Archive for the ‘Blues Guitar Lessons’ Category

Learn 4 B.B. King Licks

This lesson video contains excerpts from my B.B.’s Influence lesson series, available today. You’ll learn 4 of the licks taught in that lesson series. If you like this lesson, you’ll love the full series, you can check it out here: B.B.’s Influence Lesson Series.

Freddie King Texas Guitar Boogie

Learn the boogie rhythm featured in one of the most popular Freddie King videos on YouTube. No picks, just your fingers. A simple rhythm, but very difficult to play.

SRV “So Excited” Picking Drill

Sometimes when playing “So Excited” live, Stevie Ray Vaughan would do an entire solo chorus playing a 4 string pattern on the fretboard, repeating the pattern over the I, IV and V chord. In this lesson I’ll show you what this pattern is, and how to play it with alternate picking strokes. It makes an [...]

Silent Night Hendrix/SRV Style Lesson

In this Christmas Eve Free Lesson Friday, I’ll show you how to take the simple chords progression of “Silent Night” and dress it up with some Hendrix and SRV style embellishments. The iTunes link for the backing track is after the video.

Texas Flood Sliding Double Stops

Here’s the cool sounding lick from the Album version of Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan, played during the last verse.

Cool SRV Box 3 Lick

A cool SRV lick that you can use at Bar #5 of a 12 bar blues progression, over the IV chord.

Live – Lightning Crashes – How to Play Acoustic Guitar Songs – Easy Tutorial

Improve Your Phrasing – Box 1

A lot of people ask me what notes should be used for ending licks, in order to have good phrasing. I have not covered this topic very extensively, so this lesson is a more in-depth look at phrasing in Box 1. Future lessons will explore this same topic in the other boxes.

Improve Your Phrasing – Box 2

The second lesson in this free series of guitar lessons, focuses on phrasing in the Box 2 shape, which I like to call the “Albert King Box”.

Improve Your Phrasing – Box 3

The third lesson in this free series of guitar lessons, focuses on phrasing in the Box 3 shape, which I like to call the “B.B. King Box”. Remember, the way I draw Box 3 comes from my “5 Essential Blues Boxes” and “Essential Fretboard” lesson series, not from blues scales.