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MicroLesson: 001 – Enhance Your Blues Shuffle in A

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In this MicroLesson I’ll show you a simple enhancement to a blues rhythm shuffle over an A chord.

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Comments

  1. sierrabravo says

    April 14, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    Congratulations on 200 Episodes!

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    • richard T says

      April 16, 2017 at 10:36 am

      Congratulations Brian on a job well done . Your good guitar teacher . What I like about you is you always teach something new and refreashing. It makes playing guitar fun .

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  2. david holzberger says

    April 14, 2017 at 4:11 pm

    Thanks so much for being there.

    Best guitar teacher ever.

    Dave

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  3. Houseman says

    April 14, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    Way to go Brian! 200 hundred is something to celebrate!

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  4. guild618 says

    April 14, 2017 at 5:22 pm

    Great idea on the Micro Lessons , looking forward to checking all of them out.

    Congratulations on 200 episodes, I was look forward for the new lesson every Friday.

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  5. Will476 says

    April 14, 2017 at 6:08 pm

    Proud of u Brian you’ve come a long way pilgrim, and thanks to you so have all the rest of us. Let’s all play play play till our daddy takes our T-bird away!

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  6. kulakai says

    April 15, 2017 at 3:33 pm

    Thank you for adding the Micro lessons. and the added bonus of watching the longer explanation gives me a good understanding of the lesson. Once again thank you for helping me on my guitar journey.

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  7. John E says

    April 16, 2017 at 9:09 am

    Brian, congrats on the 200 lessons, the Micro lessons are such a cool addition to the site

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  8. richard T says

    April 20, 2017 at 9:46 am

    Love micro lesson one its really cool

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  9. twobows says

    April 22, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Thanks Brian !!! this is what I need. I have been a student of yours for several years. So glad to see Micro. Thanks again.

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  10. slowtrain says

    May 2, 2017 at 3:20 pm

    your a genius……. this is awesome, im really grateful that you came up with this concept….thanks brian!!!!!

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  11. Peter B says

    May 25, 2017 at 3:58 pm

    Thank-you to offer more (more to learn) with the Micro Lessons.

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  12. Andy pandy says

    February 8, 2018 at 5:25 am

    Loving the micros keeps the playing fresh keep up the good work Brian, love this site always plenty to learn………

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  13. Scott S says

    July 28, 2018 at 6:09 pm

    I’m pretty new to your courses, and to the guitar. I just found these little gems and they fit my speed perfectly, as opposed to the full lessons which are too advanced for me.

    Thanks Brian, I am loving your courses!

    Scott

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  14. Scott F says

    November 18, 2018 at 12:11 pm

    The VTB section sounded they Stoney’s as in ‘Midnight Rambler’. Well done.

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    • Scott F says

      November 18, 2018 at 12:12 pm

      Spell check does it again…….they=very.

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  15. Ron W says

    December 20, 2019 at 5:48 pm

    Tasty

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  16. Eugene S says

    August 4, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    the tabs don’t seem to match the lesson.

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  17. Frank S says

    March 18, 2022 at 1:57 pm

    I have been doing the micro lessons hit or miss and have decided to go back and walk through all of them one after another starting from the beginning. The micro-challenge

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