This is one of the best if not THE best guitar lesson among the hundreds I’ve watched. Sean Daniels has an innate ability to teach, and is funny while doing it.
After more than 50 years playing the guitar and 35 or more on banjo, that little blue diagram you placed on the fret board is the best thing I've ever seen for teaching. Great job.
I played pro Blues harp for many years & picked up guitar some years ago. I've written & performed plenty of songs but found Blues guitar somewhat illusive. Ok so I balked at the vid's title, it seems an outlandish gimmicky claim, but must say Sean you're truly a brilliant & masterful instructor. Thanks so much, this is gold!
I’ve been playing guitar for 20yrs and this is absolutely the best guitar lesson video I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing. I understand people learn in different ways, and the way you teach makes sense to me.
A lot of videos "play" their explanation and expect you to understand the theory by hearing THEM play. The "I played it for you and now you should know" type videos. Your video actually used spoken words on why, not just how.. You're a great communicator. Thank you.
Normally when someone with 'the knowledge' fast fires a lesson, I just end up bewildered, knowing there was valuable information in there somewhere but unable to unravel it. Sean you have the ability to pour out pure gold at a fast rate and my brain just soaked it up, this is great stuff, it's sold like a cheat sheet but it's real music theory in a blues tone. My brain got it all, it's my fingers that are just trying to keep up. Great stuff, thanks.
This channel is the only one where I can watch your videos and understand what you're talking about off the bat. I graduated TH-cam academy in guitar, and I've suffered through the too easy and the too hard lessons. What I love about yours is that anybody could learn from it. Keep it up and never ever ever ever stop lest my guitar strings oxidize.
Why do people have to hate on the clickbait? The only people mad about it are people who already know enough shit about the blues to know it's a baity title anyway, not the kind of people who would actually learn something from it. The man has content and needs to draw attention to his videos. I support it.
Thanks! For a guy like me, this beginners lesson allows me to play a sound that is good to listen to and fun to play. It keeps me interested in learning more.
7 years late, but id argue he's got a better platform here than he would in a public school. You're not reaching nearly 3 million people if you're just teaching inside 4 walls
Where were you 30 something years ago when I started learning guitar??? I learned more about blues in just ONE lesson than I’ve done in THIRTY YEARS. Incredible!!! Thank you 👍
As a beginner / intermediate I've watched a lot of lessons on blues. This guy made more sense in one video than several others combined. Well explained.
Well, the first line of the blues is the same as the second line I said the first line of the blues is the same as the second line The third line’s slightly different And the fourth line has to rhyme
I've seen so many videos talking about the IV chord, the III chord and the V chord etc... and NOW I finally know what it means! Thank you. With that and the shape explanation, probably the most informative 8 minutes I've ever seen on guitar.
Can't thank you enough, Sean. You are taking me from 20 years of being a boring strum de strum player who just plays well enough to sing along to, to a whole new creativity and interest in my playing! Love your work!
Thanks for the lesson. I have been playing for 25 years but recently unbent brain surgery for the removal for a very large tumor. Just starting to get better.
Sean, i started late 56 years old just under three years ago, i've stuttered and started, spent to much time on theory, watched most teachers on here including your good self, then suddenly this morning the direction i wanted to take but didn't know came along with this video, always been a 50's style Rock 'n Roll fan, this has given me new hope cheers bro
The clearest, most time-efficient, no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point instruction yet. Thank you for sharing. I'm just getting back into playing guitar (approximately 2 years ago), after a 30++ year hiatus. I had played a lot back in the 60's / 70's,... but sold all my guitars in the 80's & didn't pick one up until about 2 years ago. I was determined to learn to do it right this time, & in-person, one-on-one instructors are a gross waste of time & money. There are countless instructors on the internet that will impress upon you how good they are (usually heavy metal head-bangers), but don't teach you anything!!!! You are a welcome change. I will be signing on as a student as soon as Mom gives me my allowance!!!
thank you, i am a beginner guitar player on acoustic, playing for fun n to learn. i watch different youtube videos to learn. this simple video helped me, salute!🍺
Sean, This tutorial of yours epitomises all that's magical about the Net: That a blues lover and rank guitar amateur (me) can browse and poke around, looking for any gems of wisdom - and find this, a video put together by someone with the gift of getting maximum knowledge across in the simplest and most articulate, accessible and interesting way. Just brilliant - and insightful. Thank you!
I’ve taken music lessons. If anyone has bothered to teach me simple patterns, instead of trying to cram the circle of fifths down my throat, I probably still be playing today.
Linda. You are right .i taught about 3 people to play guitar , just starting with AD and E.then maybe one of the pentatonic scales .BUT i had a buddy who ( to put it his way ) wanted to learn properly with music reading .I told him he would find it hard .In the end he gave up.All he really wanted to do was learn to play blues with a little bit of lead thrown in.
