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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a boogie woogie style, swing blues composition that you can play by yourself on guitar (no jam track needed).
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At the risk of repeating myself – I love it as always! Thanks Brian
sweet ride !
I have always known that last “Lawrence Welk” chord as an A6/9?
Me too… I like it!
Time to jump and boogie on Friday night. Top Shelf for sure!
Love these tunes for acoustic guitar. And, boogie woogie is always fun to play! Thanks Brian.
Is Anybody else having trouble streaming part 2? I really love this tune , but it wont stream….it must be my phone , im thinking…if anyone else can you let me know please thanks
Dig that 6-and-9 tip, Brian. Thank you for another excellent one. Is it Ok if I use the Gretsch with the Blacktops, throw dirt on it and crank up the tempo to about 200 or so? Sounds very Setzer’ish.
Love it Brian! Gives me more ideas where to take the boogie. Great part two swing style with more takeaways! You are the best!
Oh yea!
Wow!
A really fun little lesson with lots of juicy licks and double stops! I really like the change in feel of the boogie woogie first part and the swing second part. I was home alone on Friday night (the wife is out with the gals) and I saw that you had a new lesson posted, so I am having great fun learning all the parts. Thanks again Brian. You are hands down the best guitar instructor working on the internet – humble and to the point.
nice vintage j45
I’ve got a vintage Hagstrom copy of it that’s nearly as battered as Brian’s – I bought it new in 1963 from Frank Hessy’s in Liverpool.
Got my first decent guitar at Hessy’s. A blonde Hohner Strat copy. Foxy Lady! One hundred of your finest sovs, sir. Served me well through a good many paying gigs in the working men’s clubs of the north west. Good days.
I was wondering if that is a J35 or a J45. I’ve been playing a 1938 J35 since the early 90s.
Great stuff, I really like this. Well done, Brian!
A winner !!!
When are we going to hear you sign Brian!? 😉
Love these uptempo jazzy swing blues lessons! My favorites!
Thanks Brian.
Mixolydian light bulb lighting up, I didn’t realize I was playing it, I was just listening to the sound.
Key of G is also a nice version of this style.
Thanks again!!
Brian, are you playing a game to see how many take-aways you can jam into a lesson? This lesson is like gold… so many useful tips. I especially loved the tip on anchoring mixolydian to the a-shape chord. Awesome. Keep more of this coming! So cool and so much fun.
Lots of great stuff in this one Brian! EP008 is a good companion lesson to this…that quick turnaround lick in EP008 has been in my arsenal for years. Thank you!!!
Hi Brian, thanks for another great lesson. I have been a member for a number of years now. I would like a little side advice, and anything coming from the membership would also be appreciated. I love the guitar you are using in this lesson. It appears to be a wider neck. Is that a J35 Gibson? Anyway, I am looking to get another guitar and I am attracted to Gibson hummingbird and J’s. I play on my Martin D28 which is great and has a very bright sound. I am looking for something that is a little different with a ‘deeper’ sound. With that said, I am in SF and will be going through Nashville the weekend of March 31-April 3.
Do you have any suggestions for guitar stores AND any place to see some music performances which may be a smaller venue off the beaten track with acoustic music. thanks, Warren
I love it. Makes you want to get up and dance.
Thank you for this Brian…nice takeaways…I like the flow..
Great lesson. I enjoyed the Mixolydian how to stuff too. Lots of cool and useful info.
Thanks Brian
Ray
Wowie! That one’s a winner.
Brian, how do you do this each week? If you did one lesson every two weeks we would still be getting outstanding value. Many thanks
Don’t give him any ideas like that… his weekly lesson is my guitar learning fix! 🙂
Love that A6-A9 swing. If you like this one try 344. My all time favorite.
Love this lesson.
In the second lesson at about 1:05, I believe it is A Major pentatonic position 4 rather than position 1.
Threw me for a minute but a good test! 🙂
me to madams
With apologies to anyone unfamiliar with Mike Batt and British 1970s TV and pop charts, but the chromatic climb on strings 5 and 4 helped me to remember member member what a womble womble womble I am.
You killed it this week Brian—this lesson is full of so many takeaways as you like to mention, but it is true. A few more days and I’ll have this one down—great work. Thank you.
You asked about favorite solos. We’ll I have many. But there are two that I just can stop listening to: Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” – Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas: Adagio and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet concerto in A major, “K. 622 – Adagio”
How do you do this?
Your lessons keep getting better and better…!
Yees good Job
This is lovely.
hmmm, tasty…
Part 2 of EP-454 is using the A Major Blues Scale ?
I cant tell how how happy I am to have found Brian and Active Melody. Every single lesson gives me fantastic ‘light bulb’ moments. This has totally changed my understanding of so many points and massively improved my playing and enjoyment of the guitar.
Thank you!
Speaking of soundtracks. EP333 has a simple backing track I wish was more available for your other lessons.
I just think it makes learning easier to have those simple baking tracks but I have not idea how much extra work that is on your end.
The BW playing is just plain fun. Thanks for this lesson. One of my favorites.
you are just a class act . Great teacher. I have come up atleast 3 levels. actually will play in front of people now. hugh inprovement thanks to you!!!!!!
When you take some extra time to explain that that turnaround is actually a 2-5-1 chord progression is a great example of how you go deeper than the rest without providing too much theory that can distract from your set pieces that your teaching. You used the term “chromatic” . Does that mean that behind some pattern of notes that you play, there is a set chord progression?
check the Essential Theory course – I cover playing chromatically in that course
Still Crazy – not sure about the recording, but the sax player on the central park concert is Dave Tofani. Great solo. And when the brass section join in for the crescendo! Whoa, as they say, mama.
I liked the run-through and thought, “I can handle that.” And, I can– a measure at a time. So much of this lesson is the timing, the “feel” (which I guess is micro-timing). I’ll be spending a long while, pleasurably, with this week’s piece.
Just great. Got a all blues gig coming up in April and trying to play different things than expected and the other guitarist. This kind of material really helps.
This lesson is the epitome of guitar. This is motivating me to go out and buy and old Gibson acoustic. A wonderful Boogie-Woogie Blues stand alone composition. This style is right up my ally. I like this because it teaches me how (through another performance worthy arrangement) to navigate the fretboard in a wonderfully stylistic approach. This, when mastered, will turn heads. Love it Brian.
This is tremendous! Thanks Brian.
Really late to the party, but just a great lesson! You are the best on the Internet, Brian! I’ll be working on these licks for weeks!!
Great lesson Brian! Love it! A round with the 2 note chords would leave room for a harp. It would also make a great break song. Thank for sharing your exceptional teaching ability.
This rocks. I will spend some time on this one for sure. Great lesson as always Brian.
Nice guitar…wow…..