SRV Pride And Joy Style Lesson – The Intro Lick
SRV’s Pride And Joy is one of my all time favorite songs. In this lesson we’ll look at the intro lick and you’ll see how it could be played.
And here’s the TAB for what I just demonstrated
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Thank you Griff,I think it’s very good idea to introduce ourselves beginning to use pentatonic scales
Have nice day Champion
Louis
Awesome riff
Sounds great keep it up. Thank you.
Man Griff, I have been with you for along time. i still have this lesson in my music folder.
I do know this is one of your favorite tunes that you pay live. Saw you on a video playing the song as your opening tune. You can sing bro!! Thanks !! Maybe when you in Long Beach, i’ll be able to drive there and see you play! my Last job was with GULFSTREAM at Long Beach LBX !
Groovy sound. I’m looking forward to your course.
Great Lesson as always… where can we buy the BGU T-Shirts?
really educational…
Hey Griff, enjoying my BGU2 and some others I have. Love SRV pride n joy. Do you think you’ll guide us with the rest of the song. Love to get those little tips you can only get from watching your DVD or Utube.
Really hanging out to play it and try and sing along so can go to a jam Sunday and pull of the song. Cheers Kepp those Blues flowing and done good old rock n roll.
2 Kool
Good stuff. Always helps if you play the whole thing at the start of each video so we have a guide/reference point for what’s coming next.
Thanks.
Great stuff, thanks
Peter Green got me going with his incredible sound – but your instruction keeps me going in quest of the “sound” of SRV and others.
Having seen heard literally dozens of guitar tutors, it is beyond doubt that Griff is head and shoulders above the rest…….and he’s personable with it.
Rustie,
Sheffield UK
It would be helpful if you opened the lessons with a practical demo before starting a note by note review. It would provide context.
I was about to go ape on you until you promised to go into the next part of the song in your next video!
I thought we were just gonna get this great intro and then nuthin.
Whew! Looking forward to more.
P.S. I love SRV too. I saw him open for Jeff Beck (he blew Beck out of the water).
Griff…I really like this,please keep sending lessons.Gene
Hi Griff, Having just started the acoustic blues guitar course it is nice to get these little titbits in between. I have never done bends before so it gives me a little jumpstart if it should come up in my acoustic blues guitar course. (I am only at Down to the station) a long way to go yet.
I sometimes play the second part of the intro riff on the 12th fret — ballsier!
I like and use open string whenever I can because I love the sound, and I use two note chords for the same reason. I use to think if you weren’t using three and more fingers for a guitar chord you weren’t much of a guitar player, but it turns out that some of these two note chords are pretty delicious sounding too.
Why did you write this out as straight eighth yet when you play it it’s a dotted eighth followed by a sixteenth note?
Good explanation on the intro part. Will you be teaching the rest of the song? I hope so. Im struggling with the strumming part. Getting the shuffling sound while playing the chord progression. Getting it to sound correctly. Thanks Griff.
I loved it – i am a new member to the BGU family and am awaiting delivery of the Beginners course and cannot wait to get more into it.
Stuff like this is inspirational to both new and more seasoned players.
Keep it up Griff – can’t wait to see the next section.
Stevie Ray’s Style was so simple it is difficult to master. Or should I say getting into his head in his music out put of his style.
Great brake down of it. I have not my self mastered his style. I am still stuck in my own.
how would this sound on a non-electric guitar.
Thanks so much Griff.
I really enjoy your expertise & teaching style.
Hi Griff,
Great refresher, I have saved it for later as right into some other BGU courses at present.
Michael-Sydney-Australia Nov 2016
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Come on Griff, teach the song!!
Yep! mind numbingly dull to start with and I’m thinking, “it needs ramping up”, then you did it. Love it. Maybe I’ll Youtube the song and listen to it all the way through now as I use that riff all the time, without the first 3 bars. Nice one Griff. Ray UK
Good stuff to know. I like that it has legs – play it on an acoustic and slide, rather than bend, the turnaround and you have another way to use this intro. So much of what Griff teaches has other uses. Keeps me ‘Playin’ on the Porch’.
Griff, have you ever considered doing a video on muting unwanted strings, especially when releasing a bend?
Wow you male it look easy, always enjoy watching your videos
Hello Griff, I hope you are kicking that bug! thanks for sharing this wonderful style of Guitar I learned this song sometime back from ear, it was nice to be reminded why I picked up the Guitar to start w/ and of course to see if I was playing it right..LOL.. All the best! Joe.
👍🎸 good one thanks
Love to learn the rest of `pride and joy`
like to learn rest of `pride and joy`
Great stuff Griff! Love SRV!
Sometimes the best sounds are the simplest.
Yay he is my favorite, I’m playing for only 4 years and I think I’m ready to try this. I save all your videos , they have made learning guitar fun even though I’m a late starter, I love it, I hope to play and learn for many more years. I’m 66 and have a Strat that is easy and comfortable to play. Thank you for the knowledge you share .Maria
I tune 1/2 step down on my Strat and so does Stevie. If you mentioned to tune down first I missed it.
I get the videos but cant get the tabs
still looking for the other part of the song.Cant get that strumming down. As always need your help.Thanks so much for those little lessons on the side..R.I.P . SRV
C’mon Griff…Don’ stop there..! Looking forward to some more of that…
Ditto Randy Boesel, Looking forward to that next rhythm also…
Griff, you did it again
This is an intro that should be well worth the time and trouble [even Double Trouble] but when your clip kicked off with ” ….my middle finger on the 5th fret …” my head hit the desk.
Why not play the lick thru’ first? Let’s hear it all, straight up. Get us excited about it before we go into wherever our middle finger should be.
Coo
Great tune, the lesson is much appreciated! I just picked up BGU 2.0 and am looking forward to getting out of this rut!
Have a great Labor Day Weekend!
I would like the next part of lesson