Learn How to Play a Blues Guitar Solo with Call and Response
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In this free guitar tutorial, Berklee College of Music professor and Berklee Online course author Michael Williams shows you how to play a blues guitar solo using call and response.
About Michael Williams
Michael Williams has been active as a blues and jazz guitarist around New England since 1987. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and Canada as a member of Grammy winner James Cotton's blues band, and with many other artists, including David "Fathead" Newman, Mighty Sam McClain, the Bruce Katz Band, Sugar Ray Norcia, Darrell Nulisch, Toni Lynn Washington, Michelle Willson, Jerry Portnoy, the Love Dogs, blues piano virtuoso David Maxwell, and his own band, Michael Williams and Friends.
Williams performed on James Cotton's CD, 35th Anniversary Jam, which won a W.C. Handy Award and received a Grammy nomination for the Best Traditional Blues Album in 2003. He performed on Bruce Katz's 2004 release, entitled A Deeper Blue, and his playing, songwriting, and arranging are featured on Michelle Willson's CD So Emotional, which earned a four-star review in Down Beat magazine. In 1999 Williams released a CD, entitled Late Night Walk (Blue Tempo Records), which features ten original compositions with guest artists David "Fathead" Newman on tenor sax, Sugar Ray Norcia on vocals, and Bruce Katz on Hammond B3 organ and piano.
Originally from Northern California, he has written jingles for radio and television, and performed on extended tours throughout Europe with jazz and theater groups.
Williams is an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he has taught since 1987. He specializes in teaching a mix of blues and jazz styles, and has traveled to Europe and South America on several occasions as a clinician and performer for the college.
About Berklee's online blues guitar course
Guitarists who know the blues have a natural advantage over those that don't. No matter what style they chose to play - jazz, rock, classical - having a blues background provides guitarists with a foundation in form, control, feel and harmonies that can be used to advance their playing in any genre of music. Blues Guitar Workshop begins by teaching the 12-bar blues harmony, basic rhythm guitar technique, and the pentatonic and blues scale in the open position up the neck. You'll learn to incorporate some of the nuances of the masters into your playing - from doubling the bass over a shuffle in the style of Buddy Guy, to combining major and minor pentatonic scales in the style of B.B. King and T-Bone Walker. Through call and response exercises and playing in other grooves and tempos, you'll learn to pace your solos to create tension and release - a technique mastered by all the greatest guitarists. You'll learn to reuse the concepts and musical elements to expand your musical foundation and enhance your ability, whether you're trying to bring a blues sound to your playing or adding more depth and feel to any other style.
"Again, if you listen actively..." that is the best advice in the whole video. Active, focused listening.
This guy has the most impeccable tone and phrasing. I'm very impressed.
That's the thing about the blues that I haven't been able to find in any other music styles. The emotion that seems to just flow from the player into the guitar. It's like the guitar is singing and you can feel their pain.
Sure, but also check out Mark Knopfler (e.g. Telegraph Road Part II)
The hardest part for me is stringing it all together. I have a good grasp on what notes to hit when. But my sentences haven't connected fully yet. They dont quite resolve and make sense a lot of the time.. working on it! This guy has a lot of good information.
Lovely classic blues solo
Fan-bloody-tastic! I'd like to play in this chap's band.
1:02-1:07 made me think my internet died again lol
This is beyond great information! This guy knows how to explain it! This is epic!!!!
TheMacocko HI,I like this video because this video very essential for learning to play guitar . A product I also found useful for learn to play guitar book online is Elumpa Simple Guitar Alchemist - find "best rated blues guitar course" on google if you like.
Great- we need more great musicians like Mike. Forget fancy polish in presenting, get the guys who know- like Mike . Well done, don't laugh at him Mr. Interviewer, You've got a lot to learn here!
Very authentic playing and sound.
That solo had such a nice Howlin' Wolf feel. Tone and attack were dead on. Great player.
I love, love, love these lessons! Michael Williams - you are hugely inspiring! I learn so much from these lessons. THANKS!
Thank you TH-cam for suggesting this. I wasn't sure before what the call and response meant, even though I'm studying blues more now.
Wow that was really great, I've had the hardest time staying in one place and making sense of it, Or getting the most of those few strings And your example for this hole thing kinda opened up some doors for me, For that I say thank you, I was almost ready to give up 2 years of trying to learn until this, Its just enough gas to keep me going, Thanks again.
