Blues Rhythm Lesson - 2 Note Easy Chords

Those are nice keys, it's easy but, with my guy's I need to play the hole cord the make the song sound good, or my guy's will get lost.
Thanks I got it though.

Griff , thanks for your recent lessons , I have just binned the arpeggio one by mistake any chance you could resend it ??
Next time you have an offer on the complete course plus bonus items I an going to try and snap it up .
Thanks again
Si

Thanks Griff, I love the simplicity and effectiveness of your lessons.
As most people I have little time so the short clips are perfict. I feel like I am progressing also.
Mike-Florida

Thanks Griff
All your lessons have really helped. This one is so simple yet sounds so good. Thanks again!

This is a cool lick that i can use since i'm a novice. thanks

Hi Grif, Love your vidios. I've been playing guitar for 60 years.I remember when jam was something you put on toast. Thanks again ,you keep me up to date. Dick

kool lesson, well explained, easy to follow.

Thanks a bunch.

I like it. Just the thing to show friends.

Hey Griff the lessons are great even for a player that has been at it for some years we can take something from your lessons thanks alot

Griff..real nice..tks

thanks my family & l have been through a rough time but the kids & l can sit down & try too play & have good time

Grif I know you were inviting best jam story's, havn't got there yet but did have my first pub open mike night recently, here is how it went, I did have three easy tunes that I am comfortable playing lined up, I sat down and plugged my guitar (electric) into the public address system and got right into tune 1 .......I was well focussed but couldnt hear what I was playing because I was behind the PA speakers !....... tune 2 .......my ears were now getting used to the pub noise and I was also now starting to hear my playing through the speakers, I was playing a blues number with a nice groove (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHtPYZRVeGI) when a drunk guy at the bar started banging the bar top to the beat ! now I am listening to him more than myself ! more mistakes!.........tune 3 ....it was only at this point that I kinda got it all together with my hearing and made far less mistakes!
So yes I would do it again, but different, yes I did get a good clap which made it worthwhile, and a pretty good bass player asked me if I would like to play with him next time.........sorry but I feel another story coming !!!!!!!!

Loved the video. Great description of how to do it and opportunity to apply what you taught. Thanks.

Try .....octave major 3rds with the b7 on the I chord and octave b7s with the major 3rd on the IV and V chords i.e play strings 3, 4 and 5 to get the bigger "organ chord" voicings commonly used by the classic guitar/organ/drm jazz/blues trios like Jimmy Smith with Kenny Burrell ...a very cool sound.

Hey Griff - this was great as always. We're standing by for your christmas special!

Hi Griff
Very Coollove it also love all your lessons thanks for your time

enjoy your e mails.plan to order some of your expertise before to long.the two finger deal is a cool way to keep the water clean as you said.although imust say i dig muddy.i live where the blues are not played much if any.each to his own i guess.iv been jam trackin forever it seems like,retired awhile back so need to find a jam somewhere and yes im so old duane eddy was my first guitar hero.keep on pluckin.

Very cool!!!

Very handy. No one, besides my guitar instructor and son, hear me play. With this I may consider joining in!

Griff that email you sent describes me to a "T" !!! I want to be able to play in a jam sooo much but I just can't seem to "get it"......along with having terrible stage fright. I just don't want to make a complete idiot out of myself. I have top line expensive equipment and it looks like I should know what I am doing by having it, but I just don't have a clue.

HEY GRIFF. EVEN THOUGH IVE PLAYED BLUES USING 7TH"S I STILL DIG USING 9TH"S ..JUST A LIL COMMENT
BOB.................

Where were you my first jam? Pretty much as you described. Had an unintentional vibrato from my hands shaking! This is a very valuable lesson that will help many!!!!

Hey Bro, do you have any videos of how to play scales? And in a slow way so I can follow.