@@j.dragon651it's hard enough for a beginner to remember and play simple patterns at first. If it's not fun, people quit trying before they gave enough of a foundation. I say, learn a few chords and some songs, then learn the theory behind those songs. Then expand from there with more chords and more theory, a little at a time.
Sean, I watch your video each afternoon to learn this 12/8 Bar Blues as I'm 61 & a retired Veteran & have only been learning guitar 2 yrs, but love your vids mate! I spread the word for you too buddy ;-)
Out of all the tutorials I ve watched so far on TH-cam, *You are the only one who actually want to teach something* , not be like "hey, donate on my patreon, buy this, buy that" Sir, what you are doing is amazing and hope you ll *keep up the good work* .
This is great stuff. It's exactly the type of of lesson I've been looking for as a beginner. It's pretty simple but it's really cool and getting me playing proper music. Love it, thanks.
I've dabbled with guitar for over 20 years, and I've recently released my rhythm sucks, I spend to much time on lead stuff. This video is gold to me! Thank you 👍🏻
Looking at the comments I see a lot of light bulbs went off so I’m not alone. Only been playing a year and have been through 1000’s of TH-cam’s. This one short lesson allows me to make music plus (understand it!) and experiment changing it up with ease. Many thanks!
I just read a lot of y'alls comments bashing this guy for using Hyperbole.... Well, take a look at how many hits that Hyperbole got him. And yeah, Joe Bonamassa uses these chords over and over and I never get tired of him playing it over and over. And don't forget, He does say to CHANGE it up. Now calm down before you bust a gut or blow an aneurysm, and yes, that too is Hyperbole.
Interesting. I've always memorized songs (as a bassist) by remembering the "shape" that's made on the fretboard by my finger placement. Never have I heard anybody else refer to it as a shape. Glad to finally see im not the only one.
I literally got it in 8 minutes. I've been trying - and - still learning how to play. After watching this video - I really got it, I see it now, things I've learned all came together. I've studied the scales and have good finger work. Now, I see how cords and scales come together. Thanks much for the lesson. This is top 2 videos' I've watched. Can't thank you enough!
the blues are definaely well respected I've always loved the blues my uncles all 4 played for years till they passed and I had 1 uncle that owned a gretch and would not let me touch it it sound amazing. I can deal hear it ringing the blues in my ears .
On the third time around, something clicked. Melody created in a pattern of 1, 4, 5 is Blues. I am a perennial beginner and cannot play Chords other than E and A and here it is you can make blues in whichever way your Heart pleases and your limitations matter the least. Your unstructured self learning makes way for an uncluttered teaching approach. Un-seemingly almost like stealth you introduced 1 4 5 and a turnaround emphasising their Origin from a scale and then showing how only those notes too are enough to make your “blues” go away. A poor-middle-aged-beginner-since-forever can also have something to do. Much appreciated Sir 🙏🙏🙏
Please never go off utube. I just brought a electric guitar 🎸 what you just did you made it look clear easy. Thank you as a beginner You always awesome even in piano.
I’m on the second video I’ve ever seen of yours, and am honestly astounded at how well you’re able to explain this. I saw music theory as super difficult to understand, but now I have hope😂 Thank you Sean!
Bluestomiv hard rock? I've yet to hear him in any hard rock Channel and dude is deff all over the blues scene. I think maybe compared to the 1880s through 1970s that the new blues is maybe hard rock but blues is the blues. It's not a genre it's a feeling. Still didn't get me laid. Bad tutorial
I'm sorry did Joe Bonamassa grow up in the delta being treated like shit all his life because he was black? oh no I didn't think so. did he work on a plantation plowing fields and picking cotton? oh no I didn't think so. Did Joe Bonamassa watch his friends and family get lynched? oh no I didn't think so. that's what makes real blues so special, when it's none right by a real blues man it conveys those feelings and experiences. that's the feeling in the blues. Joe Bonamassa plays blues rock. different thing altogether. if "woke up dreaming" was played with an electric guitar and some distortion it would sound indistinguishable from any other hard rock song.
So earl hooker and blind lemon Jefferson aren't blues players? Or Freddie King? STV (who is white btw)? Blind Willie Johnson or Eric johnson (another white guy) or T bone walker or big momma Thornton or Zz top (white guys)? Or Eric fucking Clapton? (White and English) So these ppl aren't blues players or blues musicians according to your words right? You must be white. You're an idiot. Blues does not mean color. Does not mean how you're treated or your place of birth. I've just listed some of the most famous blues players but according to you they are not blues players because they aren't from the "delta blues" area lmao. Fucking Internet tard you are
Sean. Reading through the comments I was rather surprised at all the negativity (guess I shouldn't be - this is TH-cam after all). I for one appreciate what you are doing... and do not feel duped (did I really think I'd get all the blues in 8 minutes - no - just a tip or two to get me thinking - and that I got!) This video made clear the 1-4-5 etc. Well worth the 8 minutes for most people. Thank you. Keep posting!
