Damn, mate!... that was the COOLEST Little Blues lesson I've ever SEEN... And I'm 64!!.. Not ONLY were ALL the individual licks COOL, PURE Blues, but I didn't know, you were going to put them all together at the end to make an awesome little BLUES SOLO!!! I KNOW I speak for a million guitarists when I SAY, THANK YOU, my brother!!!... YOU have earned your way into HEAVEN, making a lot of people HAPPY!
I've been playing for 40 yrs off and on ....always seem to put it down after a few months due to getting stuck in that same old blah mode but you Jules have changed the way i think as well as hear the small changes as the minor and major 3rds slides even though I have known them you have showed me how to use them ...its almost scary the avenues you unknowingly open for me as well thousands of others I'm sure .As not to be to forward....... On behalf of all Id like to thank you with a firm handshake! Thank You!
I feel guilty telling people I've been playing for 30 years cause you'd never know it hearing me play....but he does open these paths that have always been here ,just hidden til the time was right ......maybe??
Same here on and off last 40 yrs. This was good information. Unfortunately not every guitarist can teach this guy has a great way to explain it using these techniques in an actual song is the best way to learn. 👍👍👍👍👍 to this teacher.
This is why I love the blues. Simple techniques that add your feel and flavor and sound awesome whether fiddling with the pentatonic box or using everything. The soul of guitars are locked in the blues
Learnt to play my first ever small blues piece through one of your other video's, which I thought for a minute I could never get, but because you explained and broke everything down so well, coupled with a bit of practice and pushing through the mental challenges of nailing the licks, I finally got there, thank God! You sir, are an absolute legend! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge and your attention to detail and ability to make things so much more easier to understand. Now, I'm excited to learn these new licks. God bless you, Jules.
This video should be printed and sold as The Blues Bible. This guy could sell it for $100 per copy and make a fortune; or, he could post it as he has out of the goodness of his heart simply for the betterment of mankind which includes probably at least 1/2 the people on the planet who play or want to play the guitar.🎸
Thing is some says this shit in every guitar video but it’s actually true this time 😂 Doesn’t ramble for 5 min Starts with the intro jam “Wish I knew this 25 years ago” Organized af Good shit👍🏼
I started playing in the cave days at 7 back in the 60's, but it became my obsession when I was 14 in 1974 (still the cave days) when we had to keep lifting the needle off the record to learn a song or rewinding a cassette a zillion times. The advantage is that I developed a really good ear and the ability to isolate just one instrument while listening to the entire song, but how I wish I would have had a video like this back in the day, as well! I can't even express how awesome and life changing having things like this are!! My playing has skyrocketed. So overwhelming though! Sometimes there's too much information available!!!
Wow dude I payed lots of $$$ for online courses and none of them compared to this amazing lesson, I love your style and the way you explain this lesson in full detail ,thanks for sharing ✌from Canada
Dude! Why didn't you show me stuff like this 30 years ago? Oh yeah, no YT back in those days. Thank you for your time, patience, and string sacrifices. You are a natural teacher. You have a perfect speed in the way you get this information across. Not too fast, not too slow, but at an informative pace that even I can process. I'm a drummer with no place to turn my cell phone volume up, never mind smashing DW's , so the music has to come out somehow and that vessel is a Fender Squier.
I can only agree with the vast majority. This is excellent. I also agree with you when you said that this was what you wish you could have learned 25 years ago; so do I. Well done fellow Brit.
Superb lesson, very well done, no one else has done a lesson like this. Its at the right tempo (ie not too slow many youtubers drag out lessons for too long) and very clear, tabs are great.
You're such a great teacher! Thank you! This for sure pushed me way beyond the box licks I've been doing for 13 years!!and yes, I will mix these licks to other keys!
Jules great Blues improvisation lesson, loved it. Just need to build up the tempo... thank you for this !!. I've been playing just 7 years but love the challenge.
Outstanding lesson I ran across another one of your lessons earlier this morning. I will be subscribing. You're truly generous with your knowledge, I'd have to say that most people don't do what your doing and I like it.
I had to sell my gear at the beginning of covid and now I’m in a position where I can get back into guitar. Kinda feel like I have to relearn a lot of stuff. I’ll definitely be using this lesson 👍
i love this, more to it than first appears, took me a while to be able play it through slowly, so still working on it. It has a lot of technique and phrasing. Thanks!
This is mind boggling excellent!! Like giving years of secrets away for free…I’m going to practice this over and over and over.he seems a genuinely pleasant person to be sat next to on a long journey 👍
This is just fantastic. I love everything about this tutorial. The pace is perfect, as are your explanations and repetitions of the licks. Absolutely amazing.
Thank you very much, Jules. Brilliant, eye-opening tutorial and great to have that extra info on how the licks/notes relate to the blues scales and chords. Have you got any more videos like this one? Or similar ones you could recommend?
