Brian consistently writes music weekly that amazes me, Active Melody members get PDFs, on screen tab videos and everything else a person can learn to become a guitarist and explains it. Excellent teacher at a very good price. You want to learn. Stick around

@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes

Ай бұрын

It’s a fantastic deal! I’m 98 and a half years old and by golly watching Brian was when I first finally started “getting it”!

I’m here for these explanations that come along with a song. Thank you so much please don’t change a thing despite the minority that complains about it

Can’t get enough of these solo blues pieces.

I love these “So you play guitar? Play something for us,” songs! Another “must learn” for me! Thanks Brian!

I have been waiting for a teacher that spoke my musical language. hope to have membership money soon, but you play all the elements of everything I love about Jerry Garcia. his bluegrass blues and country sensibilities. great stuff.

@JackPitts

2 ай бұрын

Get that membership! The online tools are great and as you know, the lessons can’t be beat!

@user-kc7kj6vr1u

2 ай бұрын

dude id freak out if he did some more jerry lessons

@dionnpeterson

2 ай бұрын

@@user-kc7kj6vr1u it's all there. at least my faves, like Jack a Row, shady grove stuff, and his bluegrass feel from his roots working mans, etc... if you want Jerry song lessons. check out Toby & Davy. you don't get the why. but he has the proper fingering.

@jonathanpaulmoore4583

2 ай бұрын

9😅 0:22 0:23 0:25 so 😅😅😅😅😊

I get a kick out of it when you say things like "hopefully a light just went on for someone out there" - that light is usually coming on for me and things are starting to make more sense. Great teaching. Thanks

Love these Acoustic Blues Play it by yourself stuff! And this one will be a fine example. Great for playing around, and astonishing your friends, (as well as yourself). Can't wait to get at that last Run you did near the end of the lesson. Tastey!

Really enjoy your teaching style, especially how you smoothly integrate intermediate level harmony and melody theory, as it applies to the structure and context of the tune👍. This old Mississippi blues style lesson really hooked me.

There are all kinds of blues nuggets in this.

Garth Brooks. Friends in Low Places.

These play-by-yourself lessons are my favorite.

Just learned EP 336. This is the right one to follow up. I love these kind of lessons!

Love these stand alone, acoustic compositions. Thanks Brian!

Your the perfect teacher for “failure to launch” guitar player like me. Learned the pentatonic major and minor scales with the blues note, some triads (E,A&D), hybrid picking and still can’t bring it all together. Your videos are making a difference. Thanks!

Best blues lesson vdo i've ever seen. 💚🎸🙌

This is just so much fun, thanks so much for posting this. I love learning new guitar pieces that interchange rhythm/chords with lead licks, and this had some real gems in both the licks and the chord tricks (that B7 for example). Love it

Thank you! Nice little blues to impovise with and I picked up a couple of licks.

I’m liking the way you are explaining things, understanding the theory in a simple practical way

Thanks Brian, absolutely love the Blues by yourself lessons. Watched it through to get my head around it. Now over to the premium site to learn it today. I really appreciate how easily you explain the theory and connectedness. Makes so much difference. Thanks as always 🙏👍

Awesome stuff again. Another one in my liked videos. Its over one hundred now. My playing has improved massively since joining active melody. Thanks very much.

As always, I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for very clear explanations of what you’re doing and more importantly..why. Super helpful! Thanks man!

Everything is coming together love it thanks

love your use of gospel changes; they are great! and your musical explanation (secondary 5ths)

Mind reader. I was just wanting more lessons like 336. Thanks.

Excellent lesson as always, especially the song intro breakdown! ✨💕

My god ! I'll need a full week to process all the tricks explained here. Thank you so much. Bart the Belgian

Man,that J45 sounded incredible…great tone and so clear

Another good job Brian.

Brian showing up every time with the coolest guitar anyone's ever seen and then playing/showing the tastiest licks with cool timing 😗🤌

Love this

I like your teachings

Really useful session, thank you.

I love this, thanks Brian. Always amazes me how you play stuff with a flatpick I can only get close to using finger picking, sound wise (dynamics, clarity). Will be diving into it with a pick - Mark

Cool...very cool indeed

Enjoyed this blues lesson

Great lesson. Friends in low places.😎

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

haha - you got it!

@ElvisAronPresleybyRustyMartin

2 ай бұрын

​@@activemelody seriously. I wish you could teach me ??? Respectively Janine

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

@@ElvisAronPresleybyRustyMartin watch the video?

@1SGHooahStuff

2 ай бұрын

Friends in Low Places intro. I love, love, love this lesson because I'm wanting to add more blues to my show. Thanks!!

That was nice. Thanks Brian.

The first three chord progression reminds me of The Beatles' Till There Was You

Great lesson!

I like your idea with creating a tension intro ☺️.

