This 2 lesson guitar lesson set, Electric Country Blues II and and its companion disk 1, comprise a unique set of guitar lessons that you wont find elsewhere.
You have heard that before but this time its true and I ought to know. Additionally, Don't let the word 'country' in the title put you off. What you learn about the guitar here you can apply to a wide variety of styles. There are even some jazz chords in here too but there is so much more than that! This is about work but having fun with it too.
Still if you aren't prepared to at least attempt to learn to hybrid picking you will only be getting the left hand side or the fret board neck lay out aspect which is a lot and what a good flat picker might achieve but your flat pick alone cant always recreate finger picked. Some hybrid picking is easier than others. Its not that hard for a determined student but you need to start slow and take the long view.
I just copied out the menu for you below and in it you will see guitar players and songwriters that others have yet to make guitar instructionals about.
The late J.J. Cale for example is listed and there is even a play along with the band segment where Jim plays with the band and he cuts out and leaves space for us to play. Now it just so happens that J.J. Cale is one of my heros and I have a couple of his disks & greatest hits and have played along with them numerous times over the years. The reason is, besides being great songs is that they are relatively simple and you stand a better chance of learning with songs that are well 3 or 4 chords and not more difficult.
It helps that JJ wrote many cool songs! Like Same Old Blues Again, I guess would be my absolute favorite of his songs...even Captain Beef heart covered it on his Moonbeams and Blue jeans record.
Mark Knopfler was also influenced by JJ not to mention Eric Clapton. There are other songs of course and the Cajun Moon groove demonstrated here is a cure for that empty look you get when you just cant figure exactly what he played. This is a good guitar scholastic set that would get any budding guitar player wriggling' like a glow worm as long as they were willing to hybrid pick some of the time.
Lonnie Mack starts off the lesson and we all remember reading that he was an influence of SRV which Jim brings to our attention with some great finger picking the open E chord and hammering on and droning a low open A string. Next its a SRV, I mean Lonnie source lick fest. I reach for the pamphlet and am pleased to see correlation.
Following in due time is New Orleans Boogie an excellent Jim Weider song performed for us and influenced by Lonnie Mack that we get explained to us just after. Lonnie used a Magna Tone amp with Stereo echo. We start talking 6th chords in the key of A for a bit and there is an hour and twenty minute to go! This looks like hours of fun learning sixth shapes and their inversions, thirds and seventh Diads or double stops up and down the neck. Its a professional way of looking at the notes that others have learned to good affect. Jim suggests playing our thirds in scale patterns and talks more music theory in this than any other of his guitar lesson lesson's that I have also reviewed.
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