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Solo Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Rhythm with Fill Licks – EP169

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In this blues guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play a stand-alone blues composition that requires no jam track or accompaniment. This works great on acoustic or electric guitar. This lesson primarily focuses on strumming and rhythm, although it does include some fill licks as well. I’ve also included arrows in the tablature to help break down the strum pattern.

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  3. Jeem says

    Brian,

    I for one GREATLY appreciate your adding of the strum direction arrows! There have been a few rhythm lessons where I’m driven my self crazy trying to match your strumming visually while listening to, “up-up-up-down-up” Etc..

    At this point, I like you holding my hand too!

    Jim

  6. Tim Lee says

    Brian,
    Great lesson. I agree with Jeem – adding the arrows for the strum pattern is a really helpful addition. Hopefully you can continue to have the arrows for future strum related lessons.
    Thanks so much!
    Tim

  7. SugarmillMan says

    Brian,
    I love to learn your stand-alone Blues compositions that can be played with just one guitar.

    These kind of lessons are exactly the ones I wait for each Friday night ( and the reason I initially became a regular.)

    Please keep these kind of lessons going. These are wonderful to learn and play!

    Dan

  8. blues46 says

    Hey Brian, FYI. I appreciate you explaining things during the lessons. This is why I have been a member for a couple years. It provides me with a complete package and understanding that can be carried on to learning other songs. It makes me think rather than just copying you.
    Joe

  17. nschlueter says

    “Talks too much”?!! I set aside an hour each Saturday morning to sit down with a cup of coffee and chat with my favorite guitar teacher. It is a relaxed, sitting-at-the-kitchen-table conversation that I treasure and I ALWAYS learn something new.

  19. Aaron R says

    Awesome lesson Brian !! I really like the mix of vintage country with blues. Very catchy and cool groove.

    This would be a great lesson to do a part 2 for. I’d love to know how to add lead licks that lead in to the next chord.

    As always, thanks for all the work you do.

    PS – I don’t feel you talk too much at all. Makes it feel like hanging out with a buddy, pick’n and a grin’n. I really appreciate the in depth explanations. I like learning how and why things work, not just memorizing the notes.

    Aaron

  22. drlknstein says

    nice lesson.. a lot of nice tricks for me.I love mssr johhny cash- Folsom Prison is one of my favorites…”shot a man in Rio…….- just to watch him die”…. rich folks drinkin fancy coffee and smoking big cigars..

    great take aways..expecially the walk down back to the one…awesome thanks

  24. madams says

    Please don’t change the way you present your lessons. I enjoy and benefit from your explanations and descriptions.

    Learning the theory along with the songs has been key to my improvement.

    Thank you,
    Michael

  25. GreggC says

    Another great one thanks!
    Regarding the over talking? A non issue, really.
    We have to understand that this might be the first lesson encountered by someone. Any of these might be “the first” and the only way to get across the amount of information that will be available is to treat them as if this was the first meeting.
    I can always learn something!
    Cheers!

  26. Countryman says

    Hi Brian,

    I for one, disagree with whoever said you talk to much during the lessons. Although I have been been playing, on and off, for more years than I care to remember, I have reached an age, where information doesn’t always embed itself in the old ” Grey Matter,” for very long, like it used to do! The way you talk us through each lesson, maybe repeating things said in previous lessons, is a great help, and is a necessary reminder of the constituents that are so important when attempting to learn new pieces. I am sure I speak for many Old Timers like myself, when I say ” Keep on Chatting” during the lessons. I find it a great help in my efforts to improve my skills.

    Many thanks Brian, you do a really great job.

    Regards.

  28. Jon G says

    Thank you for your great lessons Brian! So glad I became a member recently. I learned more in two videos than I did in several weeks with a book!

    And that’s down to your style. Please keep the chat going. I tend to try and learn what and why you are doing things rather than maybe learning the lesson note for note. 🙂

    Thank you, Jon

    PS. more Gilmour style please!! 😉

  31. pat m says

    Hi Brian. Just want to say thank you for all these wonderful lessons. Ive learned soooo much in a short time. The MAIN reason i joined your site is because you explain things very well and i just love your playing. Out of hundreds of video lessons i’ve watched, your playing actually makes me smile when i hear something i like. Tim Pierce has a free lesson on YT, and his playing also makes me smile. I just love the blues and in your BB lesson i smiled a lot with those simple but powerful bends and vibrato you make look so easy. Keep up the awesome work Brian!!

  33. Manley says

    Why can’t I watch the on screen tab viewer? It says check the url. Not only this lesson but on all the lessons it says that. I can watch all the lesson videos the slow walk through and download the tabs and audio track. Just not the on screen tab viewer.

  35. Clifford H says

    Thanks Brian. I’ve messed around with the guitar for years and years. What’s been missing is to be able to play some songs by myself. I love Gypsy Walz and now this one. Being a premium member is well worth the price.

  36. rjritt says

    Brian, just gotta say I subscribe for exactly this type of lesson. Love the strumming songs with the fill licks, I can sit on my porch and grove to my hearts content. It is a bit harder for even an intermediate to pick up the strum patterns, if you could go through a just a little slower some of us would greatly appreciate it! Highest Regards, Rick

  37. justin N says

    I always take something usable from these lessons. Even if I’m not playing it exactly the same. There’s always a golden nugget in these lessons that can be used in anything you are playing. Keep up the good work. Glad to be a member!

  38. Michael R says

    This is one of my FAVORITE lessons ever .. Number one being the Delta Blues piece .. Thanks for creating such a fun original composition Brian. Also, the arrows on the tab on INSANELY HELPFUL, please keep adding those it’s saving me so much time and headache

    Lastly, I love your comment to the complainers that are just freeloading and not subscribing .. They want everything handed to them, yet aren’t willing to join your value-packed site.. Sad, I hope they wise up and realize how much great content you have here — your site is SECOND TO NONE!

  39. olive says

    Hi Brian, great lesson again. I am so much fund of your accoustic blues style.

    One question about the 7th mesure. On which scale is it based ? I don’t recognize the E minor patterns, though I’ve seen you several times playing over these several notes (EP013 Delta blues Original for instance).

    Thanks in advance for your help

    Greetings from Paris

    Olivier

  41. Johan L says

    This was an awesome lesson! Not technically hard but good for rhythm and really fun to play as well as improvise around!

    Now back to lessons #13. I have two small details I still haven’t got down to an exact replica of the way you play it. 🙂

  44. Dario R says

    Loved it ! This is another great lesson!
    I’ve got a question regarding the Alvarez you’re playing which btw sounds amazing..
    Is the fret width pretty much the standard size ?

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