After listening to several hours of Freddie King instrumentals, I came up with this little 12 bar blues (in B) that I feel is a fair representation of some of Freddie's more common licks / approaches to playing blues. Freddie always sounds completely effortless, but you'll find that there is a lot of sweat that goes into some of these licks! I'm not saying that to discourage though, throughout the videos in this lesson, I'll break it down in detail so that even a beginner can accomplish most … [Read more...]
Slow Blues Guitar Lead Lesson (in the key of B), With No Accompaniment – EP017
I wanted to take a different approach when creating this guitar lesson. Typically I like to plan my lessons out, write out all of the parts so that everything lines up perfectly, create the tab, jam tracks, and then FINALLY create the video. However, with this lesson, I decided to just let the camera roll so that I could improvise some blues stuff in different keys, and see if anything was worth trying to teach to someone. I found about a minute and a half of a solo that I thought sounded … [Read more...]