I'm gonna start sparse *proceeds to play incredibly intricate licks* Lol what a legend.
very informative. thanks for great tips
Question and answer phrasing.....my fav.....
That made me laugh @ 1:02 to 1:10, that's an old school joke, i really liked it! Waaahaha! Great guitar player
Buy an American Standard Tele or Strat -> They are like workhorses and should keep you going for a long while... in my opinion.
2024 This is my favorite "Blues resume."
So true, you can never play better than you can listen.
This is gold dust.
Blues beast!!!!!
Whats the guy doing on a left ?
+K A TheHUN Enjoying the blues
Best lesson ever.
The man has the blues.......... Nice
bravo bravo
amazing
Amazing phrasing
Good stuff Man, Don't Forget Stevie Ray.
Right. He's a monster. And he's the one who opened the doors to the blues for me. I haven't looked back.
Great Advice..
Hi,this video is so amaizing. you have done a great job because this is so helpful to learn guitar. at firstly what you suggest that good. and carry on. I thinink that this is the only video on youtube what you have upload which I have ever seen.
AWESOME playin' blues-in' and great lesson. Thanks TONS!
Kool. Yes music is a lifetime art. Thanks sooooo much. Add jazz scales to this. And look out
He's soooo good
Licks and Tone with Mojo Soul !
I would like to know why 58 people dislike this amazing solo😡😡😡😡😡
+Smile Fleury because they're the type of people that believe being a good guitarist means you play twelve billion notes a second, where as everyone else understands speed is just a small part of it. Sure a fast solo can sound good but if it's not been thought about or got any emotion behind it it just won't feel the same, and the feeling of a song is what really counts.
He is showing off more than teaching.
Yes! Nice. Ok, hands. Do that stuff!
Is there a full clip
luv that tele...
Master Bluesman
This is real guitar playing. Thank you Michael. Subscribed.
So, any thoughts for beginners on using backing tracks / loops...??
Great video!
Yeah brother.....
You are my hero! Your the best!
Very epic, Thanks for helping us have a better understanding. I get it.. Not lets apply this.. Much appreciated brother...
Monster guitar faces goin' on! Great playing!
You certainly got my attention! WOW!
This is awesome. Thanks for the offer!
Finally!!! Well said!!! Clapping my azz off.good vid,really on point. Awesome!!!
Super Slow Sweet Blues Cool Thanks !!!!!!
nice lesson ...very useful
What is that amp?
I wish I would have found you sooner.
superb....
thank you for the gems
Great information! Thank You!!
This guys the shit! Real deal!!! Fantastic
whats the backtrack song ? anybody knows the name ..or any similar song so i could practice ...thanks :D
I think he said it during the videp
4:20
Yes, at first I didn't like this guy, a college guy playing the blues, but after 40 years of Texas blues this guy has phrasing down.
Very nice.
Very good Michael..well done..bw CW
cool man
Awesome player. Give us some mo pls...
Is that Dane cooks brother?
Tremendous interviewer.
8 people disliked this??
This man is my fucking hero!!!
Must not make eye contact with the boy or he will steal my mojo!!
Yeeeahh
his guitar play kinda like Jimmie Vaughan style
Shit! I can almost do that.
Me too. "Almost". :-)
+TheMacocko damn, im having so much trouble building my solos
You don't use a pick - why...??
Picks aren't essential. A lot of great guitarists rarely use them, to name a couple: Mark Knopfler, Jeff Beck
He probably lost his guitar pick, and said F..k it....I learned how to finger pick when I was a teenager, because I was always losing picks. I mainly play with a pick, but it is nice to be able to do both.
Try to feel the blues, bro!
skip to 4:20 to avoid the boring chit chat.
Neil Groves Thank you 🙏
Some of the "boring chit chat" is very useful and informative. Space, time, breathing, leaving gaps etc. I wouldn't skip the first bit if I were you.
The explanations are the most important part if we could figure this stuff out just by listening to our favourite players we wouldn't need to search for help.
this is not about the amount of notes hahaha
Learn? 4 minutes of an explanation,,, 3 minutes of him playing, and 2 more minutes of him explaining. Did not teach anything
4:20