I’m here for these explanations that come along with a song. Thank you so much please don’t change a thing despite the minority that complains about it
I get a kick out of it when you say things like "hopefully a light just went on for someone out there" - that light is usually coming on for me and things are starting to make more sense. Great teaching. Thanks
Brian consistently writes music weekly that amazes me, Active Melody members get PDFs, on screen tab videos and everything else a person can learn to become a guitarist and explains it. Excellent teacher at a very good price. You want to learn. Stick around
I have been waiting for a teacher that spoke my musical language. hope to have membership money soon, but you play all the elements of everything I love about Jerry Garcia. his bluegrass blues and country sensibilities. great stuff.
@@user-kc7kj6vr1u it's all there. at least my faves, like Jack a Row, shady grove stuff, and his bluegrass feel from his roots working mans, etc... if you want Jerry song lessons. check out Toby & Davy. you don't get the why. but he has the proper fingering.
Love these Acoustic Blues Play it by yourself stuff! And this one will be a fine example. Great for playing around, and astonishing your friends, (as well as yourself). Can't wait to get at that last Run you did near the end of the lesson. Tastey!
These stand alone lessons are brilliant. You always pick up fresh ideas and learn useful tips like introducing secondary dominant chords into the structure. These lessons inspire me to keep practicing and they are great fun to play. Many thanks to you Brian.
Brian, I think you must be inspired daily by all the compliments you receive. You really do have a unique way of communicating in guitar language to most players. For me personally, there are only a handful of online teachers worthy of subscribing to, and you are at the TOP. Thank you for bringing such great teaching to these lessons. I’m a better player because of you! 👍🎶
Really enjoy your teaching style, especially how you smoothly integrate intermediate level harmony and melody theory, as it applies to the structure and context of the tune👍. This old Mississippi blues style lesson really hooked me.
Your the perfect teacher for “failure to launch” guitar player like me. Learned the pentatonic major and minor scales with the blues note, some triads (E,A&D), hybrid picking and still can’t bring it all together. Your videos are making a difference. Thanks!
Thank you for the time you take for the extra explanation. Some people over explain and I get too fidgety to stick around, but you don't have that effect on me. The extra details help me. Thanks!!
You are a great amazing teacher of Guitar except scales and intervals,major,minor pentatonic scales I was not knowing anything now it's big boost for me to have a brother like you may God Bless you bye ❤
This is just so much fun, thanks so much for posting this. I love learning new guitar pieces that interchange rhythm/chords with lead licks, and this had some real gems in both the licks and the chord tricks (that B7 for example). Love it
I been listening/watching you for about 3 years now, and in those 3 learned more from you then the previous 20 (plateaued) years prior. But probably most importantly, is instead of memorizing entire scales from the high E to low E, learn to memorize the scales around their respective major and minor chords. If you can do this, it really does make everything else like nuance and dynamics fall into place much faster. Anyway, i just wanna say that over the years you have made the guitar feel less like homework, and more of something I want to do and am extremely passionate about. Everyday I can’t wait to pick it up. So thank you for that 🫶
Awesome stuff again. Another one in my liked videos. Its over one hundred now. My playing has improved massively since joining active melody. Thanks very much.
At the end you mentioned leave a comment or thought: At 20:04 the hammer-on to the Eb on the G string inside the B7 Barre chord. I always thought I played the chord perfectly until I tried the HO. My index finger pressing those middle D&G strings does not give a clear sounding A&D note for the HO to Eb. The other notes of the chord ring out which is why I never noticed the dead notes inside the Barre. I'm playing a big Jumbo Epiphone EJ 200, but it is the pretty much the same on the Martin neck. I can't press down or roll my finger anyway to get firm flesh on those 2 D&G strings. Suggestions?
Really enjoy these standalone/solo pieces. I also appreciate the advice 'don't get too mathematical about it...' regarding timing - just make sure you hit the crucial note at the right point. Often I will try and get my playing identical to yours (as a challenge as much as anything), but I think it's just as important to be able to loosen up and apply the 'feel' to improvised pieces of my own.
