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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a bluesy, Tex-Mex style rhythm and lead on electric guitar. Lots of rhythm and lead ideas that you can pull from this lesson and apply to just about any style.
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Quite cool! Im loving this one too and can’t wait to get this one down . Thanks Brian
Great lesson. You are aware that I am a rockabilly fan. This song rocks and is right up there with my favorite kind of music.
wow really cool is right! ..just checked this out and looking forward to this lesson it sure sounds fun to play too! Agree surf /rockabilly tex mex mix lol
Sounds great Brian! Will get into this soon.
Better make very, very certain your guitar is perfectly tuned for playing this one!! Jim C.
Great, sounds like the Mavericks to me.
Thanks Brian.
Time to settle into my Adobe Hacienda and practice this one.
Thank you Brian! Beautiful major sound, not something I aspire to, but man it’s pretty. maybe someday!
Live bass? I love the string sound!
Yep – played on a fender Jazz
Another great lesson full of cool stuff I need to learn. Also reminded me of Ritcthie Valens. This site is worth a lifetime membership, just for all of the lessons in the Key of E!
SF
Did you know that 1 in 5 people in Mexico plays the guitar? I found that fascinating when i first heard it. I always loved the Mexican culture and people but that bit of news really made me love them! Anyway, another great rhythm lesson Brian. Your right hand technique is so precise. It is something i’m really concentrating on now…making sure i articulate each note as precisely as possible.
Great lesson Brian,
Fun to listen to and play. A quick comment on the “Word Police” regarding the word parasite. I don’t understand why you can’t express yourself without all these silly Monday Quarterbacks commenting. Oh well next time use “chord cousins” instead of parasites. Who knows, maybe some relative minors will join in. LOL
Ray P
Hi Brian, that octave play on B (5:00mn), I think you used that technic in EP181 (Zydeco), over the E
same as jerry Garcia, didn’t use open strings or a capo. another fun lesson!
Really enjoy the groove in this song.
Love this composition, there’s so much to learn, so much to takeaway.
However, for me the ‘bluegrass’ run at the start of the second video works better if I don’t use the open strings, i.e., pinky on the E second string and ring finger on the B third string for the main run. This approach also results in a moveable riff.
Brian
A couple of observations and/or comments. Your RCA dog in the background sure looks emancipated, maybe you should put a small dog bowl in front of him to give the appearance that he is feeding and being well cared for? Ha-ha. Secondly, your opening single notes sound terrible with that alleged fret buzzing going on. That always makes me cringe when I hear that noise in my own playing. But, all in all, a very nice lesson for anyone who cares to step outside of the blues arena, but unfortunately, I am lost in the more traditional blues and find my enjoyment and comfort firmly anchored there.
Just beautiful!!
Brian I love the variety of your fantastic lessons and the fact that you explain the reason things work giving us loads of ‘take-aways’. I feel my playing progress is really accelerating since signing up with AM. I’m loving diving into the back catalogue of lessons too!
Can I also complement you on the layout of the website- it’s so clear, easy to navigate and a joy to use!
Thanks for everything!
Cheers,
Mike (from North Yorkshire, UK)
Wow! A kinda feel-good song! Love playing it. I get stuck in the blues groove a lot; I can hear a few Santanaesque licks here and there. Thanks!
Dear Brian, I am now member in your course for 2 years and it is high on time to say thank you and tell you, how much fun, improvement and understanding in playing guitar you gave to me. Your concept is absolutely unique and genious, teaching riffs and techniques that can be applied to other keys and melodies/chords as well as it is a beautiful stand alone composition. I admire, how you can come up week for week with great new lessons and compositions plus the backtracks and Pdf-sheets and all the other helpful stuff. Your music taste is just what I like, a good mixture of country(rock), blues, vintage rhythmns enriched with Mowtown and other great styles, Lead and Rhythmn playing. You also adjust the grade of difficulties always right, so that it needs some struggle but stilllets me come up with it in the end succesful. Meanwhile I am not only learning new songs much faster and easier, I am able to play some of your songs that I thought I never will. Plus I can apply in creating own solos. Thanks, my teacher
hey no parasites! this is not science class- ee u grossing everybodyout! LOL ..just kidding man!..explain it anyway u want- just keep em coming.;good lesson
love th e e major run with bend and the triplets..very usuable
thanks
That’s great Brian! I can’t wait to dig in to this. You must have gone to see the Mavericks the other night at the Ryman!
That octave thing comes from the solo George Harrison does in the Beatles tune “I’m Down!” Then he walks it up to the 4 chord. Check it out!
60 now and finally making the time, your lessons are so good Brian, I can’t help progressing in kangaroo leaps and bounds – thanks.
man I love this lesson,, i just need to get back on this,,very very cool man!
Muy grande Brian, con estos “licks” me hago el Rey del ensayo!
If in Tex Mex style we go from I to V and we break up with IV, ¿How many beats we can put between them 15th?
That little octave riff reminds me of the start of a version of Jingle Bells, just before the opening line, “Dashing through the snow.”
John
This style checks all the boxes for me. I can’t wait to get started on it. It’ll be a real crowd pleaser at my place. Thanks for adding this lesson.
Does anyone know the name of the song Brian is playing? Or a song that fits the style Brian is playing?