You get how people think and speak their language, most music teachers are like a Scientist telling you a how to bake cookies, grams, miligrams i/64th notes ect and yet grandmaw cooks with her hands and says a bit of this a bunch of that and it tastes excellent. That talk from you made it easy for me to understand 12 bar and now off into the Wild 12 Bar Blue Yonder in the Stratosphere of the Stratocaster!
I know. It seems so easy, but only after you know it. This is truly a very simple straightforward way of summing up not just blues but country, and Folk. Thanks for posting this....
Dude sounds like Kevin Spacey... Nice to see I'm not the only one thinking in shapes, shame I don't know all the theory behind it all though! Thanks for the vid!
Mind blown. I've been learning scales and struggling to put it all "together". This helped tremendously and somehow I'm able to feel the music better knowing this. Thanks so much for sharing!
Wow, this is lesson is like a translation between musicians and beginners. You taught not only how to practice but how to create a pattern of how music works and how to communicate it. Thank you!
Sean, you're a great player, good tutor and we need people like you. I'm glad you let the fools go by without getting to you. You win, they lose every time.
Hey Sean, maybe you can help me to find out what is the name or how do you call it when a blues get stuck all the time on 1st chord, not evolving to 4th and 5th, no progression. Thx in advance!
You know I'm not sure if there's a name for that, I think you'd just call it however many bars of 1? Not sure but if I hear something I'll let you know!
Sketch the 12 bars out onto staff paper (12 bars) and you can cut and paste the I, IV, and V chords to hear how simple blues progressions can become works of art. Use a rhythm source (a drum machine or a friend who can keep rhythm), then create melodies etc. Wow! Try telling a story about your condition. Got blues?
Sean Daniels your brilliant I'm truly enlighten by your teaching I'm new to guitar playing and you've helped me out with your teaching I never knew what they meant when they said 12bar blues but you broke it down completely thanks keep doing what you do
Being a singer, I'm writing first time ever with my pleasure on someone's content who's teaching guitar online. All I have to say this guy is humble and The legend.
Sean Daniel Now, it's an Epiphone group, so if you could do a video with an Epi I could post it on the main page and a metric shit-ton of folks would see it...
Hey bro,I like your positive attitude ,I just wanted to suggest giving a quick explanation of the 1-4-5 progression... I'm a teacher also and you are absolutely right about how almost all blues/rock and pop for that matter is only 3 chords,the riffs you play are irrelevant to the basic lesson of learning the roots,E-A-B...G-C-D etc...Bob Dylan always said anymore than 3 chords in a song is just showing off... thanks for your time and keep it up... peace
Hey I'm 6 years late to the party but thanks so much for recording this! I landed here via Katie Lowe and Dovdas. As a guitar and blues harp player, I've heard this before but never realized how easy it was to learn...thanks to your clear instruction. Took me about an hour, and I can see the possibilities for variations.
martyisabeliever the point is you can move that same shape to E or A or G it doesn’t matter the shape works in any key. You should listen to what the man says more carefully
That my man was a great lesson of basics!! Every teacher should take a lesson from you in sensible ways to relay a message. Much appreciated and sincere thanks. Deano
I think all you guys who are bitching over the title are acting like losers. No one in their right mind would take that title literally. Not because it's about the blues - "learn every in 8 minutes" is just not a literal title. Lighten up and learn to have some fun without having to be the center of attention. Or, even better - before you start tearing down what others are trying to do, get your own videos out here. Maybe you're right - maybe you can do it way better. And then you *will* get to be the center of attention. But put up or shut up. Sean, I'm enjoying the videos quite a lot. Learning some stuff here and there, but also just enjoying the entertainment. Keep it up, man.
Saying you can "learn every blues song ever made in 8 minutes" is the same as saying that because you were just issued your first drivers license, you can successfully compete in Formula 1 racing.
SOOOO, THAT’S HOW YOU PLAY “CROSSFIRE?” I’LL BE DAMNED. I CAN’T WAIT TO START TOURING COVERING HENDRIX, VAI, VAUGHN, CLAPTON, MUDDY WATERS, B.B. KING AND 400,000,000 OTHER BLUES MUSICIANS JUST BY PLAYING THAT LICK. HAHAHAHAHA.
Sean Daniels that's a basic boogie with a turnaround. Good lesson for THAT but definitely not "every blues song". Don't pigeonhole the blues, the Grandfather of it ALL! I just subbed u yesterday don't disappoint me!
mate, at 57, having watched 1000s of tutorials, you have explained 12 bar blues in a superb manner.
