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A simple formula for creating a soulful guitar composition you can play by yourself – ML148

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a repeatable method: strum through 1-2-3-4, stop, then play your lick. Reuse that same pattern throughout the song and you’ve got a solo guitar composition.

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  1. Kevin D says

    August 14, 2026 at 5:58 pm

    great chord progression looks like some quick fun

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  2. Mike R says

    August 14, 2026 at 8:01 pm

    This should be a good piece to noodle around with and come up with variations. Thanks Brian

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  3. Jeff H says

    August 14, 2026 at 9:48 pm

    I love this lesson. I have wondered how to do this. Thanks for the easy formula Brian.

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  4. Joe S says

    August 14, 2026 at 10:29 pm

    Great Lesson Brian
    I didn’t think this lesson was going to be one I connected with when I first heard it. I listen to each lesson all the way through every week even if it doesn’t always connect with me. I started noodling around with the concepts you taught in this lesson and before I knew it, I was happily down a rabbit hole experimenting. I had many light bulb moments as I played this out of several different caged areas. I changed the timing a little and at the Gdim7 used a diagonal diminished arpeggio going from B flat starting on the 5th string 1st fret and concluding on the first string 9th fret then back to Bm7. I also would occasionally play an F# dom 7 instead of the Gdim7. When I was finished putting my take on it, it had a Gypsy Jazz vibe to it. I was able to do all of this because of all the fine lessons you have taught over the years. – Thank You!

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  5. Lesley O says

    August 15, 2026 at 2:05 am

    Thankyou for continuing to come up with these fun snippets for us Brian, even in these summer months – do you ever get a holiday?? Continuing heatwave conditions here in France mean spending afternoons indoors with shutters and windows closed – so what better use of time than playing guitar!!? So these lessons are much appreciated. I find these micro lessons are manageable to get under my fingers in a shorter time so also have time to aim to perfect my technique and return to previous lessons as well. We all keep asking you for more of this and more of that and you continue to come up with more of everything, but at the same time linking lessons with some repetition of ideas which is so effective and helpful with memory. More of the same is very much appreciated, thankyou

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    • JEROME L says

      August 15, 2026 at 3:45 am

      Salut Lesley.
      Pour moi c’est le contraire ; d’habitude je fais de la guitare le soir après la journée, mais en ce moment avec la chaleur extrême je sors chercher un peu de fraicheur dehors, et je pratique moins.
      J’ai hâte qu’on revienne à des conditions météo plus acceptables pour retrouver ma routine.
      D’autant que, comme tu le soulignes, les leçons de Brian continuent d’être toujours plus intéressantes les unes que les autres et je manque de temps pour les travailler.
      Bonne fin d’été, et bonne pratique.

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  6. JEROME L says

    August 15, 2026 at 2:53 am

    Hi Brian, and every one.
    Last week it seemed to me that we were laying the groundwork for a kind of ‘call and response’;
    today it’s a good continuation of that (even if it’s not exactly call and response);
    in any case, it prepares you to jam alone with yourself, which is extremely useful and really nice.
    Brian, thank you very very much for your work.
    Have a good week.

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  7. Pentti S says

    August 15, 2026 at 4:20 am

    Great lesson again. This is what we need, just you and the guitar. No backing tracks. This is a real creativity platform. Thank you

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