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Blues guitar is something most of us have played at one time as guitarists, but what separates the pro's from the amateurs? In this video, my friend @coreycongilio and I discuss some of the concepts that pro players use to get the most out of blues guitar.
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Sometime in the 2000s BB King was interviewed by Guitar Player magazine and the interviewer asked him what he practiced. His answer? Scales and arpeggios. He said, "...but I don't *run* the scales. That would be like reciting the alphabet instead of spelling a word." Exercises make for better facility with instrument, so use them--just not onstage.
Here's my advice to anyone trying to learn the blues- you're going to start with a three chord, 12 bar progression- so find the three notes in the pentatonic scale that match those chords. In other words- if you're playing out of E- then you need to know where E, A, and B are in the scale. And since these notes repeat within the scale- then you need to know where all the As, all the Bs, all the Es- are. And when they're playing the E chord- resolve your licks to one of the E notes. When they play A- resolve to one of the As- it's that simple. And no- this isn't like all you need to know- not even close- but it really gets you started understanding how to tie what you' re playing to the rhythm so you' re not just noodling in tune with the band- you're part of the song, not just layering something over it. And sometimes- once you get good with improvising lead- you won't resolve to the same note as the chord they're playing- but at first, I would do it with each chord. Just play short 3-4 note licks that resolve to the chord in the background. To "resolve" just means to complete- so the last note of the lick should match the chord being played at that time. Now here's a different way to think of resolving- let's say they're playing an A minor- instead of resolving to an A- try resolving to the note that is defining that chord as a minor. So, it would be a flat third in this case- because to change an A chord to an A minor- you flat the third. If it's a major chord- you would play the third- not the flat third- see what I mean? If it's a 7th then you resolve to a 7th- that's the note that is defining that chord. When you do this, it really accentuates whatever feel the song already has. If it a minor and sounds all smoky and mysterious- it's going to really bring that out and make it evident.
Someone should have told me this before
great advise🤟😎🎸
Cool advise, this is the first little baby steps to "playing the changes" and will make it sound like you know what you're doing. ❤❤ ❤❤❤
You described it very well, rock on dude. It was such a surreal feeling once it finally clicked for me, and at first it was hard to keep up with the chord changes but with some daily practice it will start to come naturally and quicker. Took me a couple weeks playing for less than an hour daily to start noticing a change, but it really got me excited about guitar again.
DUDE! I just styarted and this made SO much sense. Thanks for piping up.
Love the hang as always! Appreciate everyone jumping into the course and…get Rhett’s courses too! He’s got some GOOD ones!
You are the best blues teacher I've come across. Thanks for all you do.
Good vibes, man 🤘
Corey is an incredible guitar player and instructor !!
@@dmc549appreciate that!
Great playing and good vibes man, gonna check out your courses
Albert King was 44 when Born Under A Bad Sign was released in 1967, and SRV would have been 13. SRV released Texas Flood when he was 30, so just remember it takes time to get really good and we are always standing on the shoulders of giants
Stevie was bringing it in his late teens though. He was paying heavy dues by playing two gigs a night often. I would say his lead playing in his late teens and early twenties was peeling the paint off the walls.
Man this is really helpful. When Corey advised to limit yourself and quoted “you don’t have to use every word in the dictionary to make a sentence” was so mind opening to me. Very simple but is exactly what I think I need to get out this frustrating rut I’m in. Very helpful, thanks Rhett and Corey!
Same here, the other thing that helps me. Often when you look at tabs for your favorite solo, you’ll see it broken up into multiple licks as they move around the neck. Some are far and shred, some slide more and others bend. They vary in speed, my mind tries to go max speed every time.
It’s a message that SO many guitarists should learn from…
Been playing guitar for 35 years and only in the last week did I ever hear about treating metronome clicks as 2 and 4. Of all the riffs and tricks and theory I was taught, THAT one would have been a serious boost to skill-building. ... *sigh*
Corey is awesome, Glad you included him
Awesome video. I especially liked the part toward the end explaining that music is a journey. I’ve been playing over 50 years and I’m learning so much these days from many young guys like these two. Keep up the great work fellas!
