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Country Blues Lead and Rhythm Guitar Composition You Can Play By Yourself – EP317

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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn a country rhythm and lead (with several classic blues licks thrown in) that you can play by yourself on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson demonstrates how to play lead over chord changes using the major pentatonic scale.

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  4. sunburst says

    Say Brian, great lesson, nice double stops and a mix as you explained in the intro.. certainly something for me to enjoy for practice! Also thank you always for tone/amps gear etc intros.. very useful as always! So happy for be both of us here! Simply awesome to watch learn and if I can try to share what you teach me here!

  5. Matt C says

    For someone that doesnt reallly get into the country I thought this was really cool. I think I need to start taking each piece on its own merit, and expand my tiny wee brain muscle. Great playing Brian, I love never knowing whats comming next.

  10. Allan says

    What I like Brian is the variety you provide week in week out I love the blues but also like anything else that improve s my guitar playing this weeks lesson is a perfect example of that I love everything about it so keep them coming cheers.

  11. Klaus N says

    I would not consider myself a country music fan by all means but it does grow on me – I increasingly enjoy playing a little country blues from time to time and recently started getting into EP259, so this is right down my alley. Thank you Brian for the cornucopia of styles and ideas you challenge us with every week!

  14. Elad L says

    I’m new here, and this is only my second “weekly video,” but I’m loving it. I’d just like to remind everyone than sometimes “country music is not exactly country music”. Take Mark Knofler for example. Most wouldn’t consider him a country – style artist, yet many of his songs would have to fall into this category.

  15. Glenn says

    I like this one very much, Brian. You have a wonderful “feel” for different styles. Also, I have mentioned creating names rather than numbers for some of your compositions, because sometimes I forget which pieces I have been working on when I sit down to play. I know Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do is in my repertory, but EP314? So I have named your recent minor key composition EP314 as follows: The Death Of Tsar Nicholas II. Cheers.

    • Brian says

      “The Death of Tsar Nicholas II” – whoa… intense! I like it. The main reason I don’t name these is for search purposes on YouTube – I have to title them what people will be searching, so they can find it. For example, a lot more people that are looking for guitar instruction would search something like , “country blues guitar lesson” than, “The Death of Tsar Nicholas II” 🙂 That said, I think it’d be awesome if you gave each one a name. 🙂

      • Klickitat Jim says

        I’ve started naming them once they are in my head and my fingers, and i pick something that i can remember. Example EP297 i call Shes Never Coming Back Again because it sounds like the hook in that tune.

  17. Anthony D says

    I loved this lesson. However, I found that full bend at the end a challenge on my acoustic, so I just moved up a half step for a half bend and that seemed to do the trick. I really like the country lessons a lot, especially those pedal steel sounds you work in. Those have been a revelation.

  19. phil l says

    thank you for this lesson
    A great moment of country …
    you could even do another micro lesson
    with the “”bending technique ” for measures 21 to 24.
    There would be a lot to do
    phil

  22. Stephen T says

    Wow, another great piece of music that I am about to attempt to replicate (much to the disgust of my neighbours!)

    I do like these ‘stand alone’ pieces that suit acoustic as well as amplified guitars – all I have is a battered acoustic – and it is so nice to be able to sit down and play something without an accompanying track.

    It is wonderful, also, to have different types of music to play. I adore the blues of course, it is such a musically satisfying genre and remains my favourite but I also value the opportunity to attempt to play outside of this musical area hence examples of jazz or country, for example, are most welcome.

  26. PAUL R says

    Absolutely awesome piece of music, it’s coming together just right and just want to thank you Brian for all your help , there are times when I feel I’m going backwards but then my fingers do what they are supposed to do and it’s down to the tips and techniques you show us all , cheers mate

  27. Jason R says

    I love the country stuff, and this is one of my favorites. I would love to see a country licks lesson. Also (and probably more importantly), a lesson that further explores transitioning scales pattern mid-solo to play the chord changes. That one section when you go from E to B is really the key (no pun intended) to understanding the fretboard and soloing (not that I do, yet). Anyway, keep the country stuff coming!

  40. john m says

    Strangely, I played rhythm guitar in church for years but no lead. So at first, several months ago when I started with these lessons, it was the lead parts that were awkward. But that comes fairly quickly now. I’m struggling more with getting the right hand stuff correct. So this kind of lesson was ver helpful because it made me get the rhythm rather than cheat like I’ve been doing at times. This one is super fun. I just can’t believe Brian can come up with these things so often.

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