This is a great lesson. For most people, the more you play, the more you begin to understand that a lot of what you hear and try to replicate is less complicated than you think. You just saved a lot of people (yes) years of frustration. Thanks for all of us.

hello i know i need to talk to a bass player but what i need is some simple bass gutair music to play with or to if you know where i can get some good bass music in cd or how ever it come i'm a new beginner on the bass and i have learned alot but i'm trying to advance on the bass thanks larry

Yes good one

Wow!!! Awesome, yet simple...I'm no musician, but I do enjoy Jammin' with anyone I can, and This is gonna help me step it up!! I've been practicing it a couple of days now and it's a Blast!! I actually recorded it and Jammed with myself! Lots of room to move in this one... Recommended with a thumbs up !
Thanks, John

Griff,Griff,Griff:
Let me start off by saying, BRAVO!. You and nobody else, have pulled me off my Plateau of over and over again the same old material, can you say Stuck in a Rut? Finally I seemed to have risen from the ashe's of monateny!! and the same old progressions. Whew! I thought I would be at the same level for the rest of my Blues playing day's! Just a note of Thank's!

A Loyal Viewer
Jeff:

cool trick

really nice thanks griff

Hi Griff I found this very good.gunna give it a go.most appreciated

Thanks

Very cool and very simple--different sound, I like it. We all could use more stuff like this! Thanks Griff

Hi Karl,

Not wanting to answer for the maestro but I use D'Addario EXL110W guitar strings, with a wounded G, works and sounds great. You also get them in EXL109W for softer fingers (D'Addario because I don't get any other brand locally with a wounded G),
cheers,

Cheers Griff. I enjoyed that

G/day from Ozz, great stuff Griff---------------------thanks

cool

hey griff can you recomend a good set of guitar strins for me i'm not liking the action i get of mine thanks

Hi Griff.
Thanks for another great lesson I'm sure this one will get used a lot, please keep up the good work very much appreceated.
Frank.

Great Lesston. Thanks

Well Griff. It happened mate. All of those lessons &practice payed off. It all of a sudden made sense and understanding of how to put it all together just came. It was surreal. BIG THANKS /GRIFF & BGU /John

Cool Griff.
Another great video and handy hints..
Thanks Mate...
Regards
John

Great Vidio I am learning all the time with the vidios you send me thank you

Simple, but sweet! Thanks

Remarkable. Don't need a suitcase to carry that riff. TKS

you make it so easy for a novice to feel like he's accomplishing something, & actually playing guitar...thank you!

Man that was the best lesson I ever had ,Thanks Griff it really improved my playing !

Thanks for the followup, I have only just ordered your blues guitar unleashed package and are very impressed with the little snippets you are already supplying to keep me enthused. Can't wait for the program to arrive. Haven't played for about 10 years but have tried to learn blues in the past but my teachers weren't into it and random tabs got me no where. My fingers are itching to get into your course. Love what I've seen so far!

WOW! A bit off topic. Griff, I see that you have the same ebony and cream 1960 Classic LP that I have. Yours sounds a lot better somehow. ; )

I got mine on clearance. I went to look at the Studios, and realized that for a little more, I could get the Classic LP with the binding and glossy finish. Total impulse buy, and never regretted it.

Simple and very cool.

Griff

I have been playing Blues now how about 8 years and love your stuff. It's always well done and very helpful. This lesson is something I never thought of but will be using it tonight at my jam with the Cruse Control Blues Band. To all the people going to jams, never compair yourself to other guitar players. Just do your thing and really listen to what is going on. There is no better way to learn then to play with others

A very simple lesson but also very important. Learning to play good cords is a must for anyone who wants to learn playing good lead. Your vids do an outstanding job of making it fun and easy.

Well done guys!

Cheers!

PS, Have a great New Years!!!

thanks for all the information my guitar playing is really coming along thanks to you i know vwhat 12 bars blues is and s0loing got a lot easier

so i get this gig in my old home town...St Jo. Mo...I really do not want to pull this train alone...the joint is called Acoustic Cafe... I put the Peavey 15" 30W, (Delta Blues), a stratocaster as a backup... a 99 Telly "Thin Line" that I am fond of, and PRS in the van and left Toledo for a little adventure...The drummer is setting up when i get ther around 6pm. The bass player shows up around 7 pm... we shot the bull, tuned up, and take off playing. We set up a camera...let it run...and created 2 hours of magic the likes of which I had rarely participated in much less filmed... the evidence is on youtube (ezygittar09) and on my facebook page. They made me better and I made them better... magic night...Thank you Lord for letting me be one of the three that night.