Thanks so much for saying so! I appreciate it :)
@@seandaniel23 keep on keeping on brother Sean
This is one of the best if not THE best guitar lesson among the hundreds I’ve watched. Sean Daniels has an innate ability to teach, and is funny while doing it.
Thanks so much for saying so!
Exactly ..It just takes one teacher to explain the right thing to get a person motivated !
After more than 50 years playing the guitar and 35 or more on banjo, that little blue diagram you placed on the fret board is the best thing I've ever seen for teaching. Great job.
So great to hear! Happy to help Bud!
Gotta agree 💯
Looking for that!
Are you currently 87 years old now?
Xian XT why would he be 87?
I played pro Blues harp for many years & picked up guitar some years ago. I've written & performed plenty of songs but found Blues guitar somewhat illusive. Ok so I balked at the vid's title, it seems an outlandish gimmicky claim, but must say Sean you're truly a brilliant & masterful instructor. Thanks so much, this is gold!
Wow thanks so much for the compliment! And thanks for watching!
I’ve been playing guitar for 20yrs and this is absolutely the best guitar lesson video I’ve seen. Thank you for sharing.
I understand people learn in different ways, and the way you teach makes sense to me.
You have the easiest to understand, straight to the point tutorials. Really appreciate the videos!
+Colton Blanchard Happy to help, thanks for watching!
Sean Daniel no sabes nada sobre el blues, amigo.
pinstrip potoroo TELOSICO
You've got a great name! Lol
Ozric tentakels
A lot of videos "play" their explanation and expect you to understand the theory by hearing THEM play. The "I played it for you and now you should know" type videos. Your video actually used spoken words on why, not just how.. You're a great communicator. Thank you.
Thanks for saying so!
Normally when someone with 'the knowledge' fast fires a lesson, I just end up bewildered, knowing there was valuable information in there somewhere but unable to unravel it. Sean you have the ability to pour out pure gold at a fast rate and my brain just soaked it up, this is great stuff, it's sold like a cheat sheet but it's real music theory in a blues tone. My brain got it all, it's my fingers that are just trying to keep up. Great stuff, thanks.
This channel is the only one where I can watch your videos and understand what you're talking about off the bat. I graduated TH-cam academy in guitar, and I've suffered through the too easy and the too hard lessons. What I love about yours is that anybody could learn from it. Keep it up and never ever ever ever stop lest my guitar strings oxidize.
Why do people have to hate on the clickbait? The only people mad about it are people who already know enough shit about the blues to know it's a baity title anyway, not the kind of people who would actually learn something from it. The man has content and needs to draw attention to his videos. I support it.
Thanks so much Homie!
Thanks! For a guy like me, this beginners lesson allows me to play a sound that is good to listen to and fun to play. It keeps me interested in learning more.
Thanks so much for reaching out Alan. Happy to help!
Thank you, this was the most comprehensive explanation of 12-bar I´ve seen. Great lesson as always :)
+Michal Pfeifer Thanks for watching, I'll keep em coming!
If you were a Public School Teacher, you could single-handedly rescue Education in this country! Awesome lesson!
Haha, thanks so much Steve!
7 years late, but id argue he's got a better platform here than he would in a public school. You're not reaching nearly 3 million people if you're just teaching inside 4 walls
Where were you 30 something years ago when I started learning guitar??? I learned more about blues in just ONE lesson than I’ve done in THIRTY YEARS. Incredible!!! Thank you 👍
So great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Wow, I heard this riff a million times in blues fest. n never could remember how to play it. So tks a million, friend. You make it so simple.
Happy to help my man!
As a beginner / intermediate I've watched a lot of lessons on blues. This guy made more sense in one video than several others combined. Well explained.
thanks so much!
OH! FINALLY... someone who knows how to communicate with simplicity...thank you Sean
Thanks for watching David!
Well, the first line of the blues is the same as the second line
I said the first line of the blues is the same as the second line
The third line’s slightly different
And the fourth line has to rhyme
I truly enjoyed your comment.
The best example ever.
Nick .u forget the words .My girl has dumped me, i lost my job , my pick ups broke and my dogs died.lol
That's country
@@theresewalters1696 You should probably get out more ;-)
I've seen so many videos talking about the IV chord, the III chord and the V chord etc... and NOW I finally know what it means! Thank you. With that and the shape explanation, probably the most informative 8 minutes I've ever seen on guitar.
Can't thank you enough, Sean. You are taking me from 20 years of being a boring strum de strum player who just plays well enough to sing along to, to a whole new creativity and interest in my playing! Love your work!
Thanks so much for reaching out! I'll keep the videos coming! Rock on!
