Free Lesson Friday

Bold As Love Song Guide Course In this lesson we’ll study a very cool chord embellishment that Jimi Hendrix played in the song “Bold As Love”. Jimi was able to create a feeling of movement when he played rhythm, and in this lesson we’ll look at how he does that by skipping the root of a chord, jumping straight to the embellishment, then landing on the root of the following chord.

In this lesson we’ll look at the major soloing “themes” that Stevie Ray Vaughan used when he played the song Texas Flood. While each performance was unique, there were some things that stayed consistent. These themes are a big part of how he was able to stretch out the song without making it sound repetitive.

If you don’t know about Eric Gales, you should. In this lesson I’ll attempt to play and teach a lick from his latest album. This lick happens at 2:26 in the song “I Don’t Know”. It’s very fast, and requires a lot of picking. Links to his new album “Middle of The Road” EG @iTunes EG @Amazon EG @Spotify

Learn the very cool intro to the song “Honey Bee” by SRV from the album “Couldn’t Stand The Weather” TXBA Locals will get tablature with this lesson, plus a bonus 13 minute lesson that teaches several alternative ways to play it.

The Rival Sons are a band I learned about last year and have been listening to a LOT ever since. In this lesson you’ll learn the blistering intro, and core rhythm pattern to their song Secret off of the Great Western Valkyrie album. TXBA Locals will get tablature along with this lesson.

In this lesson we’re looking at the intro to Killing Floor, as covered by Jimi Hendrix. This is a fast, syncopated rhythm that Jimi played so fast that it’s hard to make sense of what you’re hearing. But when you slow it down and clean it up, you’ll find two simple patterns responsible for “that” sound. In this lesson I’ll teach you both patterns note-for-note. TXBA Locals will also get SoundSlice tablature with this lesson, along with Instant Loops pre-programmed around each individual part of the Demonstration.

In this lesson I’ll show you how to play a swingin’ blues rhythm in the key of E. It uses a lot of open strings so it has a nice ringing sound. We’ll start with a simple base, then add several embellishments to jazz it up. TXBA Locals Extras 10+ minute extended lesson Tabs Backing Track

I’ve had a number of people ask me for advice about how to effectively use open strings, so I’ve put together this lesson with every way I can think of using open strings in 4 different keys. There’s a lot covered, hopefully some of it will be useful.

This lesson is about those strange sounding chords at the very beginning of Highway Child by Jimi Hendrix. I’ll teach you the technique behind that strange sound. You’ve no doubt heard this used in songs, so I’ll also show you how to use it in other keys.

This lesson is about those two-note sliding chords that SRV used during Pride And Joy. Once you learn how to find the positions of these relative to the root note of the key, you can use them in any key.

In this lesson you’ll learn a short descending lick that Jimi Hendrix played in the song “Red House”. Although it is simple, I like it because it mixes major and minor, chords and single notes.

Albert King is known mostly for his intense slow blues playing, but his style also works really well over an uptempo rockin’ beat. The 12-bar solo you’ll learn in this lesson comes from a live performance of the song “Killing Floor” off of the “Blues At Sunset” album. There are only a few licks, and all of them are similar. But Albert was a master of nuance, and within these few licks, there’s a full range of expression - enough to cover 12-bars.

When I started playing guitar, all I could think about was playing fast - mostly because I wanted people to think I was great. Over the years I’ve learned to think of speed differently, using it as a tool more than as a “destination”. In this video I’ll share a bit about how I escaped the mentality that speed was all it took to be a great guitarist. But I’ll also talk about why I still think playing fast, or rather having having the technical capability to play fast, matters.

In this lesson I’ll show you how to play the rhythm part for the main 12-bar progression of “True Lies” by Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The underlying rhythm is familiar, you may recognize it from other songs, but there’s a few tricks to making it sound as heavy as he does.

Course Link Join The Locals This video features a previously unreleased performance of the Thanksgiving Ballad, shot last year. I’ve taken that performance and created a Quick Fix Mini-Course from it. There’s a sample from the course after the performance.