I been listening/watching you for about 3 years now, and in those 3 learned more from you then the previous 20 (plateaued) years prior. But probably most importantly, is instead of memorizing entire scales from the high E to low E, learn to memorize the scales around their respective major and minor chords. If you can do this, it really does make everything else like nuance and dynamics fall into place much faster. Anyway, i just wanna say that over the years you have made the guitar feel less like homework, and more of something I want to do and am extremely passionate about. Everyday I can’t wait to pick it up. So thank you for that 🫶

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

🙏

great lesson

Thanks ❤

Amazing

awesome insight on the blues:)

Great; looking forward to part 2; comments to follow . . . .

Excellent video

Brian, as always great lesson. I'm picking up so much. I love these play by yourself lessons, but really, i get something out of all your videos.

Really enjoy these standalone/solo pieces. I also appreciate the advice 'don't get too mathematical about it...' regarding timing - just make sure you hit the crucial note at the right point. Often I will try and get my playing identical to yours (as a challenge as much as anything), but I think it's just as important to be able to loosen up and apply the 'feel' to improvised pieces of my own.

Brilliant. Diolch.

Nice.

Louis Armstrong: "What a Wonderful World".

@underglas681

Ай бұрын

Yes!

Noce sounding guitar good pickin

Quanta musica. Molto bene

Sweet J45

Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places?

I dream of the day I can just sit and make up music and it sounds good. I can memorize the stuff on utube but I want the music to just be created on the fly. At 67 years old, I doubt I’ll ever get there.

@Movealongtherebuddy

2 ай бұрын

I feel the same way. Even if it never comes its nice having our wood friends around. Playing someone else's stuff or just trying to noodle around is good fun.

@jermicah

2 ай бұрын

I'm 72 with the same goal; we can at least be much better players than we are now so just forge ahead

The song you mention at 5:57, is that Friends in low places by Garth Brooks? I've tried so long to find that second chord!

Inkspots "If I didn't Care" from Shawshank Redemption.

So Cool man...How many years you practice Guitar?

Great sound really enjoyed it. I am wondering what the basic structure is. If I am counting correctly I hear 20 measures. So it's not an eight bar blues or a 12 bar blues or 16 bar jazz piece?

❤

I'm sure you have friends there as well;)

Sounds like, Friends in low places.

Blame it all on my roots.....🎶

@Dlee966

2 ай бұрын

The comment I was looking for 😂

Fun

Thanks for another great lesson. May I ask what gauge strings you use to do all these bends? I’m using Martin flexible core lights

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

Always 12 gauge on acoustic for me (D’Addario)

Yet another excellent work of Mr. Brian. Great composition. Thank you ! Other way around, I have long time unsolved mistery linked to EP288 viz: what amplifier did you use for that record ? Thank you in advance.

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

Man I have no idea! If any amp back then probably a Fender Blues Jr

@affa2005

2 ай бұрын

@@activemelody Never mind . It's one of the sound I'm looking for and ... still looking. Thank you again and keep going.

Great piece. Nice to switch it up to the acoustic once in a while. Pretty easy to learn and play so far. We’ll see how the second half goes…Nice haircut😂

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

hah - thanks! :)

Thank you for my next exercise. What is that microphone you are recording with?

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

Ear Trumpet Labs - Edwina

I’ve got friends in Low Places

I have Friends in Low Places ;-)

in LOW-OW-OWWWWW places

Hi Brian, that's what we do, just steal it! Wow, is that the way it is in Nashville?

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

That’s what everyone does when you learn a lick from someone.

@douglaschristine8387

2 ай бұрын

​@@activemelodyjust messing with you. Good lesson and have a wonderful weekend. Peace Brian.

Garth Brooks song.

"Blame it all on my roots........"

Friends in low places

I'm getting Whispering Grass, the Ink Spots??

@lyndontaylor1380

2 ай бұрын

Got that song stuck in my head now! Not complaining; what a wonderful record!

Garth Brooks

Friends in Low Places

Come fare diventare facile quello che sembra difficile.

I showed up in boots…….

Garth Brooks???

Holy Crap, You challenged us to name the song that has that same Introduction. It is on the tip of mine tongue, but i just can't bring it out. What is that?! I know it, ughh.

@lucashandley1150

2 ай бұрын

Eric Clapton - nobody knows you when you're down and out ?. Maybe ?

@jonalano

2 ай бұрын

Friends in low places 🤪

Спасибл из россии!

I don't have the people skills for this. 8 1/2 minutes in and I'm waiting for something I can use. It's like escaping from Shawshank.

@JackPitts

2 ай бұрын

No idea what you’re talking about

@activemelody

2 ай бұрын

you could always use the scrubber to skip forward then. that's what they make that thing for

@smwallace2368

2 ай бұрын

"Patience" must have auto-corrected to "people skills" and the commentor is either too lazy to correct it or too dense to recognize it.

@JackPitts

2 ай бұрын

@@smwallace2368 😂

@mikemoodie

2 ай бұрын

What are you on about?

Great lesson!

Nice.

Friends in low places

Friends in Low Places