Double the speed and you can learn it in 4 minutes.
Haha, that's one way to do it!
For fucks sake hahhahahahahhaahhaha
Then it would be boogie lol
Brilliant!
Whahaha good one
Thanks for the lesson. I have been playing for 25 years but recently unbent brain surgery for the removal for a very large tumor. Just starting to get better.
Man I hope you're doing well! Thanks for watching.
When singing the blues make sure that every sentence starts with the word "well".
You know it!
wellllllll all my friends are boppin the blues it must be goin round (A,A,B,C,C#,D)
carl perkins: boppin the blues
Indeed 6 VX
And every sentence must include 'My baby' at least once...
Sean, i started late 56 years old just under three years ago, i've stuttered and started, spent to much time on theory, watched most teachers on here including your good self, then suddenly this morning the direction i wanted to take but didn't know came along with this video, always been a 50's style Rock 'n Roll fan, this has given me new hope cheers bro
So great to hear Adrian! Let me know if you ever have questions!
Thanks I will sorry for delay in getting back to you
The clearest, most time-efficient, no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point instruction yet. Thank you for sharing. I'm just getting back into playing guitar (approximately 2 years ago), after a 30++ year hiatus. I had played a lot back in the 60's / 70's,... but sold all my guitars in the 80's & didn't pick one up until about 2 years ago. I was determined to learn to do it right this time, & in-person, one-on-one instructors are a gross waste of time & money. There are countless instructors on the internet that will impress upon you how good they are (usually heavy metal head-bangers), but don't teach you anything!!!! You are a welcome change. I will be signing on as a student as soon as Mom gives me my allowance!!!
"in-person, one-on-one instructors are a gross waste of time & money"
you're dead wrong.
thank you, i am a beginner guitar player on acoustic, playing for fun n to learn. i watch different youtube videos to learn. this simple video helped me, salute!🍺
Thanks for watching Brandon!
Sean, This tutorial of yours epitomises all that's magical about the Net: That a blues lover and rank guitar amateur (me) can browse and poke around, looking for any gems of wisdom - and find this, a video put together by someone with the gift of getting maximum knowledge across in the simplest and most articulate, accessible and interesting way. Just brilliant - and insightful. Thank you!
Thanks so much for the kind words! I'll keep it up!
I’ve taken music lessons. If anyone has bothered to teach me simple patterns, instead of trying to cram the circle of fifths down my throat, I probably still be playing today.
Linda. You are right .i taught about 3 people to play guitar , just starting with AD and E.then maybe one of the pentatonic scales .BUT i had a buddy who ( to put it his way ) wanted to learn properly with music reading .I told him he would find it hard .In the end he gave up.All he really wanted to do was learn to play blues with a little bit of lead thrown in.
there are only 11 notes, how hard can it be.
@@j.dragon651it's hard enough for a beginner to remember and play simple patterns at first. If it's not fun, people quit trying before they gave enough of a foundation.
I say, learn a few chords and some songs, then learn the theory behind those songs. Then expand from there with more chords and more theory, a little at a time.
Good to know. You can loose students by over complicating things.
Presuming this is sarcasm, but if not then just to let you know there’s 12 notes. And it’s quite difficult.
Sean, I watch your video each afternoon to learn this 12/8 Bar Blues as I'm 61 & a retired Veteran & have only been learning guitar 2 yrs, but love your vids mate! I spread the word for you too buddy ;-)
My man Tony! Thanks so much for spreading the word! Keep rocking!
Out of all the tutorials I ve watched so far on TH-cam, *You are the only one who actually want to teach something* , not be like "hey, donate on my patreon, buy this, buy that"
Sir, what you are doing is amazing and hope you ll *keep up the good work* .
Thanks so much! I'll keep em coming!
Thank you Sean, i'm just a biginner but i like blues and i think i will learn a lot from you even at 68 age!
So cool! Thanks for watching and keep rocking!
Dam!? I've been playing for 30 years, and still don't know every blues song ever. I'm excited to know I'm going to learn them in 8 more minutes !😁🤘
Hope it met expectations!
@@seandaniel23 LOL Im sorry I just have to laugh at the title of this "tutorial"
I did it in six every blues song is the same, the masters are different 😎✌️
This is great stuff. It's exactly the type of of lesson I've been looking for as a beginner. It's pretty simple but it's really cool and getting me playing proper music. Love it, thanks.
I've dabbled with guitar for over 20 years, and I've recently released my rhythm sucks, I spend to much time on lead stuff.
This video is gold to me! Thank you 👍🏻
Looking at the comments I see a lot of light bulbs went off so I’m not alone. Only been playing a year and have been through 1000’s of TH-cam’s. This one short lesson allows me to make music plus (understand it!) and experiment changing it up with ease.
