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This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Hats off to folks who can cleanly rake like this chap.

Nice lesson. It’s tricky to learn but when you get it down it’s gold

Nice job man! Really spent time to get it into our skulls and fingers. Like the way a Rake can become a Chuck ala Chic and a full bar strummed Rake can become a Jimi H intro to All Along T W! Respect.

Cool! This is the type of practicing that convinces people you have finally lost your marbles. It’s one of those techniques that takes a long time to perfect if that’s even possible. There’s a great set of 5 lessons on KZread where B.B. King shows a lot of his methods. One of them shows his raking technique. He does a G arpeggio and as with most blues techniques, nobody does it better than B.B. Outstanding lesson Corey!

Glad to see you focus on the right hand too. Had a teacher once who said “the key playing blues is horrible right hand technique done perfectly.”

I can't believe how good my right hand has gotten and I couldn't tell you how I figured out the rake to save my life. I just started doing it one day.

@coreycongilio

Жыл бұрын

great to hear!

5:50 "yer sloppy right hand"--good term. I appreciate the corrective awareness...thx!

Most likely was me remarking about extending 'The Rake is Dirty' technique off your nice Texas Blues Rhythm Factory course, Corey.....you know me.......I'm perpetually guilty of making reference to specific lessons off your years old courses like you have instant recall!! Glad you covered this............I thought we'd have to learn raking from your ever present Thursday landscapers!! One thing that would have highlighted this lesson though.....is review of that cool quick SRV slide from below the 12th fret for emphasis!! This occurs around the 1:00-1:14 minute mark on your initial demonstration of this raking technique!! Very cool lesson and I especially liked how you emphasized to your KZread fans that this is a fantastic means of practicing our pentatonic scales at different positions on the fretboard!! Jim C.

I love that guitar

This is the only helpful video I could find on this concept... thank you for your gift of teaching!!

The down and dirty good ol'rake ! Great lesson Corey !

I’ll never forget the first time I saw another player do a rake into a bend and realized that my NOT doing rakes was at least one reason my playing sounded so “polite” and boring!

Thanks Corey, you got me raking! Observation: In many situations when relying on the left hand for muting, I have to mute where the related chord notes are, because if I mute elsewhere, the sound of the notes on those muted frets does leak in and change the color of my main note.

OMG so greatful for this lesson really trying to get that SRV sound and racking is really where i need to zone in LOVE YOU COREY thanks again!

This… This is what I was looking for. Thank you. Now to practice.

Thanks for this i’ve watched that lesson probably at least 50 times at the slowest speed to really figure out what you were doing. Worth it because of how awesome the sound is.

Thanks Cory! Ever since taking your course’s on TrueFire you have become one of my favorite teachers next to Jeff McErlain..you guys rock🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻 gifted teachers. Didn’t know you had a KZread channel until the other day after a lesson and figured I would see if you did a you did just like Jeff! I am pumped🤘🏻 only question I have if you even read this is what two-rock combo you have in the back that’s turned on? Looks like a combo on top of a cab.. can’t tell you the color as color blind but the light is on and love the sound of two-rock amps!

Excellent lesson, you explained everything so well! All I need to do now is practice, practice, practice. Impressive tone & playing as usual, you really showcased how to use this technique.

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great demo Corey. I remember Rake is Dirty from Rhythm Factory: Texas Blues at TrueFire. l think the explanation was good, but I find the most difficult part is the vibrato, as you don't keep your hand flat for the vibrato, so can't mute the strings so well, so can't keep chugging away. I think some more explanation about this tricky bit would be good.

Heck, that video is out exactly when I start to tackle the technique ! Thank's Corey !

wow that Texas groove!! also great lesson! thanks

Great lesson indeed ! thx !

Thank you Corey...another excellent lesson. Ties in very well with the blues shuffle instruction you did with Brett....clears up alot! Please keep em' coming!

Great lesson! And that tele is ridiculous!🔥

Best tutorial on raking ever made. If you ever decide to give that guitar away, I’ll take it.

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

Hey thx! I’ll let ya know lol

Dude you look like such a G when playing, props haha

That vibrato mate...wow!

Brilliant guitar playing. Melodic

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

Thx so much!

I love your Passion You are Awesome The sound is Fantastic

One of the greatest sounds ever! Awesome lesson Corey. Loving that guitar too - what a great look and sound!

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Thx Pal!

@johntchb

3 жыл бұрын

@@coreycongilio yeah that's a classy unusual Tele.

Awesome stuff as always Corey. Too good for a free lesson really, thanks

Great lesson Corey. Good luck with the channel going forward. 🎸👍🏻

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thanks Ted Lasso!

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

You just turned my frown upside down like Brene Brown!

You are great Corey. Love your videos!

Please, make a video how to get a great blues tone Please 🙏🙏🙏

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Someday!

Great video Corey! Can you make a video on the Texas style glissando/slide down the guitar? the fill people play in between licks? Not sure how to get it clean sounding and not many, if any, videos on it online. Thanks!

I am miles from ever getting this.

Fantastic!

