Lesson 37 - Intermediate Shuffle Blues Solo 1

April 20th, 2008

Details


This lesson is the “Intermediate” level of a 3 part lesson that also comes in Beginner and Advanced difficulty levels.

This is a very typical, SRV influenced shuffle blues solo, in the style of Pride And Joy. For the full lesson, you will receive a HD video download of the full 20 minute lesson as well as tablature for the entire solo in GuitarPro and PDF format. The free lesson covers what notes to play, the extended version has more detailed instruction on each part and how to play it correctly.

The things you will learn in this lesson include soloing in the open position, playing across Box 1, Box 2, and into Box 3, playing a lick at Box 1 in the upper octave position, and a very common chord used in many blues sons. The intermediate lesson and advanced lesson will follow this same solo, increasing in difficulty. Using this series of lessons you can ease your way into the Pride And Joy style of soloing in 3 levels of difficulty.

Backing Track


This solo can be playe along with the song Pride and Joy, or to the free backing track offered at GuitarBt.com in the Stevie Ray Vaughan section.

Gear


Guitar


Amp

  • Brand: Fender
  • Model: Blues Junior Tweed NOS Edition
  • Mods: None
  • Tubes: Stock Groove Tubes
  • Speaker: Stock Jensen

Full Lesson


Download StoreThe extended version of this lesson goes into much more detail about how to play this solo from start to finish. Knowing the notes is helpful, but the exended lesson shows you how to play it as well. The video quality is amazing, in near HD quality, and in addition you will get full tablature for the entire solo in GuitarPro format as well as PDF format.

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9 Comments

  1. Kane Says:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 4:49 pm

    ty 4 lesson

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  2. sam Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 9:39 am

    is the first box played over 1st position of 12 bar blues, 2nd box over 2nd position and 3rd box over 3rd?
    thanks

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    Anthony Stauffer ( StevieSnacks Teacher ) reply on October 22nd, 2008:

    Hi Sam,

    My boxes have only a slight correlation to the traditional blues positions. The boxes I define start at the root note and form a pattern up and down the fretboard. See the 5 Essential Blues Boxes Series for a better explanation.

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  3. Greg Says:
    September 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 am

    Hello Anthony

    Bought several lessons, which help a lot in improving my playing.
    Of course the big challenge is to play with the right speed.
    I know that speed will be better each day that you practice the lessons, but do you also have specific ideas/exercises in how to improve speed ?
    Lesson in future ?

    Bye
    Greg (from the Netherlands)

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    Anthony Stauffer ( StevieSnacks Teacher ) reply on September 5th, 2008:

    Hi Greg,
    See my podcast episode on spider exercises. This was one of my ’secrets’ when I was learning all this stuff.

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  4. Ian Robertson Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 4:54 am

    Hi,
    I bought 2 other complete blues guitar courses about 4 months ago at a cost of around $200.00 before I found your site. I’ve now been logged into your site for about 4 hours and have learned more by watching the free lessons than the other 2 courses combined AND I haven’t even picked up my guitar yet! Thank you kindly!

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    Anthony Stauffer ( StevieSnacks Teacher ) reply on April 22nd, 2008:

    That might be the most expensive compliment I’ve had yet :)
    Seriously though, I can’t comment on any other videos, I’ve never bought any, but I sure did wear out my VHS of El Mocambo….

    I’m really glad that these lessons are making sense to you, and I wish you the best…

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    Ian Robertson reply on April 23rd, 2008:

    Hi, it’s not so much the other courses were no good , yours hit the spot. Especially the overhead camera angle.
    Bye the way, forget the curtain. It’s SRV style we want to learn. Not curtain Hanging. !
    Hollycan (youtube)

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    Anthony Stauffer ( StevieSnacks Teacher ) reply on April 23rd, 2008:

    Yeah, I don’t want to obsess over details like that but from a practical perspective it does create much better contrast for focusing the camera, and the resultant videos can be compressed at a much lower bitrate for the same level of perceived quality. Hows that for some geek speak? :)

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