I’ve also heard (no experience except for the stock Sovtek’s the amp comes with) that tubes from different manufacturer produce different tones.

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)

The Vintage Icons are pretty common over here in the UK, Ive seen quite a few in music shops etc. Your best bet is to probably look on the UK eBay. Which is ebay.co.uk, or you could try looking at an online music shop in the UK, and see if they ship internationally. Heres one if your interested:

http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/options.php?id=71061

Also, i have an idea - get up a forum running! Something for us SRV-fans and every other guitarplayer around the globe.

Thanks,
Joakim

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However, I’d have to agree with your comment about this song not being set in stone, the freestyle nature of his improvisation during that video is vastly different than the recorded version on Texas Flood.

Obscure question: Do you (& Band) have any originals available to the public?

Thanks once again for all your time and effort put into this site, it’s awesome!

For the lick I’m teaching in this lesson, it corresponds to the lick he plays near 8:08 in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEp2QLicd9Y and it’s very clear that he’s not playing it in box 5. There are a lot of similar licks that he played in box 5, but this one definitely starts at the top of box 1 and he kind of slides out of box 1 to the 5 chord (not to be confused with box 5) as I’ve demonstrated here.

Without hearing you play it it’s hard to know what you might need to change. The only advice I can give is to make sure it’s precise, and keep strings from ringing out when your rake the string.

Nothing that I’m currently planning will nullify or overlap in great detail what I currently have for sale. The series I’m working on now is a compliment to the 5 Blues boxes series, teaching licks from each box, to add to the first series that taught the concept of the boxes, and discussed each box in great detail.

The comprehensive series I’ll be doing after that mentions the 5 Boxes in a bigger context, but will not contain nearly as much information as is in the series already available.

It’s difficult to compare the Rocketfire’s to the Fralins because the Fralins have the advantage of being in a much, much, much, better guitar. However, the effect that the Rocketfire PUs had on the mexi-strat, reminds me a LOT of how it sounded back when I had a set of Fralins in it years ago.

I know that feeling Your playing is about to get a whole lot more interesting……

Had a great time walking through Old Town last year when I was in Stockholm for a few days, but unfortunately didn’t know about any such blues jams while I was there. Of course, I hadn’t even started StevieSnacks by that time last year….

my highest density of viewers on Youtube is in your exact age range Who says you’re ever too old to learn

I’m not very familiar with that amp, so I can’t say for sure what settings would get you close to that tone. Wish I could be more helpful..

The blues deluxe is a different beast entirely, it’s more than twice the power of the Blues Jr. so the settings will be different. I’ve not played through one very much, but I know they are quite loud.

that’s actually my main guitar, a Grosh Retro Classic, which has been in the shop for a while getting some things re-setup.

this a new UK band; hey are manufactured in Vetnam. The German Guitar Player Magzine “Gitarre & Bass” has tested a LP-Style guitar, and the results were very positive.

Meanwhile you can order hem e.g. in the geat Geman nline stores, like Music Store and Thomann

Hope hat helps!

Best, Eric

I remember learning Lenny from a transcript in the March 1991 edition of Guitar Player magazine (wow that’s a long time ago now!).
After the first double stop hammer on the transcript plays the rest or the riff in what you would call your BOX 5.
Have you seen video of Stevie playing live to know for sure this riff comes out of BOX 5 at the end???

I could put the transcript up here but don’t know if that’s a copyright No-No.
Or contact me privately if you’d like to discuss.

Thank you!

Howard

Thanks, Joe

Not seen or played the Srat copy yet but, I would assume it will need simular upgrades.

The one downside was the fretwork on it. I found several loose frets on the new guitar as well as the sides of the frets needing to be filed down.

Other than that…I think it’s a really decent guitar.

I started playing guitar about 30 years ago and, until recently, have never learned to play lead. I’ve always been pretty much a singer-songwriter (James Taylor/Neil Young) type player. I’ve found your lessons to be very helpful and well done.

I, like you, am an electrical engineer and I’m very visual. The “boxes” diagrams have really helped me to see the shapes on the fretboard and that’s what works for me. I’ve tried to learn from other players that have more of a theory based technique. That just doesn’t sink in for me.

The other thing, I’ve found that a lot of guitar players, especially electric, who teach others are not so much interested in teaching as they are in proving how great they are. They will go on a 5 minute solo rant that’s just an ego trip and doesn’t help. I find that really annoying. I appreciate that you don’t have that approach and that you seem genuinely interested in teaching other to play the same way you learned.

Keep up the good work. I’m glad I stumbled upon your website.

Rick

I LOVE your site…been a while since i last spent 4 hours non stop on one website (knowing that i’m also a (web) programmer that is saying something )

Anyway, i’m loving these lessons and they’re really helping me playing like the master although i keep running into this problem.

You see like this riff, SRV uses a lot of these crazy fast riffs in his slower blues songs. I absolutely adore them and think they are one of the key elements in Stevie’s songs. Anyway i can play some of these fasties without music, but when i use a backing track i totally loose timing since i can’t seem to find out the note lengths. They sound like they’re as much as notes pressed into a few measures but that can’t be right because otherwise it would be impossible to end on the right note on the right time. Do you know how to practice that effectively?