Many thanks!
An awesome tutorial Sean. I have been trying to wrap my brain around the I IV V progression, you sure have simplified it for me...Thanks
+James O'Byrne Happy to help! Thanks for watching.
this is a very good and easy explaination of the 12 bar blues that I have come across.Very good teacher.
Thanks so much Glenn!
Sean is teaching me how to be a better blues man than I already am!!!! You da man!!! Please keep theses awesome lessons coming SEAN!
Will do Edward! Thanks for watching!
If you needed that lesson, you're not even a musician.
2022 december the 3rd...still the best lesson on TH-cam!
My guy!
2024 December 3rd…Pretty sure it’s still the best blues lesson on TH-cam!
This man is the greatest teacher of all time, not like all those instructors that teach you a minimum. Thank you!
Thanks so much for saying so!
I just read a lot of y'alls comments bashing this guy for using Hyperbole.... Well, take a look at how many hits that Hyperbole got him. And yeah, Joe Bonamassa uses these chords over and over and I never get tired of him playing it over and over. And don't forget, He does say to CHANGE it up. Now calm down before you bust a gut or blow an aneurysm, and yes, that too is Hyperbole.
Thanks Bob!
Interesting. I've always memorized songs (as a bassist) by remembering the "shape" that's made on the fretboard by my finger placement. Never have I heard anybody else refer to it as a shape. Glad to finally see im not the only one.
You're not alone my friend!
MAn, your videos are SO useful that I can't even express how much they've helped me. Thanks, really.
So great to hear Lisandro! Thanks for reaching out!
I literally got it in 8 minutes. I've been trying - and - still learning how to play. After watching this video - I really got it, I see it now, things I've learned all came together. I've studied the scales and have good finger work. Now, I see how cords and scales come together. Thanks much for the lesson. This is top 2 videos' I've watched. Can't thank you enough!
So great to hear Victor! Thanks so much!
the blues are definaely well respected I've always loved the blues my uncles all 4 played for years till they passed and I had 1 uncle that owned a gretch and would not let me touch it it sound amazing. I can deal hear it ringing the blues in my ears .
Rock on!
best 8 minutes of my youtube life! thank you for this lesson...
Hey thanks so much for watching!
So easy to follow and insightful, hands down the best lesson for absolute beginner guitar players!
Thanks for the kind words!
You are a brilliant teacher cause' you make it easy to understand.
+WysteriaGuitar Wow thanks! I'll keep it up!
On the third time around, something clicked. Melody created in a pattern of 1, 4, 5 is Blues. I am a perennial beginner and cannot play Chords other than E and A and here it is you can make blues in whichever way your Heart pleases and your limitations matter the least. Your unstructured self learning makes way for an uncluttered teaching approach. Un-seemingly almost like stealth you introduced 1 4 5 and a turnaround emphasising their Origin from a scale and then showing how only those notes too are enough to make your “blues” go away. A poor-middle-aged-beginner-since-forever can also have something to do. Much appreciated Sir 🙏🙏🙏
Please never go off utube.
I just brought a electric guitar 🎸 what you just did you made it look clear easy.
Thank you as a beginner
You always awesome even in piano.
This has tought me how to play 'Pride & Joy' aswell as every B.B King song. Amazing! :')
So cool to hear the vid was helpful!
I reckon we both missed out on a bit of sarcasm?
I’m on the second video I’ve ever seen of yours, and am honestly astounded at how well you’re able to explain this. I saw music theory as super difficult to understand, but now I have hope😂 Thank you Sean!
Thanks so much! I'll keep em coming!
If anybody makes me get theory the world might stop spinning but hey its worth a try!
Yes, he gives you comfortable lamens term identification then walks you back with actual terminology creating full comprehension...superb.
First video ever which explain clearly how to play blues. Had to suscribe. Well done, sir !
+Thibault Plantevin Thanks for the support my man.
I agree and subscribed right away too! Thanks for showing me the foundation to build whatever I want!!!!!
I'v been playing for 25 years and this is simplest way that I can understand. Thanks so much for sharing.
I have been plodding along for years and years going around in circles and tonight I have actually learnt something,Thank you
This is a great thing to learn; thank-you, Sean.
Always happy to help!
It says learn every blues song ever.
I tried to play woke up dreamin by joe bonamassa using this method and it deff didn't work or get me laid :(
that because Joe bonamassa ain't blues. that's hard rock
Bluestomiv hard rock? I've yet to hear him in any hard rock Channel and dude is deff all over the blues scene. I think maybe compared to the 1880s through 1970s that the new blues is maybe hard rock but blues is the blues. It's not a genre it's a feeling. Still didn't get me laid. Bad tutorial
I'm sorry did Joe Bonamassa grow up in the delta being treated like shit all his life because he was black? oh no I didn't think so. did he work on a plantation plowing fields and picking cotton? oh no I didn't think so. Did Joe Bonamassa watch his friends and family get lynched? oh no I didn't think so. that's what makes real blues so special, when it's none right by a real blues man it conveys those feelings and experiences. that's the feeling in the blues. Joe Bonamassa plays blues rock. different thing altogether. if "woke up dreaming" was played with an electric guitar and some distortion it would sound indistinguishable from any other hard rock song.