Good chords for a band but less effective in a duo or trio

Simple pimple bragh!

Thanks for your help Griff,
now i'm in vacation i think i will have time and taste of playing back guit. a little bit.

Wish you great Christmass holiday , see more from you , bye !

Griff, Thanks I am enjoying this info all the time. I am a bass player and am learning lots from you. I have always loved the blues and you make it where anyone can understand "how to play it". Thanks again.

Dude, that is flippin' amazing. I try to keep my blues mindless and simple, as fun and relaxing, as possible. But this little gem is the ultimate in simplicity. Thanks.

Hi Griff!
I really loved this story and video because a few years ago my guitar teacher forced me to go to a Friday night jam session at his friend's house. I was a nervous wreck! Even after taking years of lessons, I didn't think I was any good. It doesn't come natural to me at all! I have to practise, practise and practise and for many years I had a very demanding position and worked 24/7 so there wasn't alot of time for practise. But I loved to play and used it to escape from the rest of the world. Anyway, at the jams, I gained alot of confidence and played much better and really enjoyed it. Unfortuantely, they stopped just recently. I actually have a small band of friends that just get together and play (we don't play out) but only chords - I can't seem to play any solos with them. I love to watch your videos and read your stories and have learned alot so far. Keep up the good work. Thanks, Jo-Anne

Gotta love Griff! Griff neither over or under teaches. I am a decent (now retired) teacher who (without baby-sitting) will at times over-teach; leaving students bored before dismissing them as inattentive.

I know it seems elementary but music discovery - like cars, guitars, art, girls, physics and most inventions - is about grace and elegance - about artful anticipation that leaves some stuff in and other stuff out. Students here learn first precision and the value of play it clean or leave it un-played.

Hey Griff. I had quite the experience one night. I was playing and singing when my false teeth came out and hit the mic and then I got them back in almost instantly but missed two words of the song. I looked out at the crowd and three girls right in front of me were pointing and laughing at what they had just seen me do. I quickly played a little na na na na naaaaaaaaa na and we all laughed. I lost my teeth when I was twenty years old but never expected anything like that to happen. One night back in the early sixties the Rolling Stones were playing in Sacramento and mick had some guitar string ends sticking out of his guitar, (he actually played guitar then) when one went into his mic and shocked him. He fell backward like a rock and concert was stopped. lol.

*** doh! 3 x 3rd-7th I meant!

Beautiful demonstration on how less is actually more in this case. Your course & video pearls are priceless. Thank you.

Again, thanks for simplifying it for us "wannabees". Great to have a guy like you helping us out!

Nice. Some say this is the heart of blues harmony - those magic 3 x 4th-7th intervals (diminished fifth intervals!).

Thanks, Griff!! I learn something and get a littttllllle better with each video. Keep up the good stuff.

A few years ago I realized that I knew enough guitar players to put a little jam together, plus a drummer and keyboard player. I figure I'm a mediocre player and there were players bother better and worse than me that showed up.

We were of course doing some blues that everyone could add something to. As it became my turn to show my stuff (which I didn't really have much to show) I was hitting a couple basic licks and muddling through OK. Then I happened to glance up and of course everyone was looking at me since I was doing the lead. I not only lost my place, I completely forgot what key we were playing in! 12 bars can sometimes take an eternity to get through! But I lived through it. And after doing a few songs like that I became more comfortable and it got easier.

I have learned since that at a jam, there will just about always be someone who I am better than, and someone who is lots better than me. And no matter how good anybody is, it's all in good fun and nobody really cares about how others play. Just showing up gains respect from guitar players of all levels.

Thanks for all you hints and tips Grif! I've learned a lot from your videos!
Joe

Hi Griff, Needless to say "Great Stuff", however I have had experienced, now few times, where I can not load the PDF file. It tells me that the file has been damaged and it is not repearable. Any idea on fix?

Griff - I am continuously amazed at how you can demystify and simplify the blues for us non-musician folks. I can follow along both mentally and with my guitar all of this video, except for the part where you where you are explaining things for the "theory geeks', that just went right by me. It so nice to actually be able to play along. Thanks so much for remembering us perpetual novices. Happy Holidays.

Great little video lessons.
I really appreciate the attention to detail.
Thanks a lot.