Corey is a fantastic player and even better teacher. Been subbed to his channel for years! Glad to see the collab with a great topic.
Rhett, time spent with you, oftentimes with guests, never proves to be a waste of time. I have gotten SO much inspiration and knowledge from your videos and I'm a harmonica player! Heartfelt thanks to you as usual - please keep up the good work, greetings from Australia.
Two of my favorite guitarists on this platform! I’m a cruise ship guitarist and I often need some inspiration to keep my mindset fresh. This helped today, thanks for the content fellas!
As someone who played in the 60s and 70s yes we had more venues and we played live a lot that's how we good better now it's people like you who carry that torch thank you.
great conversation. great questions and observations @RhettShull awesome playing @CoreyCongilio and sharing your experiences
learning the chord tones and how certain notes are shared between the One and Four Chord is a great basis for mastering the blues.
Thanks Rhett, I'm enjoying your courses at my slow old retired age pace, so signed up for his as well because of your recommendation and this video. Trying to help grandkids learn the love we have for our craft and give a little love back to you guys and gals that give away a lot of stuff free. Big Thanks and nice interview!
Corey is the man when you talk about playing and teaching the blues. I have been following him since his first courses on Truefire and I am know a member of his new community. I learned so much from him and I am know in a blues band as singer and player. I still study guitar using his courses and I can’t thanks him enough.
Thanks for this one Rhet...it echos some of what I've been feeling lately. Great discussion.
Thanks for this one bro! Def going to check out his course now!
Awesome vid. As a high beginner player who is stuck in that minor pentatonic noodling box this opened my eyes so much. Two strings set was a light 💡 🤘
Corey and Rhett…. Thank you for an awesome discussion. You guys rock 🤘
Thanks for posting this!
This was a great vid. Thank you Rhett!
This is real feelsy, kind of the real framework of blues! GLORIOUS!!!
Very helpful conversation. Makes a lot of sense
That was really good. Thank you both for that.
This is one of the most helpful videos you have made.
Yep, got the course! Love the sound and the practice. Great recommendation Rhett! Thanks for the course Corey!!
Thanks so much!
When I started taking lessons my instructor, who is a big blues/jazz improvisation guy, really tried to get me to do some blues stuff, and I just wasn’t having it. I wanted to play country and 80’s/90’s rock. 3 years later here I am, and my absolute FAVORITE stuff to play right now is blues. I can’t get enough. I even told my instructor “hey, let’s do some more of the blues from way back when”. I just really enjoy exactly what you guys talked about, using small chunks of the neck or just a couple strings and seeing what comes out of the guitar. You’ve also rubber stamped my thought lately that I really need to get back to practicing with my metronome. Great video Rhett, thanks again!!
Corey is a great player and teacher for sure !
Great lesson, Corey is incredible as you are Rhett. Thanks from New Zealand 🇳🇿🇺🇸🎯
Awesome interview.
Years ago my guitar teacher said “less is more”. He also said “your solos need to be like a good stripper, don’t give it all away too fast, a little bit keeps em coming back”. He showed me tasty bends, very few notes, it was all about the tempo, the sustain, the correct note played with the chord, attack, vibrato. Squeeze every ounce out of a single note, he was right
Great advice
BB King played like that. He can play holding one note for 30 seconds but you know he really, REALLY means THAT NOTE! You can FEEL it. You can see it in his face.
@@ratwynd yes, he was a legend. Watched him play a few times.
Thank you for introducing us to Corey. He's an excellent blues guitar player. 😍 The blues is what I strive to play. I subscribed to Corey's channel, and I'm very interested in his instructional materials. 👍👍👍
I love that point that playing with muscle memory isn’t bad. It’s something that obviously stuck with us, and there’s nuances we can add to this licks because we have the “feeling” of that muscle memory. It’s always important to force ourselves to play something different, that’s how we stop playing the same things over and over; that’s how we add to our muscle memory and be more creative. But muscle memory certainly isn’t the enemy. Let’s lean into it
Lovely discussion! Made me think about my playing a lot!