Once again, how useful is this! All the time, I know that my bandmates will either stay on a chord, or a simple progression, while I have a go at a solo. And I freeze, just playing the scale, maybe a bit of riffing, but nothing that interesting. This sort of practice prepares us for those moments. 👌👍👏👏
Nice guitar! Looks just like mine. I just bought a 2019 American professional in that blue with the maple fretboard from a buddy. I won’t say what I paid for it because it would make you super jelly. $650. 🤷🏻♂️ Just subbed. Great video!
Thank you for making this video. Learning can be overwhelming this is incredibly useful! Can't say enough how much it helped bridge together a lot of the theory for me :)
Where have you been before man? This video is so ridiculously helpful. I always heard these "blues clichees" but never really understood what is happening there. As you say in the beginning of your video: The video I am so happy to see now, not in 20 years from now. You got a subscriber! Where can I give you my money? Patreon?
Great lesson! 👌🏼Thank you! Strings tend to break at that sharp edge from the hole in the trem plate where the string goes at an angle from the saddle into the bloc. I round that edge with a round needle file (or a dremel) and smoothen with fine sand paper. Also good to lube that spot afterwards. (I noticed, it broke at the headstock. Maybe some sharp edge there too…)
Amazing! If you had tabs I could print out, with the parts labeled etc. I would have gladly paid for them. As it is I will write my own from your excellent lesson. Thank you!
Hey jules , just discovered your channel , please do more of those no backing track needed music pieces , i find myself enjoying playing it more and I don’t find anyone on youtube doing it , please more videos of this no accompaniment rock and blues pieces mixing rythm and lead Thank you in advance
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Thanks! Priceless lesson!
Damn, mate!... that was the COOLEST Little Blues lesson I've ever SEEN... And I'm 64!!.. Not ONLY were ALL the individual licks COOL, PURE Blues, but I didn't know, you were going to put them all together at the end to make an awesome little BLUES SOLO!!! I KNOW I speak for a million guitarists when I SAY, THANK YOU, my brother!!!... YOU have earned your way into HEAVEN, making a lot of people HAPPY!
Will you still need me? Will you still feed me?
Amen Brother
the fact that you very tastefully and comedically included the string break, make this video so much more awesome. thank you
Not everyone who can play, can teach. You can play AND teach really well! Love the simple step by step break downs. Thank you!
I can easily say that this is one of the best blues lesson on TH-cam. Thanks
Totally agreed
I've been playing for 40 yrs off and on ....always seem to put it down after a few months due to getting stuck in that same old blah mode but you Jules have changed the way i think as well as hear the small changes as the minor and major 3rds slides even though I have known them you have showed me how to use them ...its almost scary the avenues you unknowingly open for me as well thousands of others I'm sure .As not to be to forward....... On behalf of all Id like to thank you with a firm handshake! Thank You!
I feel guilty telling people I've been playing for 30 years cause you'd never know it hearing me play....but he does open these paths that have always been here ,just hidden til the time was right ......maybe??
Same here on and off last 40 yrs. This was good information. Unfortunately not every guitarist can teach this guy has a great way to explain it using these techniques in an actual song is the best way to learn. 👍👍👍👍👍 to this teacher.
This is why I love the blues. Simple techniques that add your feel and flavor and sound awesome whether fiddling with the pentatonic box or using everything. The soul of guitars are locked in the blues
Thanks! Wow! Your lessons would cost a fortune. You will make me a better guitarist. Can’t wait to whip some of these licks on my buddies 😂.
Learnt to play my first ever small blues piece through one of your other video's, which I thought for a minute I could never get, but because you explained and broke everything down so well, coupled with a bit of practice and pushing through the mental challenges of nailing the licks, I finally got there, thank God!
You sir, are an absolute legend! Thank you for your wealth of knowledge and your attention to detail and ability to make things so much more easier to understand.
Now, I'm excited to learn these new licks. God bless you, Jules.
Great to hear, cheers
This video should be printed and sold as The Blues Bible. This guy could sell it for $100 per copy and make a fortune; or, he could post it as he has out of the goodness of his heart simply for the betterment of mankind which includes probably at least 1/2 the people on the planet who play or want to play the guitar.🎸
Agree
Yea I agree, I like how his approach is no bullshit , straight to the point
He takes donations if you’re so inclined.
Thing is some says this shit in every guitar video but it’s actually true this time 😂
Doesn’t ramble for 5 min
Starts with the intro jam
“Wish I knew this 25 years ago”
Organized af
Good shit👍🏼
Yes, make a donation or two. It’s cheaper than $50 hr. Guitar lessons.
I started playing as a kid of 14 back in the mid 90s and would've loved to have vids like this.
