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In this blues guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play both rhythm and lead over this slow, bluesy chord progression. Both rhythm and lead are played without a pick, so you’ll be using only your fingers on your right hand. It’s all played very slowly, making it fairly easy to play along. In addition to learning how to play this composition, you’ll learn the context behind the notes to help improve your ability to improvise on the guitar.
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Another favorite! All the lessons are great, but the pure blues songs are the best!
Michael
Brian!!! It’s great!!!! Thank you sooooooo much!!!!!!!!
I have to finish studying an older lesson but cannot wait to try my hand on this one.
Good job. FYI – over on the BluesGuitarUnleashed forum you are well known to most of us – and there is a lot of us. Keep up the good work.
Brian,
When I go to download the tab for this lesson, I am getting EP157 instead of 158. Is this issue on my end or yours?
Rip
same problem here.
Oops, i had the wrong title. This has been fixed. Good catch!
Also cool on the first part of this nice progression…..just to further mix things up and make it even more interesting; play the same first two chords an octave higher at the 8th to 10th fret on the 4th, 3rd & 2nd strings to the low G power chord. You have to account for the B string and move up a fret on the second string but….it’s definitely cool to extend this jam even further! Jim C.
Love this, going to get on it….very smooth
Thank you Brian.
I love these smoky slow blues lessons with leads that tie it all together.
Smokey Slow Blues
Brian, it’s so hard to concentrate on one thing when you keep throwing up such cool new lessons.
John
Another great lesson. Thanks for right hand fingering tips, I found I favored index & middle, not letting ring finger play, making my play inefficient and somewhat clumsy at times.
Sounnds great will love it when i get to catch up with it if it doesnt jump the que great lesson thanks Brian
Great Lesson Brian. No kidding. Thank you for taking the time to pin point “finger economics” . I have found through your lessons the value of “less finger movement the better” in harmonics and chordal changes. Many thanks.
Brian,
Great lesson. I’d like to ask that you continue the great detail for the groove you have at the beginning and be sure to carry it thru to the end. Then some detail on going back around. I’ve noticed that the end of the groove seem to get less attention in a couple of lessons.
Yay, this one goes straight onto my list of favorites. I’m starting on it tomorrow.
hi Brian… love this one…
but could you clarify ? isn’t the little solo in part one at about 23 mim in , first position pentatonic in G ?
warren.
Yes and no. You could say that I was going from pattern 2 to pattern 1 of the G minor pentatonic scale. OR you could look at it as pattern 4 from the D minor pentatonic scale. Both answers would be correct. When I came up with that part I was thinking D (because the song shifts gears at that point), but you’re also right in that you could think of that as G minor pentatonic scale.
It’s all good, I think it is smooth and easy with finger style but right now (last two days )practicing to get June challenge ep065 and ep066 in before eom..Brian you are genius my man, keep em coming!
another pure blues lesson to distract me….the solo portions are some of the best you’ve done in the last 3 years!!
Roberto
What more could one say…just plain excellent
I’m sure J.J. Cale is smiling down on you right now
realy enjoying your input 🙂
This comes at a time when I’m focusing a lot on JJ Cale. This is going to be my main goal for a while. Thanks Brian!
Been wishing hard for JJ Cale influenced lessons. Thank you so much.
There cannot be enough J.J. Cale lessons, but how about the EP143 Robert Cray tutorial….
Which favourite player to pick up first?
Thanks for another great lesson, Brian!
happy about joining your site – pretty good and helpful explanations with fun factor !!
Really nice, thank you, Brian!
Good job, thanks for the lesson. The difference between an amateur -like me- and a professional is a.) keep rhythm, b.) accuracy. In rhythm pov this one is not so difficult. Accuracy is always a challenge :).
This is a stunning lesson. Sounds wonderful and a lot of fun to play. Haven’t really heard a lot of J.J. Cale but this really makes me want to find out more. A lot more.
Sorry about the dupe.. If someone could delete it so I don’t look like an idiot I’d be grateful 🙂
I am guessing but, counting off the major scale , would this be considered “playing in 5ths” ?.. I’ve just noticed this in the tab these are all 5 chords ! ( I’ll remember this better as finger plucking bar chords.. playing the one and the five with couple extensions b7 #7 very cool lead licks too..still enjoying this but going to look at 159 tonight!!!! very fun ty Brian
Fab Brian i knew this one would take a bit longer playing fingerstyle it feels so unnatural to me , but your right perseverance and it soon comes .Some great take away’s aswell the 2 double stop slides in relation to the scale and the fourth pattern minor scale relative to the notes along the A string . Well executed all round great video and narration if that is the right word .
Wonderful lesson. JJ is one of my favorites. In this genre how about some Tony Joe White?
Loved it. Nice points about chord voicing.