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In this week’s guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that includes several classic rhythm fills. I’ll show you how to transpose all of these licks and fills into other keys so that you can start using them when you improvise.
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Very nice! Hear a lot to chew on…..
You are the greatest Brian.
Brian: It’s like British invasion meets Americana blues/rock!! Very cool flow!! Jim C.
Good lesson & good jam tracks. Thanks Brian.
Myra.
A great lick library amalgamated into a fun lesson. As always, I appreciate your explanations.
I hear a lot of Keith in this one! Good Stuff
Can’t wait to learn this one! Thanks Brian
There is just tons of value strung together in in every chord change and lick. A great set of tools for any player, and a really good thought through workout even if lots of these elements are individually familiar. Thanks Brian.
Brian well more of the same …darn good lessons …Thanks you keep us eternally busy!
you know its a good one when you listen to the lesson at the intro and it makes you smile and laugh- because its so good. HA!
Brian, this video is chock full of so many good takeaways i can’t believe it. Thanks!
Great lesson Brian. Lot’s to learn, and great to noodle around with
Thanks
Ray P
Lots of classic stuff here Brian,one of your best mate.
Lick @ 15:10 is also in Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong-Spin Doctors. Very cool!
Just wanted to say that I loving this one and it’s really putting things in perspective Thanks again Brian!
You’ve banged in some cracking rhythm lessons recently with this one, 281 and 284. My rhythm planning is really improving as a result, Lots of great ideas and trying to mix those ideas across the three lessons is really helping to get them ingrained, One of my key goals for a while has been to learn this style of playing. ie adding interest to rhythm and improvising fills without losing the vibe and this is really helping. Thanks!
This lesson is next on my wish list! Very nice one Brain! By the way, could you do a new rockabilly lesson next time? Then I have a reason to dust of my Gretch guitar 🙂
Thanks very much for this, Brian.
As usual in your recording and melodies, there are elements that surprise me, and I really like being surprised in that context.
Wonderful flowing chord Connections, ideal for Improvisation and Arpeggios.
Dieter
Great, Brian, as always.
On the backing tracks, I am often faster than the slow one and slower than the fast one. Would you consider making a single lead or rhythm backing track with adjustable speeds?
Second, when doing the pedal steel bends, how do I know which ones work over which chord? Wherever the harmonized thirds or sixths are over that chord?
See my post below on Audacity.
So much I want to work on from your website Brian. Can’t wait until this summer when I retire from trucking and have more time with music. But this one I’ll dig into now. Love it. Thanks.
To Mark C: download Audacity. It’s free and you can speed up or slow down an mp3 without changing pitch if you want to. Actually it’s very versatile. I often take Brian’s backing tracks and put them into a speed I prefer.
Thank you, Robert B, and Merry Christmas!
Hi Brian,
Just got through learning this latest lesson. You are absolutely the best at helping students learn how to connect various parts of the fretboard, and making sense out of making music.
Normally, I’m a lurker, and I rarely post on forums or message boards, but I just had to say thank you for doing what you do, and doing it the way you do it.
Regards and happy holidays to you and yours!
Tony Elias
Brian your lessons are great, learn so much, thanks for such a awesome site to learn from. Keep it up ! My only regret is not enough time to work on your lessons, if I could only sit around and play guitar, all would be perfect, Merry Christmas and wonderful holidays.
Great Take a ways!
Thank You,
Brian!!
This is now ranks with the James Burton and Muddy Waters lessons as my favorites on Active Melody. I love learning the little elements in these lessons.
Brian, I hear you about the chuck Berry style.. so versatile and great practice here..finally started this and see what you mean!solid rock&roll blues lesson here and fun for sure!! ty
I’m hearing Down South Jukin by Skynyrd. Good fun!
Top Shelf Brian
I was wondering, if you could take a hand full of chords and in a future tutorial, actually walk
us through coming up with these melodies and solo concepts. It is easy to follow you and see what you are doing but
its a whole different thing to create it. I am only a few months now learning from active melody only, so I am sure it will come
in more time, still I would like to see that tutorial.
Make it complicated
Happy Holy
Times
Great vid! So many ‘take aways’ that i’ll use in other jams. What I find funny is that people never use the F chord in the CAGED system. I understand it’s an extension the E chord, but so many intros are basically an F chord (e.g. Up Around The Bend or Johnny B. Goode), and it’s an easy chord that most people know. Anyway Brian, thanks again!
Brian, I love this tutorial ………..a light goes off in my brain with all the jazzy licks. I will spend months getting this one down perfect.
Brian, this is awesome…love the Stones vibe…..so many gems in here. You have taught me so much. Thank you!
learned all the scales, modes and chords many years ago. (Think Adam Niti, Robin Ford) Sadly i just quit playing for a lot of years, now have the itch to play again, you know the story. No callouses no timing. but loving your site, No doubt I’ll be walking the neck fairly shortly.
Keep on doing the good job.
Later Man
Guess I screwed the pooch in this block, the post is above…..Sorry
Big ol’ pot of Rock n Roll Stew. Add a little Chuck Berry, Georgia Satellites, Spin Doctors, Doobie Bros, and a little bit of Stones, and of course let Brian cook it all up. This is so much fun to play. Sounds good on clean electric, distorted electric, and it’s a blast to play on acoustic too. Good jam to play at the music store.
Brian
There is so much information in this lesson I’m going to learn so much from this. Thank you so much.
Jeff
Great that Brian doesn’t confine licks into a narrow box — “this is country or this rock or this is jazz or blues” or whatever. The more vocabulary we have at our disposal, the more expressive we can be and, at the same time, interesting to the listener.
I can’t say enough how much I have learned from you. Thank you
enjoying lessons with you. But I have no idea where you already covered some of these techniques. I wish I did
Finished the lesson and I so happy that I stuck with you. Thank you Love your lessons