I started playing in the cave days at 7 back in the 60's, but it became my obsession when I was 14 in 1974 (still the cave days) when we had to keep lifting the needle off the record to learn a song or rewinding a cassette a zillion times. The advantage is that I developed a really good ear and the ability to isolate just one instrument while listening to the entire song, but how I wish I would have had a video like this back in the day, as well! I can't even express how awesome and life changing having things like this are!! My playing has skyrocketed. So overwhelming though! Sometimes there's too much information available!!!
Yes.. this video deserves to be referred as the Blues Bible. Highly valuable practical techniques shown in simplified manner.. great work Jules.
Thanks so much! Great stuff!
This is one of the best blues lessons I've seen in a long time, thanks so much for putting this together!!
Not one but the best and most practical blues lesson in TH-cam. Thank you for your time to make this and share it man!
Literally the best blues lick video for intermediate players i think ive found yet.
This is a great lesson! Love how you talk theory and show tabs. Please make more*******
Some folks are just good teachers and that's about it really. 🙂🙂
Cheers mate!
It’s like you’re teaching the techniques of the pros…this is amazing man! Thanks you!
Wow dude I payed lots of $$$ for online courses and none of them compared to this amazing lesson, I love your style and the way you explain this lesson in full detail ,thanks for sharing ✌from Canada
Dude! Why didn't you show me stuff like this 30 years ago? Oh yeah, no YT back in those days. Thank you for your time, patience, and string sacrifices. You are a natural teacher. You have a perfect speed in the way you get this information across. Not too fast, not too slow, but at an informative pace that even I can process. I'm a drummer with no place to turn my cell phone volume up, never mind smashing DW's , so the music has to come out somehow and that vessel is a Fender Squier.
I can only agree with the vast majority. This is excellent. I also agree with you when you said that this was what you wish you could have learned 25 years ago; so do I. Well done fellow Brit.
This video has enhanced my playing in two days mate. Unreal! Thank-you
Superb lesson, very well done, no one else has done a lesson like this. Its at the right tempo (ie not too slow many youtubers drag out lessons for too long) and very clear, tabs are great.
I agree this mate is doing something right.
You're such a great teacher! Thank you! This for sure pushed me way beyond the box licks I've been doing for 13 years!!and yes, I will mix these licks to other keys!
This guy is really good at not only playing, but teaching. I easily understood everything he was trying to explain, well tought!
Truly excellent lesson. So much useful material here superbly explained and demonstrated, and the tabs are a Godsend. Thank you, Sir!
I take each of these Maybe 2 licks a day and integrate into my brain and playing until they're solid, thank you.
I wish I'd seen this video 20 years ago too. Exactly the kind of tutorial I'm looking for. Thanks.
Thanks!
This is awesome! So much to digest, need to watch it a few times. Thankyou!
You make the blues riffs so easy for us beginners to learn. LOVE your channel!!!!
Excellent lesson. Thank you very much for sharing
Jules great Blues improvisation lesson, loved it. Just need to build up the tempo... thank you for this !!. I've been playing just 7 years but love the challenge.
million dollar video right here!!!! ...thank u sooooooooo much ❣️
Well, some things I do, some I learned and forgot & some other stuff to tie it together
Will have to check these out on a guitar.
I am on a trip without my guitar…..😬 need to get going on this! So nice!
Just found your site. Great job. Best lesson I've seen.
this is awesome and i can't wait to get this dialed in ....so much goodness in here and great teaching style ..thk u
literally the best video ive seen, exactly what I was looking for how did I just see it! Cheers!
Been looking for these pointers for a while! TYVM!
I enjoy watching your video sir, and learn a lot thanks for sharing..watching from Philippines..
I like the color of your strat... and 👍 lesson ‼️
Thank you for sharing your time with high quality content that will help many, God bless.
And that’s how to get a new subscriber. And I’m sure I’m not the only one. Brilliant video. Looking forward to checking out more of your content.
Really appreciate the licks lesson the also provides ideas and techniques, great video and a lot of fun to jam to
Cant wait to get started on this Jules
Outstanding lesson I ran across another one of your lessons earlier this morning. I will be subscribing. You're truly generous with your knowledge, I'd have to say that most people don't do what your doing and I like it.
I had to sell my gear at the beginning of covid and now I’m in a position where I can get back into guitar. Kinda feel like I have to relearn a lot of stuff. I’ll definitely be using this lesson 👍
your lessons are so well presented... so clear, so easy to access. The best I've seen. Thank-you.
So much great information in one 15 minute video I could spend the next two months learning and inacting it.
i love this, more to it than first appears, took me a while to be able play it through slowly, so still working on it. It has a lot of technique and phrasing. Thanks!
if only all guitar vids were as good as this, I pure gold love this format thx bro. key of A always easiest to learn in and transcribe
This is mind boggling excellent!! Like giving years of secrets away for free…I’m going to practice this over and over and over.he seems a genuinely pleasant person to be sat next to on a long journey 👍
5 min in and I've already learned more than I have all year thanks bro good stuff
Wow, this was a great lesson, thanks so much!
