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Free blues guitar lessons from Texas Blues Alley.
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I picked up this lick from a Smokin’ Joe Kubek song, and it reminded me of something Jimi Hendrix played over the V chord in Red House. In this lesson I’ll show you where this pattern comes from and how to use it over the V and the IV chord during the last 4 bars of a 12-bar blues solo.
In this lesson I’ll show you how to drastically change the sound of a simple blues rhythm, just by changing how you mute the strings. This change in sound affects the entire ìfeelî of the song. Some techniques produce a rhythm with more ìpunchî while other techniques allow the rhythm to fill more space.
If you invest the time to learn Texas Flood, take the time to learn the ending correctly.
The next time you’re at a blues jam, don’t be the guy who plays the same rhythm lick all the way through the song. Albert King’s recording of this song had a GREAT rhythm guitar part, and that’s what I’ll teach you in this lesson.
Learn a very cool Freddie King blues lick from the song Me And My Guitar, taken from the Texas Cannonball album. This lick fills up the last 4 bars of the 12-bar progression and it sounds best with a 70s wide collar shirt.
A lesson that shows you how to play the rhythm part to Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top, using a guitar in standard tuning.
The syncopated, funky intro to Couldn’t Stand The Weather can be intimidating if you’ve not learned how to incorporate some of the funky Hendrix rhythm into your playing yet. This lesson is all about the ‘core’ of the riff - I break it into two parts and show you a couple different ways to play each.
From the song ‘Once I Had A Woman’ off of the ‘Blues’ album, this chorded turnaround is a tricky beast. But once you know the chords to play, it’s just a matter of nailing the timing. This lick will improve your looks and give you more confidence.
In this lesson I dissect one of the most impossible looking techniques that Stevie Ray Vaughan used. Found in songs like Tin Pan Alley and Dirty Pool, this fast ‘tremolo’ picking technique requires speed and endurance. I’ll talk about how to gradually increase your speed, the importance of consistency and endurance, and talk about the back-and-forth movement that Stevie did as he used this technique.
This is the final lesson in the Hendrix Machine Gun Vamping series. In this lesson I’ll show you a couple licks that help to round out the collection we’ve built but I’ll also show you a couple of ‘themes’ to use as you play in this style. These themes can really help you to play in this style for longer without sounding boring or repetitive.
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.
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.
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