This was way helpful! I’ve been really wanting to progress ( especially) wanting to learn the blues! Way cool tips! Thank you 👍
Great advice. Great interview.
Great questions Rhett and beautiful answers Corey! Perhaps the first steps to take to get out of my own rut 🎸🤟✌️
That was very good. Informative and consistent with other videos I have seen.
Thanks for the video, Rhett and Corey! I had just picked my Gibson Les Paul Studio, volume on 10, gain on 3 and a Tube Screamer pushing my handmade 20W tube combo. I put some blues backing tracks and improvised for 15 minutes straight. Some of them licks sounded good, a few sounded amazing and some other not so much. I recorded it all. So that's how I know. But these tips are really handy too. I'm a "keep improving over different backing tracks and recording until you get satisfied with the whole thing" kinda guitar player. Maybe that can help some others as well. Cheers from Brazil 🇧🇷🤘
Cory is a badass and a superb human being! Been a friend and an admirer of his playing from his beginnings in Pittsburgh. Great lesson. Thanks Rhett.
Thanks Rhett and Corey. Really helpful conversation! - John B.
The "blues by yourself" is the best purchase I've ever made. Corey is an incredible teacher and I've learned so much thanks to him 👍
Wow thx! Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks guys for another informative and interesting (P90) session, I'm joining in with my 1964 SG Junior too!
Those were very good and insightful comments about minimizing your notes and starting with a focus on a couple strings and the metronome developing rhythm
Corey deserves more subscribers. His channel oozes quality.
Thanks Rhett! Good questions and nice discussion 👍
I've been playing acoustic off and on for years and found this very encouraging, even though I'm still a remedial guitarist.
I learned more from Cory than any other online. The courses are very affordable. I can't do all Cory does in his teaching, but I am always learning... And then I make it my own.
Good stuff with some very interesting points I never heard or thought of before. I started playing in 58 or 59 and had two teachers for a short time. I learned the blues mainly through slow boogie stuff that I learned from one of my teachers who had a group that played honky tonks in Northern California.
Good stuff! I love the idea of putting in limits. It has served me well over the years.
That was really cool cheers guys .
Just what I needed. Thanks!
Great video, I was just recently wondering what makes a great blues line so this really does help
Great lesson! I'm tempted to try out his course.
Awesome! Thanks!
AMAZING Lesson! Thanks.
Great video, very cool concepts. Love it!
This was awesome,many thanks.
You two guys is just what I needed. I want to play the Blues on AC Guitar, Just Purchased a Yamaha FSX 820c and hunger to learn ...... Again Thanks so Much. See by the look on my face 😲
Holy crap @coreycongilio Double Two Rocks?! Wowzas!! Sounds amazing. Thanks for the tips.
Excellent session! You guys are awesome.
That may be the best blues tutorial I’ve ever seen. Thanks
Very interesting thoughts. I’m definitely gonna give those pointers a try. 👍
What a great video, you guys do ROCK. Thank you.
9:41 BB King was a jump blues player in the 50s. Check his 1955 "Every Day I Have the Blues." I think it's his strongest soloing ever. Played on an early telecaster with flat wound strings.
using the metronome on back beat/ half time is key tip here. Nice I love the blues too.
this video is just awesome I love blues and my guitar Brothers cheers yall let's keep on pickin with passion and love just enjoy it I've been playing for 15 Years now and I just can't ever put my guitars down always been the guy attached to a🎸 stick with it always it will give you joy beyond truly. signed a drunk fellow bluesman
Damn best explanations of the correct way to learn blues I have ever heard.