Many thanks for this lesson on the "rake", very instructive and useful. Could you please watch Robben Ford play "midnight comes too soon" on RTL france and explain the technique of a rake incorporated into a rake with a pulloff he uses on the B minor chord of the main verse.I've seen many people including yourself play this kind of thing, RJ Ronquillo and Matt Schofield use it a lot, it includes a rake with a pulloff to finish maybe on the 3rd of a 9th chord for example. This lesson has been great but it doesn't explain what's driving me mad, don't mean to be ungrateful your lessons are among the best out there but can you go the extra mile on this one ?

Thank you, great job as always

Great!! I loved it !

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

So glad!

I am hooking up with you on true fire you are such a great player. Everything you play just sounds so damn good and musical

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Thx so much!

Gonna take me awhile to get this, but you've given me the tools to do so. Thank you for another stellar lesson, CC!

Great lesson as usual.....and what about that telecaster?....

@jcarb001

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, more info on that Tele

@boyiguo1992

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a Mario Martin

@jcarb001

3 жыл бұрын

@@boyiguo1992 right on, thank you.

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. A Mario Martin tele

I wonder if it's possible to do this without a pick, John Mayer and Hendrix does it with double stops and it sounds so damn good

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

sure!

Great mate

At 4:26-4:30: Corey- "..you see, I push that note down right when I get to it." Sam. "OH! Well, hell!. That' an epiphany.." So when you're raking a down stroke, your hitting the strings before the "note' and just muting the strings after the note so they don't ring out. The upstrokes are all muted rakes late in the video demonstrating the SRV technique. Alternatively, early in the video (1:05-1:40) you're doing the opposite, raking upward. So raking can be done in either direction then? You just need to be aware of raking before the note, hitting the note, then muting? Thank you Corey..

SMOOOOVV BABY!

Rake is Dirty is exactly I'm here! Thanks for this! My problem with that lick is muting the rest of the strings when holding down the 3rd fret of B&G strings. The high e string rings as well most of the time when doing the circular picking. Can you explain how to do that?

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hmm...hard to know what you're doing without seeing it.

@abteenz

2 жыл бұрын

@@coreycongilio I got it! had to hold my first finger at a 45 degree fretting the 3rd frets of 2nd and 3d string and wrap my thumb around. Thanks again!

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

@@abteenz Fantastic!

Incredible you are already such an accomplished guitarist and you are just now hitting puberty.

@whiskersb5296

3 жыл бұрын

Are you kidding? With a ‘stache like that?

@fotoajojo

3 жыл бұрын

@@whiskersb5296 I dunno. The way his voice cracked, I am guessing it’s a glue-on from the 70’s Porn-stache collection.

great lesson - thanks! That's also a really lovely Tele but couldn't stop looking at the bridge - is there a B-bender in there?

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Thx! Yes a McVay Bender

Well Corey I enjoyed this lesson, but I think I may have to go to a lower gauge pick ? I use an extra Heavy

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

So do I!

No, Tabs, tracks etc. this time? Just get an error code! PLEASE fix it! Thanks

When you play the G string, are you muting the D string with your right hand or 2nd and 3rd fingers of your left? Great lesson!

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Right hand most likely

how are you muting the D string? palm? i don't think you mention that up front....could be wrong tho' :)

Not sure how that could be taught any better - just a matter of practicing it after this video! But I do have one question: at 10:36, about playing the lower strings, you said you have to get the fingers “up here to really match it”? Can you rephrase or explain that part? Thanks 👍🏻

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

The fingers on your left hand need to reach up mute the lower strings

Can somebody please tell me what effects should i use to achieve this SRV style tone?

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

Start with a Tube Screamer style pedal htttps://imp.i114863.net/tsfamily

@coreycongilio

2 жыл бұрын

Also, a Fender tube amp of some kind is the best amp to start with. Princeton, Deluxe, Super etc.

When using alternant picking, do you use a “small circular motion “ with your pick? What works best?

@coreycongilio

3 жыл бұрын

Not so much

@coozbayt1021

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks..got this technique from Al Di Meola’s book “Guide to Chords, Scales, & Arpeggios “. He’s got a very “strict “ philosophy on picking technique..fer sure..

Sorry for noob question. But when he says key of E, am I to assume E minor? (As this is mostly a blues centric channel)

@danielbarth

3 жыл бұрын

As a rule of thumb, when somebody says"key of E", they refer to E major. If it was E minor, they would specify that. In Blues, you often play the minor pentatonic over a major key/chord because the major chords in Blues are often dominant seven chords, including the minor seven note, which is also in the minor pentatonic. And the clash between minor third in the pentatonic and the major third in the chord highlights the blue note that sits between those two notes.

@mezzuna

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielbarth cool, thank you for reply. So if some one says the key of (any note). Take it to be major unless they specify minor afterwards?

@danielbarth

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, usually that's the case. Some people might be "sloppy" though (:

If I tried this at home , i would be divorced in no time. Definitely, need headphones

👍

Alternate picking, legato, slides, etc are mostly repetition that can be learned at slow speeds and built up.. raking feels more like art or witchcraft; you can practice for weeks/months.. nothing. Then suddenly, something clicks and you're a Jedi! Point is, don't stop trying, everyone can learn it, but it's a right pain in the ass at first.

Rakish😂

Adjust your camera. Video dose not show your right hand

@coreycongilio

Жыл бұрын

Can’t do that on a video that’s already uploaded 🤷🏻‍♂️