Recently I had a Guitar Virtuoso Josip Pesut come over to my guitarschool in Belgium (Guitar Training Studio) to do a 2-part masterclass. When the masterclass was done me and josip exchanged some of our favorite guitarlicks. You can learn some great blueslicks from these video's and I will present them to you 1 by 1 over the coming weeks. Here is the first video:
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Below you can practise this short blueslick played in the style from the lick of the video with the tablature. The lick is played in the second position of the minor pentatonic scale.
As always don't forget to experiment with this lick by adding notes, playing with dynamics (louder & softer,...).
Blues Guitar Improvisation I did recently with Josip Pesut!
Thursday, 12 May 2011 21:13
Recently I hosted an event for Josip Pesut, who was performing at our guitar-school, as well as teaching masterclass there.
The masterclass was based around 2 topics: "soulful guitar playing" and "getting a better guitartone". The lessons were really useful and the entire masterclass was very good.
After the masterclass Josip did a performance and I had the chance to sit in on his gig and do a blues guitar jam with him. You can watch our improvisation in this next video:
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Josip stayed at my house a few days after the masterclass and we were exchanging some cool blues licks and tricks. Some off them I will share with you in the coming newsletters, so look out for these!
Next in line in the "guitarists inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan" blog-posts is Chris Duarte.
Just like SRV, Chris Duarte was born in Texas, USA.
I was first introduced to his music by a friend of mine, who also lives in the USA and knows Chris personally. She told me about this great guitar player who she knows and I told her I would check him out.
I think it is a great thing to pass along names of blues guitarists (and artists in general) from one person to another. That is the main reason why I write this blog-series; just to pass along names of great guitar-players.
One of my most favorite thing in live is to go to my local record-shop (called "den ostendshen ploate", if you want to know) and just ask the guy from the shop "what blues-guitarist is hot?" or "what new stuff have you checked out recently?".
I just love to do that… no online shop, no itunes, no amazon, just face-to-face talking about music at the local shop. I hope this never changes, as following generations will have to do their very best to come into contact with genres of music other then anything that is mainstream (lady gaga anyone?).
So cut the crap, here is some real blues guitar music for you:
In this next video you'll see Chris play a Texas-blues shuffle rhythm with a distinct SRV-flavour to it:
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This is the first in a series of blog posts where I will feature some great guitarist that are all inspired by bluesguitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan.
First in line is Kenny Wayne Sheppard.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd started teaching himself guitar at an age when most kids are still focused on recess and lunch boxes. And he was just thirteen when New Orleans bluesman Bryan Lee brought him onstage to showcase his innate talent and already precision honed chops. Four Grammy nominations, two Billboard Music Awards and millions of albums later, life came full circle when Shepherd and his band assembled several generations worth of blues legends, including Lee, at the House Of Blues in Chicago, captured for posterity on the brand new Live In Chicago album.
In this next video you see Kenny Wayne perform his song "Blue on Black".
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It's very remarkable that this guitarist started out playing at a very young age, altought there are a few guitarist (Joe Bonamassa for example) that achieve great succes from a young age.
I wrote a new article called "Blues Lead Guitar Basics Part 2" in addition to part 1 of the article series. If your stuck in 1 position on the neck of the guitar with your soloing, then I think you will like this. It gives you some very easy ways to move beyond 1 position.
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