This video helped me lots thanks rhett and corey
Corey is one of the best teachers on youtube. Very to the point
YOUR ARTICULATION OF THE PROBLEMS,DISCOVERIES WAYS TO SOLVE IS SO WELL EXPLAINED,AND I AM OVER 70, playing since 10 years old,so I mean it!!?
My ear is really improving for chords and lead. Thank you
Just bought Corey’s course. Thanks for the recommendation Rhett 👍
Hey thx!
Corey’s playing is so good, soulful, and tasty it’s amazing he’s able to teach it. You are not suppose be able to teach blues but he’s able to do it. 🤯🤯🤯
The thing about the blues is that *SO MUCH* of the music we listen to daily is based on that 12-bar 1-4-5 progression. It's literally *EVERYWHERE* once you learn what to listen for. So if you can learn to play the blues well, you can learn *SO MANY* other styles!! I'm very much at the beginning of my guitar journey -- been playing for only a bit more than a year now. But the more I learn, the more I realize just how many songs are, essentially, based on that blues style.
Amen
Which are those other styles with song examples?
That Casino Cory plays, one of the prettiest I've seen! I'm drooling, and the one hanging on the wall next to me is envious.
I think it’s an ES 330. I miss mine.
@petemccarry2326 it's a Casino
@@teodelnorte yep 1961
@@coreycongilio it's a beauty
Great tips! And loved the shout out to Albert Collins!
Great interaction. Really enjoyed the content.
Very helpful video guys. Many thanks
One thing that helped me a lot was to find every possible 3 string inversion of the 7th chords up & down the neck. After a time, these find their way into my solos as chord stabs.
Great video guys, thanks
I had a great guitar teacher that said almost the same thing, start with 4 notes. do everything you can with those 4 notes, then play the same 4 notes in a different place. Great practice of restraint and then learning the fretboard, then connecting them (over a lot of time, A LOT OF TIME)
Thank you I appreciate it
Its just open my mind so mutch
Thanks guitar brothers!
If you ever feel like you're in a rut with learning guitar just buy more gear...
Spectacular truth....ugh....
True! 😂
+5
One more pedal will take me to where I need to be 😅
😅😇👍🏼
“You don’t have to use every word in the dictionary to make a sentence” 😂 love it! 5:59
One of the best "learning on the job" the oldtimers had, was that they played with so many different people with different styles , and had to adapt to their tempo, type of playing and many other things. So they learned a variety of different styles, of playing the same thing but in a different way, and then made their own style of all the knowledge/experience they had gathered over the years.
Dang that Casino is nice.
Blues exists between the intervals that's what makes it so hard and so special its all about touch feel and phrasing and I struggle with it on that level it's so subtle
Corey is great!
Thanks so much! Really helpfull!
I keep hearing from great guitarists to slow down, take two strings or four notes at a time and it really does work. You can learn big scale patterns easier if your limit is a small box and you have time to see the next patternjust one step or half step away and you can also emphasize each individual note especially the notes when you begin or end a run, are ya gonna bend it, twist it, slide it, vibrate it, hammer it etc. Sometimes its freeing to trap yourself in a small box. You certainly learn the notes of that box anyway and whats right around it. I love these small little lessons that dont say much but have a great impact on us and those we re-teach it to. You have a great channel with a really cool format thats seems to be yours alone, I think because of the network of musicians around you. Its cool that you can teach people by letting a guest teach people
Funk help up my blues game, because it got me to really learn the hell out of 1 chord at a time all over the neck and it always has to groove
100%
Ordered his course. Great video.
Hey thx!
Insightful!
Corey's instruction, 'Don't mindlessly noodle without saying anything' tipped me over an edge I've been teetering on for ages. My piano fluency coach tells me to use cadence tied to the rhythm structure to express meaning, and don't assess the result while I'm playing, hoping for it to sound vaguely 'musical'. Thanks, Rhett!
This is great!
No idea why I haven't subscribed sooner. Love the videos!
Corey summed up my playing when he said.."no one wants to hear that stuff" 😂 ❤ great session guys!