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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to fatten up your Blues solo by playing notes directly out of chord shapes. This will also help you think through your lead in a more logical way and easily find harmonies.
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Wow, this one is smokin’ at 160bpm. Well worth wait on this wonderful Friday evening. The concept of colors of chords is important. I learned this in another one of your lessons and it was enlightening at the time. This lesson has a ton of useful licks that are super tasty. Partial chords rule.
be nice to know your guitar effects settings too. thank. way fun.
love it !!!
I may say more later as i go through the exercise but I really like the d7th c shape transitioning to a d 7th a shape. I find many songs moving back and forth from different caged chord progressions as always within the same structure.
Yes great blues lead, different from the other ones. Love it !
Lots of good ideas here. This piece helps me keep my fore finger planted more, while playing notes underneath and moving up the fretboard at the same time.
G’day Brian,
Excellent work as usual! This gives the player so much more of an understanding of the board,
The locks are broken, and at last there is so much freedom to not only play, but enjoy what you are doing.
M.J., Oz.
Long live the blues. Great lesson Brian…full of fantastic ideas and eye opening moments.
Love the sound of your guitar.
I hope some day you will do a lesson that includes maybe just a hint on those unusual scales much used by players like Robben Ford. In the past you have done a lesson on rhythm playing like Robben and every once in a while I repeat it cause I like it so much.
Thank always
There is nothing mystical about what Robben is doing. He just creates tension between chords. The scale I think you are referring to is the diminish scale or half-step whole-step scale. You can use that for more of a jazzy form of tension going from the I chord to the IV chord. Brian has several lessons on that scale already. Just type in “diminished scale” in the search box on the weekly lessons page. Also look up diminish chords as well because that gives you a jazzy sound to blues.
That analogy about painting a barn is amazing. Very well put and helped make sense.
Nice. Actually a good follow up to the Chicago blues lesson a couple of weeks ago..
First thing I did on this one is to get the song structure down then spend some time on the chords / rhythm pattern . I’ll tackle the rest next. Looking forward to it.!
Brian, what I like about this is in relating you lead to chords I think it is much easier to remember the ideas over time and establish a foundation for creating new ideas.
Sure has a nice bite to it! For now the slow walkthrough will be good, hope to accelerate some. For now slow is smooth, smooth is fast 😃
Great lesson, I took away plenty, especially the vertical A runs on strings 2 and 3 in those 2 shapes, actually playing wrong notes on 2 strings here does not matter if one slides to next position, like previous lesson. I notice myself how important choosing the right guitar and tone is for playing rhythm and getting in that pocket, started using neural amp modeler in my DAW with tone3000.
Great lesson! Licks work very well with most any old rock & roll song. I got a lot out of this lesson. Thanks Brian!
This was another great lesson. More like this, I hope. Thanks Brian
I love this lesson, Brian. I’m still working out the timing on the first couple of bars, as a I usually struggle with timing and need to count through things when I first learn them. On this one, it works better for me to use downstrokes on the beats and upstrokes on the off beats, which is different from the way you’ve done it. I like what you’re doing because the upstrokes really emphasize the A and E notes on the first two strings. Once I get my way down and have the rhythm internalized, I’ll do it your way so I can do both ways. This looks like a great introduction to really learning the opening of Johnny B. Goode. Thanks. Much appreciated.
Another great one! So much gold in here. I loved seeing so many examples of 2 notes standing in for the chord.
Brian:
This is SO MUCH FUN to play.
Takes me back to my early early days playing guitar, back when rock ‘n’ roll was just fun. Fun to listen to. Fun to dance to. And most of all, fun to play. Back when being in a band and playing high school dances was like a celebration, man. Friday nights forever! For me that’s 60 years ago now, but this makes it feel like yesterday. So, hand me my strat and turn that ol’ Dual Showman up to 10.
Thanks for the joy.
Love this Brian. It just keeps getting better & beter. The ideas you present are so awsome over such simple chord structures.
Breaking down simple notes from within a chord to make it so melodic, is just brilliant and magical.
It blows me away with every lesson you present. Forever greatful.
This one is going to take some work but I really dig it. Great stuff.
Great!
This is the rock’n’roll lesson I have been searching for.
At the risk of too many comments, this piece really shows how rock and roll developed from the blues, just turn up the metronome! Very fun to play, not sure why but playing this piece smoothly validates my guitar playing to my family, it is very well composed. There is beauty in simplicity, I see why rock & roll took off after Chuck Berry ( and others). Brian – thanks for this!
Blew my socks off.
Crap…another good one! The only problem for me is that I’m a slow learner at this stage guitar journey so I keep tagging lessons that sound and feel like what I need/want but that list is getting large:) I have to stop jumping from one to the next as I’m never really “completing” the last good one you put out.
Guess it’s a good problem to have but man…I need to focus!
Fran
New member, glad to be here, I’m excited! This is the kind of online lesson I’m looking for! Thanks/Ed
Great lesson, helped me see a lot!! Thank you.
Absolutely enjoyable!