So earl hooker and blind lemon Jefferson aren't blues players? Or Freddie King? STV (who is white btw)? Blind Willie Johnson or Eric johnson (another white guy) or T bone walker or big momma Thornton or Zz top (white guys)? Or Eric fucking Clapton? (White and English) So these ppl aren't blues players or blues musicians according to your words right?
You must be white. You're an idiot. Blues does not mean color. Does not mean how you're treated or your place of birth.
I've just listed some of the most famous blues players but according to you they are not blues players because they aren't from the "delta blues" area lmao. Fucking Internet tard you are
yeah half those peo people you mentioned are blues rock players. they are missing the nuance that true blues has.
This immediately brings One Way Out by the Allman Bros to mind
Oh for sure :)
Sean. Reading through the comments I was rather surprised at all the negativity (guess I shouldn't be - this is TH-cam after all). I for one appreciate what you are doing... and do not feel duped (did I really think I'd get all the blues in 8 minutes - no - just a tip or two to get me thinking - and that I got!) This video made clear the 1-4-5 etc. Well worth the 8 minutes for most people. Thank you. Keep posting!
Thanks so much for reaching out :) I'll keep it up!
You get how people think and speak their language, most music teachers are like a Scientist telling you a how to bake cookies, grams, miligrams i/64th notes ect and yet grandmaw cooks with her hands and says a bit of this a bunch of that and it tastes excellent. That talk from you made it easy for me to understand 12 bar and now off into the Wild 12 Bar Blue Yonder in the Stratosphere of the Stratocaster!
Fantastic. Great lesson, mate.
Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks for the video.
Could you make a video getting more into scales (minors and majors) ? I'm having some trouble ...
+Simão Samouco Yeah for sure, I'll get working on it!
This is GOLD
+Anthony Verduzco Happy to help, thanks for watching!
What a bunch of ingrates. This was super easy and helpful. Thank you, Sean.
I know. It seems so easy, but only after you know it. This is truly a very simple straightforward way of summing up not just blues but country, and Folk. Thanks for posting this....
Your welcome :)
Wow, that one was a clear explanation. Subbed :)
Welcome to the party!
Less is more..Thank you,amazing lesson!!
Right on Peter!
Dude sounds like Kevin Spacey...
Nice to see I'm not the only one thinking in shapes, shame I don't know all the theory behind it all though!
Thanks for the vid!
Nope, you are not alone. Ever heard of the CAGED system?
Happy to help! I prefer Keyser Soze though :)
One of my favourite movies!
One of the coolest, shortest, Fantastic descriptions of music theory actually Applied I've seen. Impressive. That's the way to teach music.
+W Boyo thanks so much!
Mind blown. I've been learning scales and struggling to put it all "together". This helped tremendously and somehow I'm able to feel the music better knowing this. Thanks so much for sharing!
Bro!! Great tip, no bullshits, interesting tips 😂😀
Nice, I'm an instant subscriber
Welcome to the party Steve!
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brillant lesson thank you
+martin evans Thanks for watching!
Sean Daniel
it was great lesson thank you again
Wow, this is lesson is like a translation between musicians and beginners. You taught not only how to practice but how to create a pattern of how music works and how to communicate it. Thank you!
Sean, you're a great player, good tutor and we need people like you. I'm glad you let the fools go by without getting to you. You win, they lose every time.
Can't keep a good man down :)
Keep on truckin
Hey Sean, maybe you can help me to find out what is the name or how do you call it when a blues get stuck all the time on 1st chord, not evolving to 4th and 5th, no progression. Thx in advance!
You know I'm not sure if there's a name for that, I think you'd just call it however many bars of 1? Not sure but if I hear something I'll let you know!
@@seandaniel23 modal?
You don't learn the blues by just playing it, you have to feel it in your soul to learn it.
Preach!
I thought blues players sold their souls to the devil?
Sketch the 12 bars out onto staff paper (12 bars) and you can cut and paste the I, IV, and V chords to hear how simple blues progressions can become works of art. Use a rhythm source (a drum machine or a friend who can keep rhythm), then create melodies etc. Wow! Try telling a story about your condition. Got blues?
Right on Rick, great idea and thanks for watching.
Ubetcha!
