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In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a blues lead along on top of a piano backing track. It can be great practice (and fun) to strip music down to it’s rawest form and try to play something that is interesting and complementary to the other instrument. This style of playing forces you to be on your toes, and leaves less room for error. It also forces you to really listen and to develop interesting leads and fills.
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Hi Brian,
Its about bed time here in the UK but just listened to this new lesson. It will really prove an interesting lesson to accomplish.. Last weeks lesson is still keeping me busy so much great stuff to practice and learn
Thanks
JohnStrat
I learn so much from your lessons and am getting better every week.
Thank you,
Michael
just a beautiful lesson *****
Great lesson Brian, theres a lot of Reggie Young sounding licks in there.
Beautiful music plus a wealth of information – all I could ask for! Moved right to the top of my list. Thanks for putting together yet another phantastic weekly, Brian.
Steve Cropper…….definitely hear Steve’s influence here…….nice variant from last week’s great acoustic lesson! Brian, it is so important to mix things up. As you keep reminding us during your lessons it’s vital to be well rounded on any instrument……….from rhythm playing or soloing or acoustic and then stretch ourselves into our very own inventive style.
Jim C.
Brian,
This will be as much fun to improvise on as that Warren Haynes thing.
Do you have anything to share regarding the piano part? Music score etc.
tnx,
Gampa Doug
The piano chords are pretty simple. G, D, G, D (repeated in the first part with a D in the bass). Then, G, A, Bm, C for the second part.
Love the sound of this one, Brian. Can’t wait to learn it. Also, nice shirt 🙂
Awesome lesson, started my Saturday morning with it….great themes in there, really conducive to adding more fills…..Thanks Brian!!
Thank you. Bit of Major/Minor, bit of John Mayer double stops and when I started fiddling around something a bit like Amazing Grace popped out.
Great stuff.
Double stops and mixing major and minor pentatonic scales (playing in the box) I like the easy melodic playing too.. It is nice the harmonizing two strings are simply termed double stops.. nice to know the D explained in the A position but a really brief explanation would benefit newbies understanding the caged system shapes . great job Brian really enjoy your genre of music!
I am really enjoying this lesson and track to improvise on. The clean simple backing track forces you to have a good sound and timing to make it musical
YES!!! Nice one. I like these slow bluesy ones!
Thank you, Brian! Great sound, lots of worthwhile moves here.
Yet another outstanding piece Brian, such a smooth melody, & laid back feel, …….. Truly superb! Week upon week I am so glad I signed up to you lessons Brian, a true inspiration & gifted teacher!
The frightening part is I’m starting to understand “when these things come from.” For me, that’s a really important part of the lesson. I know it takes longer to get through the lesson when you have to explain the source BUT it’s terrific to know about the source so, as you say, we can use it in other places (not just to play the lesson piece). There could not be a better teaching strategy for those of us trying to lean new things.
Great lesson Brian. I’m new, but this is the one I am going for first !
Beautiful. Fairly simple but o so sweet, gotta love a slow blues,keep em coming please Brian.
What I get out of these lessons, are ideas. I watch and listen then put my own spin on them. I find that if you follow note for note parrot fashion you’ll never get anywhere. I certainly have got some good ideas from them. Keep it up Brian.
What I get out of these lessons, are ideas. I watch and listen then put my own spin on them. I find that if you follow note for note parrot fashion you’ll never get anywhere. I certainly have got some good ideas from them. Keep it up Brian.
That’s it man. Doing your own thing with them is what it’s all about. Glad to hear that you’re spinning them in a different direction.
I hear this style working well with stuff like Rod Stewarts “People get Ready” and even with Dolly Parton “Shameless”.
Just signed up for premium, and I love the part of the lesson at the bottom where the video and notes (as well as tableture) are all synced as you play. Very easy to follow…
Hi Brian. Great lessons , keep the explanation part of the lesson going, as it important to understand why notes and scales work together thank. You. Colm
Really good one Brian
Hello Brian,
I love your new site! This is the best one online! Period!! Especially the slow-down tool is GREAT!!!
Greetings from the Netherlands.
Sjaak
Hi Brian, thanks for the great lesson. Sounds a lot like something Vince Gill would do. I sure would appreciate more of this style.
Excellent lesson. I found that as I was listening to you I was translating your barre chord information straight back into positions. “Of course those notes work, they’re in position 2.” In most of your lessons I’ve done you’ve focussed on positions but in this one you were completely focussed on barres.
Is there a reason? Is it just a matter of individuality: “some people think in barres some people think in positions”?
I have to admit that I don’t do a lot of the rhythm lessons. Is is that in the rhythm lessons it’s better to think in terms of barres?
I have been looking for a good piano accompaniment lesson! Thank you so much! Saw the first half on youtube and immediately bought a subscription to your site!
Brian, this is really an excellent lesson and as always, your explanation is incredibly helpful. I am probably an eternal beginner/early intermediate level player, but with this one, I really feel that I can play something (and that is progress..). I was hoping that perhaps you could do another lesson that extends this one? Ie. where else can you take this to develop the piece further? Thanks again for a great lesson.
Hey! Love this lesson as I do all of them. I was just wondering if you happened to have the sheet music for the piano that is also playing in this track?
Just played my wife this, Its the next peice I want to learn, your tone and playing was just beautiful, my wife had a wee tear in her eye by the end of it, which says it all really.
Well done Brian, I’ve never been so inspired to start playing again….Cheers
Dougie
Just love this.
I am still new to the guitar so am concentrating on the beginner’s material at present but this is exactly why I want to learn to play this beautiful instrument.
Thank you for the inspiration!
Great lesson thanks Brian
What a great score nice explanation of the double stops and where they come from .. Dancing around with partial chords is great fun the second section is also very moving .