy to follow these lessons and improve my playing. My dumb question is can the mp3 tracks be loaded onto my phone to play along with or should I get a tablet or lap top. I have a android Samsung phone.thx
HI Brian , what kind of strings do you like to play on this Gibson125. I have the same guitar but use heavy jazz strings , maybe change to 11s or something I ques?
Floris , Amsterdam
They are 11 gauge
I love learning new licks around chord shapes and new lick ideas to use in other blues progressions. Doesn’t matter what genre you choose to highlight, there are always great takeaways. Thanks, Brian, and Happy Birthday again.
John
Well said, John. I wouldn’t normally search for Western Swing, but watching the lesson this morning I detected a number of nuggets I am sure will be very usable in other music styles, too. Also, it’s a very nice and mellow composition. I am looking forward to playing it.
Fantastic tune! I’m currently sidelined with tendonitis in my left arm – a little splinter in the butt sliding down the bannister of life but I’m looking forward to doing everything I can to learn this one. Thanks Brian.
Your arrangements are always very good, but you’ve knocked it out of the park with this one, Brian. Great work! More Western Swing, please!!
Thanks Brian, out of all your great lessons this is my favourite so far. Excellent.
Great lesson Brian. Are you using a little echo on that?
Just reverb – no echo
Thanks Brian for another great tune to learn. Is there some reason you are labeling the D# chord as D# instead of E flat?
Happy Birthday Brian.
Man, that is PROFESSIONAL level playing (andj composing). Very inspiring. And happy B-day young fella, many many more.
This is a really cool lesson Brian! I love the way it starts country and develops that jazzy feel with some nice runs and chord changes. You are batting 1000 with these lessons!
Great Lesson. Thanks Brian. I love Swing and the Blues.
I would love a vid where you show your guitars and gear ect, maybe some tone tutorials..really struggling with that. thanks
Hey Brian,great sound and thanks for the jam track,how about sound like that with some beep bob,some dancing sound. I love your work keep on thank again.
Another great lesson
I just came home and watched this, man that guitar es125 looks and sounds so broken in,, amazing tones and perfect for this session/composition.. really such fun following each week Brian thanks man,, you do 5 stars for me every week
You are cooking with gas Brian! Really understanding how you teach chord progression/structure of the chords and the scales used here to get the jazz blues country licks demonstrated.. can’t wait to follow to follow along with the sound cloud but first want to watch this terrific video intro a few more times .. a lot here in part one!
Hey Brian, I really am happy to have found you. You’re an awesome player and what you have to offer is just what I need to get out of my current state of playing and limitations. I do want to note that the fourth in Bb is Eb, not D#. That’s gonna confuse a lot of people. Unless, of course, I’m missing something here. Otherwise, thanks for all your hard work. I sincerely appreciate it.
– Jon
Exactly…if you’re in Bb, you’re playing flats….
Could this be played in it’s entirety using the 1, 4 and 5 (Bb, D#, F)?
slow version- don’t know if you caught it- but that is the intro to I FALL TO PIECES by PATSY KLINE!
Beautifully done, yes on the Pasty Kline, country artists share. Brian love the tune, I think it’s important to point out to your students that the IV chord in Bb is Eb, as there are 2 flats in the key signature, Bb and Eb
I really like this lesson and composition. Really, really good. However I am having a problem- when I comp along it goes perfect to the end and then at measure 28 ( F7 to Bflat) I go to the top and try to start all over but the soundtrack does something different from the sheet music, NO?
Listen to the audio version WITH guitar and you’ll hear how it repeats.. i do it in the beginning of the Part 1 video as well
Should there be a repeat sign at the beginning of measure 5?
You have got to do a part 2. That last turnaround is crying out for it. Good idea moving away from E and A.
That is really different from the lessons I have seen so far from you. Really cool.
Also I have an idea. It would be great if you can someday make a video and present and talk a little bit about your guitars, that would be very interesting. Please?
Thanks Brian. Perhaps I dont have as strong of an ear but I’m really trying to lay concepts on the rhythm. Any chance you can show how the rhythm progresses so I can switch back and forth and really embed the concepts?
Been working on this for a week now, with a little more practice I will have it down-pat. You are an amazing instructor, glad I signed up for the premium lessons.
Thanks Brian…
Doyle
It would be a nice Christmas song!
Just brilliant, Brian. Your ES-125 brings me back to my High School days, where a met a kid carrying around an ES-225T. I had a Lyle Dove knockoff that he traded me for the Gibson. The next day he brought the Lyle back and said his dad thought I was nuts to trade the Lyle Dove for the Gibson. I assured him that I was in my right mind. I played that ES-225T through my teens and twenties.