I love this, thanks Brian. Always amazes me how you play stuff with a flatpick I can only get close to using finger picking, sound wise (dynamics, clarity). Will be diving into it with a pick - Mark
Thanks Brian, absolutely love the Blues by yourself lessons. Watched it through to get my head around it. Now over to the premium site to learn it today. I really appreciate how easily you explain the theory and connectedness. Makes so much difference. Thanks as always 🙏👍
I dream of the day I can just sit and make up music and it sounds good. I can memorize the stuff on utube but I want the music to just be created on the fly. At 67 years old, I doubt I’ll ever get there.
I feel the same way. Even if it never comes its nice having our wood friends around. Playing someone else's stuff or just trying to noodle around is good fun.
Great sound really enjoyed it. I am wondering what the basic structure is. If I am counting correctly I hear 20 measures. So it's not an eight bar blues or a 12 bar blues or 16 bar jazz piece?
Great piece. Nice to switch it up to the acoustic once in a while. Pretty easy to learn and play so far. We’ll see how the second half goes…Nice haircut😂
Yet another excellent work of Mr. Brian. Great composition. Thank you ! Other way around, I have long time unsolved mistery linked to EP288 viz: what amplifier did you use for that record ? Thank you in advance.
Holy Crap, You challenged us to name the song that has that same Introduction. It is on the tip of mine tongue, but i just can't bring it out. What is that?! I know it, ughh.
Can’t get enough of these solo blues pieces.
I love the acoustic blues sound and any video lesson teaching how to play by yourself. Please do more play by yourself videos. Thanks. Craig Ewinger
I’m here for these explanations that come along with a song. Thank you so much please don’t change a thing despite the minority that complains about it
I love these “So you play guitar? Play something for us,” songs! Another “must learn” for me! Thanks Brian!
I get a kick out of it when you say things like "hopefully a light just went on for someone out there" - that light is usually coming on for me and things are starting to make more sense. Great teaching. Thanks
Brian consistently writes music weekly that amazes me, Active Melody members get PDFs, on screen tab videos and everything else a person can learn to become a guitarist and explains it. Excellent teacher at a very good price. You want to learn. Stick around
It’s a fantastic deal! I’m 98 and a half years old and by golly watching Brian was when I first finally started “getting it”!
I have been waiting for a teacher that spoke my musical language. hope to have membership money soon, but you play all the elements of everything I love about Jerry Garcia. his bluegrass blues and country sensibilities. great stuff.
Get that membership! The online tools are great and as you know, the lessons can’t be beat!
dude id freak out if he did some more jerry lessons
@@user-kc7kj6vr1u it's all there. at least my faves, like Jack a Row, shady grove stuff, and his bluegrass feel from his roots working mans, etc... if you want Jerry song lessons. check out Toby & Davy. you don't get the why. but he has the proper fingering.
9😅 0:22 0:23 0:25 so 😅😅😅😅😊
Love these Acoustic Blues Play it by yourself stuff! And this one will be a fine example. Great for playing around, and astonishing your friends, (as well as yourself).
Can't wait to get at that last Run you did near the end of the lesson. Tastey!
These stand alone lessons are brilliant. You always pick up fresh ideas and learn useful tips like introducing secondary dominant chords into the structure. These lessons inspire me to keep practicing and they are great fun to play. Many thanks to you Brian.
Brian, I think you must be inspired daily by all the compliments you receive. You really do have a unique way of communicating in guitar language to most players. For me personally, there are only a handful of online teachers worthy of subscribing to, and you are at the TOP. Thank you for bringing such great teaching to these lessons. I’m a better player because of you! 👍🎶
Really enjoy your teaching style, especially how you smoothly integrate intermediate level harmony and melody theory, as it applies to the structure and context of the tune👍. This old Mississippi blues style lesson really hooked me.
Your the perfect teacher for “failure to launch” guitar player like me. Learned the pentatonic major and minor scales with the blues note, some triads (E,A&D), hybrid picking and still can’t bring it all together. Your videos are making a difference. Thanks!
There are all kinds of blues nuggets in this.
