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Free blues guitar lessons from Texas Blues Alley.
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Here’s how to play that signature ascending lick from SRV’s song “Tell Me” off of his debut album “Texas Flood”. I taught this lick incorrectly a few years ago, and it’s actually simpler than I thought.
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There is no feeling like looking back over your DOCUMENTED progress, a record of what you’ve worked on and accomplished. That feeling is the goal you need to keep in mind when you’re tempted to skip the simple step of writing down what you accomplished in your guitar study each day. Think of that feeling, and let the gravity of that satisfaction pull you through the chore of writing today’s work down.
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Michael Palmisano turned me on to a video of Prince playing his song “Cream” on acoustic guitar, and there’s an awesome blues lick right in the middle that jumped out at me as soon as he played it.
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Despite my best efforts to copy everything Stevie did, I somehow missed his downward vibrato technique. Later, when I noticed something was different, I just assumed there was no difference in sound between pulling and pushing the string. But in this lesson I’ll show you a few things about his downward vibrato technique that actually do make it sound different, and as a result, more like him.
I used to think that if I studied Stevie Ray Vaughan, I’d learn to play like Jimi Hendrix at the same time, but that’s just not true. In this lesson I’ll show you an embellishment from Little Wing that SRV never played, and as a result, I never learned…. until now.
Some of you (like me) will never be motivated to do anything by being told you “have” to do it. Not everyone is wired like a warrior, some you are explorers, and what’s going to motivate you is the opportunity to do something great, not pressure to be more disciplined. In this video I’ll talk about some of the ways that you can reframe how you think about guitar practice, turning it into something you “get” to do, rather than something you “have” to do.
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Here are two free lessons from my latest course called “Texas Hustle Rhythms - Vol. 1”. The course is a companion course for my Johnny Winter soloing course, and it teaches you 10 simple rhythms that match that style of song.
Some people are born with natural singing vibrato, the rest of us have to work for it. But nobody is born with vibrato on guitar, especially the kind of vibrato used on bent notes. In this lesson I’ll show you a simple technique for developing your vibrato while bending notes that comes directly from the singing lessons that helped me develop my vocal vibrato. I’m not a great singer, but I started with zero vibrato and now I can use it easily, mostly because of the technique I’m going to show you in this lesson.
What’s better than learning a new chord embellishment that sounds like Jimi Hendrix and is easy to play? Not much. This chord embellishment takes you from an E-Form to a C-Form chord and works over a IV to I, or a I to V chord transition.
The endurance and strength in your fretting hand (and forearm) play a big part in how long you can play blues well. Because we do lots of bending, our forearm and hand muscles are constantly being worked. In this video I’ll show you how to use trills in various positions to quickly work out these muscles in a complete and comprehensive way.
In this lesson I’ll show you how to play the ending for “Lenny” by Stevie Ray Vaughan, from the El Mocambo show. This version is slightly different than the studio version, and I actually prefer it. Members of our TXBA Locals program will get tablature to accompany this lesson.
Effort is like water. If you don’t channel it, it spreads out and loses all its power. In my time off camera, I’ve not always been very disciplined in channeling my creativity into a single project at a time and the results are months of accomplishing very little. I’m guessing that the same might be true for you guitar studying as well.
What do you get when you split up an E-Form chord into several parts, add some heavy raking, some muting, and SRV’s legendary heavy attack? You get the chorded lick I’m going to teach you in this lesson.
This lesson is all about repetition. While researching the solo for Johnny’s Influence: Texas Hustle I discovered many instances where he played the same lick multiple times in a row. In this lesson I’ll show you a few examples of how repeating a lick multiple times can add some flavor to your solos.
This lesson is based on my new course Johnny’s Influence: Texas Hustle and in it I’ll teach you a few things I discovered about Johnny’s playing - specifically in the Box 1 shape. These are not difficult or complicated things, but they contribute to the signature sound of his playing in a big way.
There’s a chord change right in the opening bars of “Wham!” by Lonnie Mack that I (somehow) didn’t catch until this week. In this lesson I’ll teach you the main rhythm for the song and show you a couple different ways to play the ending, including some differences between SRV’s cover and Lonnie’s original.
While working on a new course this week I stumbled onto a blues turnaround variation that I had never picked up on before. And that discovery led me to another turnaround variation which I’ll teach you in this lesson. Unlike most of the turnarounds I’ve used, this one uses three different strings instead of just two.
This is a remake of the first lesson I ever published, 15 years ago today on Oct. 21st, 2007. The lick taught in this lesson is what I consider to be the quintessential SRV Signature lick. Nobody before him (that I can think of) used it as often as he did, or played it exactly the same way. I’ll show you each part and then demonstrate it at various speeds over different style backing tracks. Our TXBA Locals members will have SoundSlice tablature to accompany this lesson.
When Stevie Ray Vaughan played a blues shuffle rhythm, he often mixed in some accents on the high strings using a syncopated rhythm. These accents are not complicated, but they do require some practice. In this lesson I’ll show you how to add these accents to your shuffle rhythms in 9 different levels.
In this lesson I’ll teach you the rhythm parts from “Chase The Rainbow” off of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s sophomore album “Trouble Is”, released in 1997. This rhythm part is a good example of mixing small licks with chords to create a huge sound. The free lesson breaks down the rhythm from the verses, but the extended lesson (for TXBA Locals members) breaks down the rhythm parts of the whole song and includes tablature and a backing track.
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