This guitar lesson showcases the very unique blues shuffle style that John Lee Hooker is probably best known for. This is intended for beginner and intermediate guitar players and can be played on either electric or acoustic guitar. … [Read more...]
Robben Ford Style Rhythm Guitar Lesson – Jazzy, Blues Chords – EP031
In this lesson, learn how to play a more interesting chord arrangement over a 12 bar blues jam track. This is similar to something the great Robben Ford would with a chord arrangement. Mixing jazz chords with blues chords makes being a rhythm player a lot more fun. :) … [Read more...]
Allman Brothers Lead Guitar Lesson – Dickey Betts Style – EP030
In this guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a short (but sweet) Dickey Betts inspired guitar solo. A lot of what creates that Allman Brothers sound was the fact that guitar solos were often played in the major pentatonic scale - which creates that "happy" sound. Learning how to switch between the major pentatonic and the minor pentatonic (sad) is key to playing great sounding solos, so hopefully you'll be able to take the notes that make up this solo and apply it to other songs! … [Read more...]
SRV Style Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – EP028
In this guitar lesson you'll learn how to play a Stevie Ray Vaughan inspired acoustic blues lead. I was originally preparing a jam track for this, but after listening to just the acoustic recording, I thought it worked better on it's own (with no accompaniment). This has an SRV influence (at least the first half for sure), and the melody sounds familiar but I wasn't able to identify what song it came from - so if you know, send me a message! … [Read more...]
Rockabilly, Carl Perkins Style Guitar Lesson – EP024
In this guitar lesson, I’ll break down this Carl Perkins inspired Rockabilly guitar solo into 2 parts. Rockabilly is sort of a hybrid between country twang and blues and can be a lot of fun to play. However, one of the challenges of playing this style of guitar is that it can be very fast. I mention in the video that I’m really not a very fast guitar picker (in the traditional sense), but I’ve managed to learn a few tricks that involve slides, pull-offs, and hammer-ons with the left hand that … [Read more...]
Eric Clapton Style Acoustic Lead Guitar Lesson: EP015
In this blues guitar lesson I’ll show you how to play an acoustic lead guitar part. This is a follow-up to EP014, the acoustic fingerstyle blues guitar lesson, in which I’ll show you how to play the rhythm part to this song. This song is an original composition and sounds very similar to something you might have heard Eric Clapton play on his Unplugged album. In the included jam tracks, I’ve included 2 versions. One version that has the rhythm guitar (so that you can practice this lead part), … [Read more...]
Acoustic Blues Guitar Lesson – Brian Setzer Swing Style – EP008
So the requests for more acoustic blues guitar lessons continue to come in - in fact of all the videos I've done, these acoustic blues lessons seem to be the most popular on YouTube - so I thought I'd continue to create new ones from time to time. I'm not 100% sure where this little riff came from.. I found myself lounging around the house playing this the other day and thought it would make a nice lesson (if anyone knows what this came from let me know!). Anyway, I thought it definitely had … [Read more...]
Albert Collins Blues Lead Guitar Lesson – LEG002
In this lesson I show you how to play an Albert Collins style lead guitar solo. I have listened to Albert's stuff for years and tried to learn some of the licks many years ago, but while creating this lesson I was surprised at 1) just how much of my playing was inspired by Albert and 2) how difficult it is to play it the way he does. When you watch him play he makes it look so effortless.. using just his thumb and pointer finger, his strap over his right shoulder - it just looks like might be … [Read more...]
Fingerstyle Delta Blues Guitar Lesson – LEG006
I've had several requests for more of a delta blues style lesson so I thought I'd compose a little piece and show you how to play it. I always dread trying to teach something like this because there is so much to show and I'm always afraid that I'm going to leave something important out - but after reviewing the video, I think I covered pretty much everything on this lesson. This is inspired by Robert Johnson (although nowhere near his level of complexity), you can hear some of his style in … [Read more...]
B.B. King Guitar Lesson – Understanding His Approach – LEG012
In this lesson I've decided to part from writing a solo "in the style of" and then teaching it to you note for note. I'm not sure how good of a lesson that is in the long term. When you're learning a new instrument, there will always be a fair amount of memorization in the beginning... but most people can never make it past the memorization part... they learn it.. and can replicate it, but then ask, "now what?". So I'd like to start explaining how the boundaries for guitar solos and rhythm work … [Read more...]