Great style,love the way you integrate the theory into your presentation, excellent!,,thanks I will be using those riffs,
Peace
Man,that J45 sounded incredible…great tone and so clear
These play-by-yourself lessons are my favorite.
Love these stand alone, acoustic compositions. Thanks Brian!
Thank you for the time you take for the extra explanation. Some people over explain and I get too fidgety to stick around, but you don't have that effect on me. The extra details help me. Thanks!!
You are a great amazing teacher of Guitar except scales and intervals,major,minor pentatonic scales I was not knowing anything now it's big boost for me to have a brother like you may God Bless you bye ❤
Everything is coming together love it thanks
Great lesson. Friends in low places.😎
haha - you got it!
@@activemelody seriously. I wish you could teach me ??? Respectively
Janine
@@Tupelo_Honey_77 watch the video?
Friends in Low Places intro. I love, love, love this lesson because I'm wanting to add more blues to my show. Thanks!!
Brian showing up every time with the coolest guitar anyone's ever seen and then playing/showing the tastiest licks with cool timing 😗🤌
My god ! I'll need a full week to process all the tricks explained here. Thank you so much. Bart the Belgian
Thank you! Nice little blues to impovise with and I picked up a couple of licks.
This is just so much fun, thanks so much for posting this. I love learning new guitar pieces that interchange rhythm/chords with lead licks, and this had some real gems in both the licks and the chord tricks (that B7 for example). Love it
Just learned EP 336. This is the right one to follow up. I love these kind of lessons!
I been listening/watching you for about 3 years now, and in those 3 learned more from you then the previous 20 (plateaued) years prior. But probably most importantly, is instead of memorizing entire scales from the high E to low E, learn to memorize the scales around their respective major and minor chords.
If you can do this, it really does make everything else like nuance and dynamics fall into place much faster.
Anyway, i just wanna say that
over the years you have made the guitar feel less like homework, and more of something I want to do and am extremely passionate about. Everyday I can’t wait to pick it up. So thank you for that 🫶
🙏
Best blues lesson vdo i've ever seen. 💚🎸🙌
I like your idea with creating a tension intro ☺️.
Awesome stuff again. Another one in my liked videos. Its over one hundred now. My playing has improved massively since joining active melody. Thanks very much.
As always, I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for very clear explanations of what you’re doing and more importantly..why. Super helpful! Thanks man!
At the end you mentioned leave a comment or thought: At 20:04 the hammer-on to the Eb on the G string inside the B7 Barre chord. I always thought I played the chord perfectly until I tried the HO. My index finger pressing those middle D&G strings does not give a clear sounding A&D note for the HO to Eb. The other notes of the chord ring out which is why I never noticed the dead notes inside the Barre. I'm playing a big Jumbo Epiphone EJ 200, but it is the pretty much the same on the Martin neck. I can't press down or roll my finger anyway to get firm flesh on those 2 D&G strings. Suggestions?
Mind reader. I was just wanting more lessons like 336. Thanks.
love your use of gospel changes; they are great! and your musical explanation (secondary 5ths)
The first three chord progression reminds me of The Beatles' Till There Was You
Really enjoy these standalone/solo pieces. I also appreciate the advice 'don't get too mathematical about it...' regarding timing - just make sure you hit the crucial note at the right point. Often I will try and get my playing identical to yours (as a challenge as much as anything), but I think it's just as important to be able to loosen up and apply the 'feel' to improvised pieces of my own.
Brian, as always great lesson. I'm picking up so much. I love these play by yourself lessons, but really, i get something out of all your videos.
I love this, thanks Brian. Always amazes me how you play stuff with a flatpick I can only get close to using finger picking, sound wise (dynamics, clarity). Will be diving into it with a pick - Mark
Brilliant and inspiring! Thank you
Thanks Brian, absolutely love the Blues by yourself lessons. Watched it through to get my head around it. Now over to the premium site to learn it today. I really appreciate how easily you explain the theory and connectedness. Makes so much difference.
Thanks as always 🙏👍
Enjoying this.