Sean Daniels your brilliant I'm truly enlighten by your teaching I'm new to guitar playing and you've helped me out with your teaching I never knew what they meant when they said 12bar blues but you broke it down completely thanks keep doing what you do
Being a singer, I'm writing first time ever with my pleasure on someone's content who's teaching guitar online. All I have to say this guy is humble and The legend.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Yet another sub, and I will be posting in my 6000+ member Facebook guitar group about you. At least some should be as impressed as I am.
So cool! I appreciate you spreading the word!
Sean Daniel Now, it's an Epiphone group, so if you could do a video with an Epi I could post it on the main page and a metric shit-ton of folks would see it...
Thanks Quentin Tarantino
+Hammock Dweller No prob
Quentin ? I see Dexter lol.. great channel btw.
Not even close ...try mixing Deadpool with Ant-Man with the knowledge of guitar/teacher.
@@ryanfagan8503 That's what IIII thoughtt
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you bunch of haters! I would have loved to have these video's available when I started out.
Thanks for watching Klaas!
Hey bro,I like your positive attitude ,I just wanted to suggest giving a quick explanation of the 1-4-5 progression... I'm a teacher also and you are absolutely right about how almost all blues/rock and pop for that matter is only 3 chords,the riffs you play are irrelevant to the basic lesson of learning the roots,E-A-B...G-C-D etc...Bob Dylan always said anymore than 3 chords in a song is just showing off... thanks for your time and keep it up... peace
Thanks so much man! I appreciate the feedback!
Just came across your channel. Been a player for 20 years. Appreciate your powerfully simplistic approach to teaching. Thanks!
6:19 always a good advice for girls.
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I don't get it
same
Why U at the end of every sentenceU ? PlumsU?
It's my signature quirk.
Sean Daniel
You mean “quirkU”
Blues, not 12-bar: John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom. 12-bar, not Blues: The Twist - Chubby Checker. Categories are a deep hole. :-)
Hey I'm 6 years late to the party but thanks so much for recording this! I landed here via Katie Lowe and Dovdas. As a guitar and blues harp player, I've heard this before but never realized how easy it was to learn...thanks to your clear instruction. Took me about an hour, and I can see the possibilities for variations.
I've spent months watching theory and this video just put it together for me. I need practice but things make much more sense. Thank you
"12 bar Blues in A I-IV-V
martyisabeliever the point is you can move that same shape to E or A or G it doesn’t matter the shape works in any key. You should listen to what the man says more carefully
I tried playing “Sitting on Top of the World” with this. Didnt work.
Must not be a blues song.
It's a actually a bluegrass song
@@seandaniel23 Howlin Wolf. Sitting on top of the world
@@thedrugstorecowboy2948 Howlin Wolf. Sitting on top of the world. As bluesy As It Gets
then try playing it standing on top of the world
Sir are you canadian or french? i notice you end with a vowel sound on your words a lot. lol just curious.
Nope! Born in Chicago, the vowel sound thing is just something I've always done for whatever reason :)
Ya hes sounds like a French Canadian such as myself haha
That my man was a great lesson of basics!! Every teacher should take a lesson from you in sensible ways to relay a message. Much appreciated and sincere thanks. Deano
I took a 12 year hiatus from guitar and this is my first song I'm learning to play again. Greatly explained!
I think all you guys who are bitching over the title are acting like losers. No one in their right mind would take that title literally. Not because it's about the blues - "learn every in 8 minutes" is just not a literal title. Lighten up and learn to have some fun without having to be the center of attention.
Or, even better - before you start tearing down what others are trying to do, get your own videos out here. Maybe you're right - maybe you can do it way better. And then you *will* get to be the center of attention. But put up or shut up.
Sean, I'm enjoying the videos quite a lot. Learning some stuff here and there, but also just enjoying the entertainment. Keep it up, man.
Thanks so much man, I'll keep it up!
KipIngram na its a bullshit title
omg, I just learned the blues
Saying you can "learn every blues song ever made in 8 minutes" is the same as saying that because you were just issued your first drivers license, you can successfully compete in Formula 1 racing.
SOOOO, THAT’S HOW YOU PLAY “CROSSFIRE?” I’LL BE DAMNED. I CAN’T WAIT TO START TOURING COVERING HENDRIX, VAI, VAUGHN, CLAPTON, MUDDY WATERS, B.B. KING AND 400,000,000 OTHER BLUES MUSICIANS JUST BY PLAYING THAT LICK. HAHAHAHAHA.
Sean Daniels that's a basic boogie with a turnaround. Good lesson for THAT but definitely not "every blues song". Don't pigeonhole the blues, the Grandfather of it ALL! I just subbed u yesterday don't disappoint me!
Because of you now I can be a rockstar thanks mate I'm 61 and now I can play what I always felt thanks sean
Hey Sean how's it going