Another awesome lesson thank you Jules
Thanks alot brother, keep the vibes high and remember to do something today that you can thank yourself for tomorrow!!!
This is just fantastic. I love everything about this tutorial. The pace is perfect, as are your explanations and repetitions of the licks. Absolutely amazing.
Thanks
So kind, thank you!
Subscribed! Amazing lesson. The TABs makes it so easy to follow.
Jules......totally excellent lesson man !!!
Love the style and the rhythm of the phrasing. Thank you!
Thank you so much. You are the best taecher i 've ever had. Greatings from Bad Pyrmont /Germany.
I spent last years playing scales suddenly music little by little is coming out thank you Jules
awesome video, learned so many little flourishes for my playing. love it!
Nice - fun adds to my noodling tonight!
I can’t wait to play this. Great work buddy
Thank you very much, Jules. Brilliant, eye-opening tutorial and great to have that extra info on how the licks/notes relate to the blues scales and chords. Have you got any more videos like this one? Or similar ones you could recommend?
Totally superb.
What more do I need? Short and sweet.... straight to the meat.
Absolute best !! Great lesson. Thank you....
Wow! Brilliant! I wish I'd learned that about 30 years ago.
Once again, how useful is this! All the time, I know that my bandmates will either stay on a chord, or a simple progression, while I have a go at a solo. And I freeze, just playing the scale, maybe a bit of riffing, but nothing that interesting. This sort of practice prepares us for those moments. 👌👍👏👏
A great refresher for me and your teaching is excellent to listen too
Nice guitar! Looks just like mine. I just bought a 2019 American professional in that blue with the maple fretboard from a buddy. I won’t say what I paid for it because it would make you super jelly. $650. 🤷🏻♂️
Just subbed. Great video!
Just discovered you today and really love this lesson. Subscribed!
Technique #1: 0:50
I - IV Rythm
Technique #2: 1:58
3rds
Technique #3: 2:55
Minor blue note
Technique #4: 3:50
Major blue note
Technique #5: 4:50
Chromatic chords
Technique #6: 5:57
Bendings
Technique #7: 7:55
Sliding 4ths
Technique #8: 8:44
6ths
Technique #9: 9:42
Major to minor reach out
Technique #10: 10:43
Double stop blues scale
Technique #11: 11:43
Turnaround
Technique #12: 12:41
Jazz chord ending
❤️❤️❤️
God bless you in Jesus name
Thank you for making this video. Learning can be overwhelming this is incredibly useful! Can't say enough how much it helped bridge together a lot of the theory for me :)
Excellent presentation, love the multi-loaded,-holistic approach; Thank You!
Such brilliance. High enjoyment watching you explain and play.
This is amazing. 10 out of 10. Well explained. I will be watching other videos of yours
Great lesson
Well done!
Thank you so much for the detailed instructions! The licks are so good!!! Yum.
Thank you. I am trying to learn the Blues, your lessons are clear and informative. Thanks again from a beginner.
Wow! Now I can play some blues jam with others. Thank you! Great Lesson!!
More of this and it will be the best channel on yt.
Great lesson, thank very much Jules. Clear and backed up the theory so we know exactly what we're meant to be doing
Great lesson. All sounds cool and nothing too complicated
Where have you been before man? This video is so ridiculously helpful. I always heard these "blues clichees" but never really understood what is happening there. As you say in the beginning of your video: The video I am so happy to see now, not in 20 years from now. You got a subscriber! Where can I give you my money? Patreon?
This is excellent content and well done. Please do more videos like this w more blues/rock techniques.
Great lesson! 👌🏼Thank you!
Strings tend to break at that sharp edge from the hole in the trem plate where the string goes at an angle from the saddle into the bloc. I round that edge with a round needle file (or a dremel) and smoothen with fine sand paper. Also good to lube that spot afterwards.
(I noticed, it broke at the headstock. Maybe some sharp edge there too…)
Super good stuff and nicely compact presentation
Awesome! Thanks for this free lesson man!
Subscribed 😊
Amazing! If you had tabs I could print out, with the parts labeled etc. I would have gladly paid for them. As it is I will write my own from your excellent lesson. Thank you!
Hi Jules would you consider looking at thomman the German music store and their harley benton guitar,s
A goldmine of information here. Thank you.
Excellent. Well explained and very usable. Thanks.
You’re an amazing Teacher!!!! Blessings brother
What an amazing video lesson!! Thank you so much
Hey jules , just discovered your channel , please do more of those no backing track needed music pieces , i find myself enjoying playing it more and I don’t find anyone on youtube doing it , please more videos of this no accompaniment rock and blues pieces mixing rythm and lead
Thank you in advance