Excellent lesson as always, especially the song intro breakdown! ✨💕
Reminded me of the B section of 'Blue Bossa'... and a few others....
Great; looking forward to part 2; comments to follow . . . .
Cool...very cool indeed
The inkspots' 'I don't want to set your world on fire' has a very similar intro. Although it might be in a different key.
Enjoyed this blues lesson
Really useful session, thank you.
Garth Brooks. Friends in Low Places.
You beat me by 5 months! 😂
Love this!
Great lesson!
Another good job Brian.
The song you mention at 5:57, is that Friends in low places by Garth Brooks? I've tried so long to find that second chord!
I like your teachings
That was nice. Thanks Brian.
awesome insight on the blues:)
great lesson
Excellent video
Love this
Thanks ❤
I dream of the day I can just sit and make up music and it sounds good. I can memorize the stuff on utube but I want the music to just be created on the fly. At 67 years old, I doubt I’ll ever get there.
I feel the same way. Even if it never comes its nice having our wood friends around. Playing someone else's stuff or just trying to noodle around is good fun.
I'm 72 with the same goal; we can at least be much better players than we are now so just forge ahead
Nice.
I love it
Noce sounding guitar good pickin
Louis Armstrong: "What a Wonderful World".
Yes!
Amazing
Great sound really enjoyed it. I am wondering what the basic structure is. If I am counting correctly I hear 20 measures. So it's not an eight bar blues or a 12 bar blues or 16 bar jazz piece?
So Cool man...How many years you practice Guitar?
Quanta musica. Molto bene
Brilliant. Diolch.
Great piece. Nice to switch it up to the acoustic once in a while. Pretty easy to learn and play so far. We’ll see how the second half goes…Nice haircut😂
hah - thanks! :)
Hi Brian, that's what we do, just steal it! Wow, is that the way it is in Nashville?
That’s what everyone does when you learn a lick from someone.
@@activemelodyjust messing with you. Good lesson and have a wonderful weekend. Peace Brian.
Yet another excellent work of Mr. Brian. Great composition. Thank you ! Other way around, I have long time unsolved mistery linked to EP288 viz: what amplifier did you use for that record ? Thank you in advance.
Man I have no idea! If any amp back then probably a Fender Blues Jr
@@activemelody Never mind . It's one of the sound I'm looking for and ... still looking. Thank you again and keep going.
The song I hear off of the video is the theme song to the television program Monk
Inkspots "If I didn't Care" from Shawshank Redemption.
Thanks for another great lesson. May I ask what gauge strings you use to do all these bends? I’m using Martin flexible core lights
Always 12 gauge on acoustic for me (D’Addario)
Blame it all on my roots.....🎶
The comment I was looking for 😂
Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places?
Thank you for my next exercise. What is that microphone you are recording with?
Ear Trumpet Labs - Edwina
Sweet J45
I'm sure you have friends there as well;)
I'm getting Whispering Grass, the Ink Spots??
Got that song stuck in my head now! Not complaining; what a wonderful record!
Sounds like, Friends in low places.
Garth Brooks song.
"Blame it all on my roots........"
in LOW-OW-OWWWWW places
I’ve got friends in Low Places
❤
Fun
I have Friends in Low Places ;-)
Garth Brooks
Garth Brooks???
Friends in low places
Come fare diventare facile quello che sembra difficile.
Friends in Low Places
I showed up in boots…….
Holy Crap, You challenged us to name the song that has that same Introduction. It is on the tip of mine tongue, but i just can't bring it out. What is that?! I know it, ughh.
Eric Clapton - nobody knows you when you're down and out ?.
Maybe ?
Friends in low places 🤪
Спасибл из россии!
I don't have the people skills for this. 8 1/2 minutes in and I'm waiting for something I can use. It's like escaping from Shawshank.
No idea what you’re talking about
you could always use the scrubber to skip forward then. that's what they make that thing for
"Patience" must have auto-corrected to "people skills" and the commentor is either too lazy to correct it or too dense to recognize it.
@@smwallace2368 😂
What are you on about?
show the corg whil u playing