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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a Ragtime Blues lead and follow the chord changes by primarily staying in 1 position of the Major Pentatonic scale. This lesson includes a bonus fingerstyle rhythm that is tabbed out as well and sounds great on it’s own.
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That had my foot tapping in time from the start. I can’t wait to start working on this tune. Thanks so much Brian
brian lesson is great.i think it would take me a month,possibly two to even uderstand what is going on.
love your stuff
thks
guine
Echoes of Has Anybody Seen My Girl (which surprisingly is in the public domain). I hear Ragtime and even Dixieland in this piece. Fun to learn and play on the first weekend of summer. Where’s my hat?
five foot two eyes of blue!
Another great one . Getting something out of everything I’ve seen you do so far .
Five Foot Two, eyes of blue – oh boy what that five foot can do. “Hoochie coochie” comes later. 🙂
Love it Brian ! Thanks for another awesome lesson.
This lesson took me all over the fretboard in relationship to my pentatonics it made me think it was good.
My dearest teacher ❤️ 💖 ♥️ I think that after what I said about me starting the acoustic guitar and ragtime blues,this lesson is made especially for me!!!❣️💖💕Thank you so much!!!!
Brian,
Excellent job! Not only have you taught me to be a better guitar player, I’ve also learned so much about composition too! Thank you! I can’t wait to dig into this one.
Doug C.
Hi, Brian,
Man, there is just soooo much great information in this lesson! Wow!
And I love that you’ve taught it through this wonderful Ragtime piece; these are among my favourites to learn and play.
Keep it coming!
Hi Brian
I’ve been with active melody for a long time and your lessons have helped me stay excited about playing guitar. I’ve kind of always tried to figure things out by ear with some success, but lessons like these make me realize how important it is to refresh and update my knowledge of
all the positions of the major and minor pentatonic scales are. I’m in my seventies and and enjoying playing more than ever.
Thanks Brian and keep up the great work
👍👍
LUV it LUV it Luv it . Keep them coming. You never cease to amaze me. You da man. Dave
What a great rhythm! I was just trying to find something different, get out of that same ol blues thing for a minute, and here it is! I love these chord changes. This is going to give me something to do for awhile. And the lead too, yipes, I’d better get to work 🙂
Wonderful! Just love it Brian. Thank you. I’ve been struggling for years and have so much trouble finding inspiration but this one is a great toe tapping lesson I am enjoying. Now I’ll give it a whirl.
This a another great lesson on the Blues Lead. Any chance you can go over Rhythm section? It should would be helpful. Thanks for all you hard work, you’re always greatly appreciated.
I totally agree with you. I really love this rag time blue and Brain is a wonderful teacher (I’ve lost count how many years I’ve been a member and how many great tunes I’ve learnt). On this occasion I too could do with a bit of with the rhythm section.
I always like the ragtime lessons. I think you have done about 12 other ragtime lessons. They are fun to play.
Yep, this is an add to favorites composition for sure. Very satisfying to play through this one.
The lesson seems so dificult, but the explenation is so easy. Love your lessons Brian. Keep on the goof work. No live sessions?
Wow! Line cliches and augmenteds too. Very cool. Always working on decoding ragtime stuff. Thanks.
This is exceptionally helpful, fun to learn and play, and wrapped up in a very fine lesson. And good practice on a looper…….
Thanks yet again!!
G’day Brian,
Great work as always. Love the progression.
M.J. Oz.
Thanks Brian – I love ragtime on the guitar as much as I love the blues that you do
Spit screen was great. Fun and challenging lesson.
A question: you mention this is based on E major pentatonic, and the first lick is from pattern 4. Cool, I’ve been playing for years and have major and minor pentatonic down pretty well… but just to have this is front of me, I browsed web and found major and minor pentatonics and printed them. Ummmm, but your E major pattern 4 = their E major “position” 3. Is there a differnce in naming conventions? I mean there has got to be a standard right? I know that C major pent is A minor pent but using differnt root and starting position. But yipes! is there a MAJOR MINOR PENTATONIC i can print from YOURwebsite??? Thanks, I love love love your lessons Jeff
Fun lesson. Thanks!
I went to the rhythm tab and spent a few minutes playing adjacent string notes with a thumb and forefinger pinch when I noticed you’re playing these notes with a thumb thru both strings. Is there tab notation available to indicate the thumb plays both notes? Thanks.
I didn’t have time to add that to tab – just assume all of the bass stuff to be played with the thumb. you can pinch if need be though
Thanks Brian!
Thanks Brian! Love the Ragtime progressions! you are the absolute best!
I went ahead and cancelled the membership. If you ever make the tab easier to read (larger and in bold) I will come back. But you insist on putting so many bars to each line and making the font so small and light I have to re-write anything anyway. Come on bro. Get a clue. Fix it and let’s move on.
Maybe you need new glasses and have to start looking at yourself.
Bye Ronald…this is a fantastic piece with about 112 small lessons buried in the changes. Thanks for what you do for so little cost to us!!
Ronald H –
I have two alternatives. to cancellation that you might want to explore. ]
If you look at the video tablature section of the lesson, you will notice a box with sliders which when clicked includes a command to allow you to print the music and tablature. I use this to create copies of Brian’s tabs since the tabs print in bold and are very easy for me to see. It uses a little more paper, but is much easier to read.
If that is not something you are interested in, I have found that using the print menu that pops up when you elect to print a regular page of Brian’s tablature allows you to increase the size of the print image. I have found, on my setup and printer, that increasing the size to 69% provides a small but significant increase in print size. More than 69% clips the title, at least when using my system.
Hope one or the other works for you.
Regards,
Mike D
Love it great! Both parts are fun to play actually began combining the two together. Surprise myself. You are such a great teacher. Thanks
Having heaps of fun with this one. I’m just strumming the rhythm part and trying to put in lead fills. Which I can actually do now thanks to the lessons in this site. Thanks once again Brian.
Thanks for another toe-tapping lesson, similar to EP605, but this time paying homage to “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue from the 1920’s.
Brian, you always hit the right notes with your lesson material. Love the chord progression.
Yes, Five Foot Two, as soon as I heard the first two measures I put the guitar down and picked up my Uke and played it in the key of C . Very first song I learned my heart. Great lesson.
Nice tune, has grown on my quite a lot over the week, i like the feel and the Ab, diminished touches and nice chord progression even though the key remains the same. I’m only playing on 60% speed but can do it without looking at fretboard which is cool.
I’m really liking the lead sheet with the tabs and notes. I can go my own speed and get better at the flavourable little runs! I’ve used them before but I think, now, I’m becoming a better reader of those sheets. Thx. Keep ‘‘em coming!
Brian,
I LOVE the ragtime stuff, very fun to play and sounds like a party in my ear. Thank you!
Wow! What a brilliant composition. The note choices are nothing like as ‘obvious’ as first listening, or even Brian’s explanation, may suggest. I found both parts tricky, but two weeks into this lesson I am close to blowing the dust of my looper and going for it.
Congratualtions Brian, and thank you.