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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll attach licks to chord shapes to create a stand-alone blues composition. No jam track needed.
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Love the vibe of this one – very cool. thanks!
Great lesson! I am learning so much .
Sweet chord progression on this Brian. Nice tasty fills to go with it. The Gibson is sounding awesome!
Mike
Great lesson Brian.Dave Stotesbury
Thanks Brian – I love the lessons where the final product sounds good playing on your own … so much value in these examples – great job!!
That guitar he’s playing certainly helps. The sound is incredible.
L-48?
ES-125
Another good logical lesson
Great lesson. More of these please. How about a lesson on improvising to a song? Like you did with Key to the highway.
This is awsome…they’r all good but this is another favorite for me. Thanks again
Absolutely great lessons, Brian.
I am new on the premium site, and I cannot find the backing tracks you have mentioned.
Can you give me a hint?
Great lesson. Thank you for including a discussion on the chord family. Helps when you reemphasis those concepts from your theory course.
strum pattern worth the price of admission
I love this chord progression. There is so much here to experiment with! Thanks for another great lesson.
Love this lesson. Awesome.
Love it! Sounds a little like “Sea Of Love” by The Honeydrippers. Sweet!
Great lesson as always. Some great ideas on Mixolydian and 7ths too.
Thanks Brian
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Another interesting lesson, with an effective and well explained use of examples.
Another super lesson. This is my first ever post. I get excited every Fri. for each new lesson. This week I turned 80 I am not a good player, however I can’t wait to pick
up the guitar almost every day and with all the joy learning from you I will keep on having fun till the day I am Starbound!
You inspire me, Robert, thanks
Great lesson Brian. It would be very helpful when you add more lessons, even if they are for lead improvising, to put chord diagrams up like you did in this video for all the ones who don’t know the names of all the chords others do, can learn them. I took a lot away from the soulful rhythm leads you had on a previous lesson, and you pointed out how important it is to play the rhythms to get familiar with the chords to associate the triads and partial scales to the melody. You have a great sight, I’ve played since I was 20, I’m 57 now, and I’ve learned more in the past 6 months from you than I have in the last 20 years
Thank you for a greate lesson. Perhaps part 2 will come Soon.
Good Stuff!
Brian, what do you think about putting the Chord Diagrams on the PDFs?
thanks brian. Nice lesson!
Thanks again for a great lesson. Like you mentioned, everyone is curious about your guitars and MEEe included. I love your collection. I wish there was a huge swap meet for guitars to check out like a library is for books.
Thanks Brian, even though you are a master player, you recognise the needs of the average punter.
As always, many thanks
I love the fact you always relate melody/improvising to chord shapes (eg. CAGED system triads) rather than just ‘runs’ on a scale which used to mean absolutely nothing to me until I joined your website. I used to be a graphic designer so thinking graphically and seeing shapes the way you do really helps me. Thanks Brian for another brilliant LIGHTBULB MOMENT!
Hey Brian thanks for Piedmont style blues and the insight as to changing the minor chords to major to accomplish this sound.
So much simplistic beauty and goodness in this lesson! I’m still working on the awesome EP491 but this one’s next for sure. Thanks for consistantly turning out quality lessons with compositions that really inspire me to play and not just memorise 🙂
EDE chime on that final lick; sweet!🎶
Liked the lesson intellectually. But pinky won’t stretch to reach on those e-shaped 7th chords. So could get much that was melodic out of that. My takeaway was the first embellishment to the Am chord. Oh well, maybe one day…
Nice melody. I get a kick out of how you sort of suggest this is all easy-like just off the myxo scale or just off the chord. It’s hard!
Other than the chords themselves, I am lucky if I get quarter of the rest. But I keep trying. Thanks.
Why would part 2 of EP 494 be blurred and can’t open but everything else is fine, i.e., slow walk, tab, backing tracks , etc. ? I recently renewed my subscription. I have tried what I can think of like reboot, log off and then back on, checked other lessons and they are fine???? TIA
Hi Jim,
Same issue with me with part 2 not working properly.
Can you check Brian?
Warren.
Hi Warren,
Well at least it’s not just me. What do you mean check Brian?
I have to leave for a few hours but will check back here then. I’m in Colorado so I don’t know our time difference. Not that it matters, just thought I would bring that up.
Thanks for the reply.
Jim
It’s a browser issue – See comments below – from Michael D – he was having the same issue in a Microsoft browser – Try Google Chrome or Firefox.
The lesson that I needed! Just love the groove; quite easy to play yet sounds awesome 🙂
Brian:
Part 2 is not working properly for me, The image for video 2 is blurred and there is no arrow/target to start the video. As of now, it plays audio but no video. Clearly Part 2 is meant to be viewed, but as of today (12/7/22) it does not work correctly. Please help us out.
This is a neat lesson and I would really like to see the details narrated in Video 2.
Thanks,
Mike Dobson
Just another thought — Is anyone able to see the video in Part 2? If so, then I will try to troubleshoot locally.
Thanks,
Mike Dobson
I also cannot. I did reply to Warren on here, he is having the same problem. Our post is a few up from yours.
Mike,
I just tried it, and I don’t get audio either.
Say, just tried viewing the Google Chrome and Video 2 runs flawlessly. I was using Microsoft’s latest browser previously, but Video 2 does not run on that browser. Try Chrome, as it worked for me,
Thanks,
Mike
FRANCESCO , thank you for all the great lessons BRIAN , have a great CHRISTMAS AND A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR .
Hey Brian, another great lesson. I’m having a hard time understanding how you are moving around that initial A chord (from the I to the IV) to the G and the B. In A, you hit the open A and the m3h3 and the 7th. At G and B, if you’re playing just the third and fourth string you’d be hitting just the m3h3 and the 7 without any root. Is this just about the tonality of the G and B?
Geeze… where were you, Brian, when I was 15 (1966) and so hungry for insights. What a nourishing and rewarding experience, at last, to make up for lost time through your insightful conversations.
Amen brother.
Thank you. This was presented in a very clear manner. You explained each shape and fill related to the chord.
This one is so cool to play!
This is a great lesson Brian. So much more in it than at first glance. Really like your relaxed, conversational way of teaching! Makes everything so easy to follow! Thanks again!