The Secret To Stevie Ray Vaughan's Life By The Drop | Most Miss This One Thing!

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The Secret To Stevie Ray Vaughan's Life By The Drop!
Today I wanted to share with you a little secret to playing rhythm guitar like Stevie Ray Vaughan. SRV was an incredible lead player and could leave audiences awestruck with his mind blowing solos, but one of my favorite aspects of his guitar playing is actually his often overlooked rhythm style. Take a listen to "Cold Shot" or "Pride And Joy" and you'll hear exactly what I am talking about. In today's video I wanted to show you one key insight that most beginners miss when trying to play shuffle blues rhythm. That one thing is understanding how much muting plays a part in getting the sound.
It's just as important to understand when not to play as it is to know when to play. Learn how to make this muting style happen with both your strum hand and fretting hand in today's featured lesson.
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[@fixedrider5912]

Brilliantly taught, thank you!

[@markkennard861]

Your very talented. I have every SRV album but never held a guitar. Id love to make a start one day.

[@dickiebrewer1232]

Dude! Sooogood

[@Tom-wm4gy]

Awesome lesson!
Details...details...
That's the secret!
Thank you so much, Sir!

[@malcolmmiller7878]

Awesome lesson! You just taught me a new technique. Thank you John!

[@drummer5461]

Great insight John! That space was where the drums accented, creating the groove along with the bass. And Stevie was all about the groove and playing in the pocket as we know. Thanks for the great lessons.

[@geraldbrown2875]

Great lesson, you even pulled out the Guild 12 string-string! SRV back in August 23, 1987👍🎸🇨🇦

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Hi Jon MacLennan, wow you got your 12 String Guitar strung up with Fresh Strings & it's ringing again.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Octave4Plus makes 12 String Guitar Strings where the B Strings are in Octaves thanks to the .006 High B String. The High B (.006) is thinner than the High G so that way the tension wouldn't be too much.

[@RussellStClair-cy1vu]

Thanks 👍 great lesson

[@Shadowise-46.2]

Yes! That’s sounds a lot better; a lot cleaner! I.

[@phillancello350]

John, Thank you sooo much, always liked playing that song. It is the little things that get overlooked in a song that you bring to the table that make all the difference...Thanks again.

[@reddsflies]

Thanks for the SRV lesson!

[@lsilvaj]

GREAT CONTENT, DUDE... THANKS

[@dgmg1578]

Great lessons now I know how he did that thank you

[@wogeyboy1]

Great one, Jon! I love your Guild! (SRV played one too on the MTV Unplugged recordings)

[@charlesgrandt9012]

Great lesson! Any chance youll ever cover the electric Doyle Bramhall version?!
Seems like it has a few different riffs I cant get right

[@markmartin3221]

Nailed it John! Thanks so very much!
I have a 12 string but need any help you can give me in tuning it in standard tuning. If you have the time I’d really appreciate a video lesson. I am subscribed so I should get notified. Thanks in advance

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

There's a video for that already

[@larrysquires5321]

Good stuff, Jon. You do good work.
Sounds like he's sweeping. He's a sweeping guitar player, ie. a "feel" player. Not necessarrily someone playing on the down-stoke, - altough, probably capable of making it sound just the same either way.
Any thoughts?

[@Shadowise-46.2]

Are you doing all down strokes through the whole song? I’m not an expert guitar player, so I’m
learning to play songs from different TH-cam tutorials. I had been doing down up strokes because I thought that was how S.R.V. does it and I hadn’t noticed anyone do it differently. I was palm muting and kind of getting that choppy shuffle sound too but after watching you play it I think this way sounds better.
Is this a song with 100% down picking?

[@shinner65]

That’s pretty awesome. This song seems like it was written for a 12 string. Sounds so good. 👍🏻

[@thec.i.a605]

The original recording is originally on a 12

[@shinner65]

@@thec.i.a605 right…what I meant was that it just wouldn’t sound right played on a 6 string.

[@henriquemoura8440]

bro is a legend, a mix of John Lennon and John Mclane

[@wakeup9558]

🤣😂🤣stevie ray had massive fingers

[@karthikeyanmony2997]

Am I the only one who thought he looks like Jason Mraz 🤷

[@arielstaubitz2252]

That's the secret? Haha

[@flaviusfake271]

I just palm mute it.

[@Labi5150]

Thats’s wrong. SRV strums down up down up. That’s his famous shuffle.