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In this weeks’ guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an acoustic country, blues composition in drop D tuning by yourself (no jam track needed). This lesson is designed to give you ideas for licks and chord voicings that you can play in Drop D tuning.
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I’m always up for something new! It sounds like it’ll be fun. Thanks Brian
Very cool dropped D lesson.
I was reluctant to play in Dropped D but once I started listening it became a lot more interesting.
Thanks Brian
Ray P
I love the drop D tuning. I have a Gibson F25 1964. It sound great in drop D. I like your idea of keeping a guitar in D tuning. I look forward to your new licks each week.
Reminds me of Steve Earles Copperhead Road.
Sorry I hadn’t yet watched the second video where you mentioned the song.
This is the second time I remember you using Dropped D tuning. Both tunes have a distinctive quality. This one will be great to learn.
Thanks Brian
That would be a good song for a jam session! Thanks, Brian!
Love this
Swampy😊
Awesome!
Little bit of “You saw me coming” by the late, great Tom Petty. I love it.
Thank you Brian for rekindling my love affair with guitar!
Another great lesson Brian thank you
love the dropped D sound Brian great sounding composition cheers
With a modern steel string guitar how many steps on how many strings can I ‘retune’ for a session without expecting the neck to move?
Reminds me of CSN&Y. Very cool lesson. Thanks Brian!
Just love this drop D lesson! So many possibilities. Thanks Brien!
I used to look forward to Friday for obvious reasons but now I also look forward to them for your new lessons. This one is particularly awesome. Thank you Brian for all you do for us!
Hi Brian,
I just renewed my membership and I love your latest lesson I have Martin 0 16 NY that looks very much like the parlor guitar you’re playing. I would send you a picture if I knew how.
P.S. I looked up the age and it is the year I graduated from high school 1971
I really like this one. Already spent some hours with it. I almost made it. Great fun to practice and play. Thanks Brian
This is a great compliment to your previous drop D lessons Brian! I’ve been noodling around with some lead playing over this and it sounds pretty good through the acoustic channel on the Katana. You amaze every week with these lessons. SRV to drop D acoustic! LOVE IT!
How much of difference one note makes. Drop D has a great sound and I am always ready for another lesson on it.
Day Tripper might be the Beatles song you were alluding to, Brian.
The elusive sounding Beatles thing at 9:25 sounds like “If I Needed Someone.”
Quick question on the 6-9 codes, am I correct to then state that if am in the key of C, I play A minor with C in the base, then that becomes a C6 (stacked ) chord?
Thanks! A very inspiring DropD-Lesson.
I really like the way you revisit themes in these pieces (e.g. Keith Richards hammer-on, etc.) that cement in our heads various off-chords and concepts. Please keep that up
…your playing is of course always enviable. But I think adding some mutes in these exercises is too next-level playing. I’m subconsciously muting all the time per the song, and it’s a necessary mindset when playing acoustic
This groove is so infectious! I can’t stop playing it on my Jim Dandy, which sounds amazing in Drop D…🤘🤘
Thanks. I’ll see what I can do with it. I love and do mostly country.
Holding down that bar in bar 9 on the low E string and the G string, for the hammer on, is proving a recipe to carpal tunnel syndrome for me
Hi Brian
I am not sure if you got my msg yesterday. There’s a 1930s Martin 00 17 being auctioned on Ebay. Solid mahogany and in pretty good condition. Auction ends soon
Ty for the lessons
Brian is that a 3/4 guitar? What model? Many thanks. Love the site. Membership is the best money I have ever spent on learning this instrument.
Very cool lesson Brian. I think the Beatles reference is I Feel Fine maybe?
Hi Brian, I truly understand and appreciate your concept of upselling from the “free” lessons to the premium membership. However, once being a premium member after a while it becomes quite disturbing having to hear the sales pitches to other lessons and premium membership over and over again.
Could you possibly consider making the first part of the lessons “free of advertising” for premium members, after the login?
you mean the few sentences at the beginning of the video? is that really that big of a deal?