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If you’re looking for a simple way to add a little jazz to your blues rhythm or lead, then you’ll love this lesson. I’ll show you how to use a diminished arpeggio and chord over the 4 chord in a 12 bar blues. This is a simple technique for adding a jazzy flair to your blues. The first time through I’ll show you the rhythm part, the 2nd time through I’ll show you how to add fill licks to that rhythm.
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Hey!! I can actually be the very first commentator again this week!! This reminds me very much of Chicago Blues………coincidence here, Brian??!! Jim C.
like the song but please no yellow shirts in the future.
Great Lesson! For some reason the yellow shirt against the red guitar bothered me as well…isnt that weird…but please feel free to wear anything you like and keep the wonderful material coming…you are great!
The lesson, like the shirt, is a stand out.
Thanks Brian,
Love the lesson and the shirt! Yellow is cool.
Tim
Great lesson! I think I actually prefer the tune played slowly, as in the slow walk- through.
Keep ’em coming!
Nice one Brian. Another ton of goodies emanating from here requiring urgent attention! Thanks John
PS dont ge too near to a bee hive!!
This one, in no way, diminishes your track record of great lessons. Thanks, again, Brian.
John
Great lesson Brian. Have been keen to introduce a jazzy feel to my blues playing – and this lesson, besides being a great unaccompanied tune itself, has the take-aways to do help do that. Thanks again Brian.
Rick
great lesson Brian……and I love yellow…..
Roberto
This one is worth learning just that riff at 0:46. Another mystery of guitar playing solved for me. Thanks, Brian.
Larry
Thanks for another GREAT rhythm lesson, you are really helping out my playing bro. those two licks over the diminished 4th WAY COOL thanks.
Hi Brian,
Great and interesting lesson. I’m developing more and more interest in jazzy guitar, thanks to you, so this is very much appreciated!
As i only play acoustics, could you please always mention if the electric lessons will work / sound good / make sense on acoustic guitar to?
That would be great to know before i set myself to learn the whole and sometimes pretty difficult lessons.
Thanks.
Eric
I think they all sound great on acoustic, as long as I can play them and they don’t go to far up the neck.
Love it
B, That was great fun, never thought of doing that, short, sweet, and simple plus leaving excellent moments for improv. J
GREAT lesson. Already one of my very favorite unaccompanied lessons! Really fun to play. So much to work with and build upon.
Enjoy this lesson and you description about using the diminished chords
Great lesson again. I now hear that diminished scale played in Allman Brothers Elizabeth Reed, now I hear it in context. As I’ve learned more from your lessons, I hear them when I listen to other music!!
sounds like the awesome Steely Dan song Chain Lighting
Another amazing lesson, Brian. Thank you so much!!
I love it even more today!
I just cannot TELL you how this lesson made light bulbs go off in my head! I’ve always loved 9th and diminished chords, but never thought to work diminished chirds into a 1-4-5 blues. Add the chord-based licks AND the arpeggio! WOW! Heaven. THANKS BRIAN!!!
Hi Brian,
I really love your recent lessons. I am starting to visualize the fretboard which has improved my playing immensely.
Please keep up the great work. It is very much appreciated.
Best,
Michael
Very very useful lesson..an another door will be unlock…almost
Thanks a lot
Ale
i loved that Dave Rawlings lick over the V chord in part 2…thanks!
Way cool! I spent 15 minutes watching the first video, then sat around for an hour just inserting the chords into a 12 bar blues shuffle in all kinds of different ways. Then I started working in some licks I know, and before long I realized “Hey, I’m actually creating an original song here”. And that’s why I love these kinds of lessons.
More nuggets Brian. Keep um coming my friend, Loving that diminished scale run.
Great lesson, thank you … Love the blues/jazz combo lessons.
great lesson brian! having fun with this one. you rock!!!
Real cool brother. I have been playing some of this stuff for years, but I always walk away with something from you. Nice to watch another picker at work, you inevitably learn something. Great job. Blow off the comments on the shirt, who gives a f… ? It’s your world.
Hay Brian. Like this one a bunch. If you can expand on this format, other maj. practice sets, min sets, really anything related, GO as far as you can take it. Linking chords and creating arpeggio links thru them is very helpful in expanding solo content in a very natural sounding way.
Another good lesson, Brian. Thanks for being so thorough with the whys as well as the hows. Part 2 is a blur for me—something defective—can it be corrected? I live in Chiang Mai, Thailand, not too far from China. I bought a great copy from China of a Gibson es345, with 6-position switch for a fraction of the cost in LA, California (my former home). If anyone wants some help ordering from a reliable Chinese company, I can be reached at [email protected].
This is a really great lesson, along with EP167 and EP168, a trio of lessons that are going a long way to freeing up the way I look at the neck.
There’s something I want to mention that may make it easier for people to understand why the G6 works over the A chord; looked at a different way, the G6 is actually part of the A9 chord, and it’s not far from being the typical T-Bone Walker A9 voicing. It’s G, B, E, G ascending, there you have the 7, 9, 5 and 7 of the A9. If you take away the high G and add a C# below (5th string, 4th fret), you have the T-Bone Walker A9 (and you can also slide it down from a step above).
Thank you, Brian! Top-notch. And never mind what anyone says about your clothes or your monologues, both are just fine with me.
Great stuff Brain! Love that diminished lick! Yowzer!
great lesson 🙂
Great fun looping you play 1st verse while i play over with the 2nd the vice versa
Brian, You are doing that special guitar justice. I hope that Eric sees you playing it because I know that he would be pleased to know that you love it and play it well,
Gary.