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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a solo ragtime acoustic blues composition (no jam track required). Each lick will be explained and related back to familiar chord positions.
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There’s a lot of great stuff in this lesson and I can’t wait to learn it! Thanks Brian
Good lesson🤗🤗🤗
Great thought provoking arrangement.
Yes lot to take away and then assimilate into my playing
Wow, this is great! I will enjoy this lesson for a while. Thank you.
Hi, Brian,
Another excellent lesson….I love playing your ragtime tunes! Thank you!
And yes, thanks for the theory as well.
Bob
Wonderful lesson on playing the chord changes.
Great lesson, thank you!
more and more melodic sweetness; active melody has totally earned its claim to fame!
Makes me smile. Bessie would have been proud!
A+ Brian – Thanks!
Love the Ragtime lessons. Might be a little Les Paul or Chet Atkins in the G to F#?
Really enjoyed learning this song. Nice tune Brian!
Thanks, tanks and thanks again.. while trying to learn this .. I became HAPPY…. kinda why I joined .
Thanks – really great explanation Brian
Another good lesson with some juicy licks. Thanks for the great variety of materials you put together for us!
Great lesson and chord arrangements. Love the story telling and anecdotes too, thanks for sharing
Love these ‘Ragtime’ lessons, Brian. Great job explaining the chord structure behind it. I’m going to play this one finger style.
A great lesson Brian, lots of great ideas on how to use the pinky too. 🙂
Love the ragtime ! So much to learn. Keep them coming Brian, time and again. You are a great teacher, so inspiring week after week. Also , Pse don’t forget time to time a fingerstyle lesson ., Chet’s style
Thanks Brian, a piece that sounds so complicated and yet so achievable through your amazing ability to help us understand the process and patterns involved. Many thanks.
So clever so fun
Great lesson as usual.
Just asking – any way Soundslice settings can be saved? It’s a great feature, but every time I use it, I need to increase the size, expand the line length, and turn off the scroll.
(Maybe I’m just lazy.)
Thanks. Great tune. Great old Gibson. Must be fun making it talk.
PS: These “ragtime” type sessions have provided me with some great tools. Couple weeks ago I heard Jorma Kaukonen’s interpretation of “Hesitation Blues.” I had a go at it & replicated it, not necessarily note-for-note, but to my personal satisfaction. Those tools not limited to ragtime as I also did same with Bonfa’s “Samba de Orfeu.” I’d known the melody for some time, but never could figure out a simple chord melody arrangement. Tried it & the chords appeared under my fingers. Never could have done that before signing up with AM. Thanks.
Um, Em is the 5 chord of Am no? You’re playing EMaj. Sounds good tho.
I like this arrangement. I am a fan of Dave Van Ronk. This is kind of reminiscent. Maybe you could put up some more Van Ronkish lessons in the future. Thanks.
I can’t help but comment on your incredible album collection behind you Brian, What a great room for relaxing, playing and teaching!
A lovely arrangement packed full of nuggets. That final comment ‘maybe I should have taught the chord progression first’ – for me, that’s key to learning the piece – nail the basic chords and rhythm first, including playing the chords at different places on the fretboard.
Thanks Brian. Another great lesson! I believe I enjoy your ragtime the most. Great job as always!
Ah Brian, beautiful. At the end of part 2, you made me cry talking about George Harrison, then you made me laugh adding that little “and many more” tinker, and slight, sheepish grin, to finish off the strumming demo. That’s what music and making music is all about! Appreciate you, mate.
This one’s been really inspiring. I’ve been playing at a market once a month (it’s a humble little effort) and would love to throw in a few ragtime tunes like this. Thanks to all your foundation lessons on the caged system… it is within reach.
One real gem in this was the quick mention of the Dorian mode(I think) over the Am. That sounds awesome. It’s like a whole new galaxy just opened up to me. I don’t know about modes yet but I know the scale pattern you referred to. So glad you mentioned that.
Thanks Brian