Minor Blues Chord Progressions - Guitar Lesson

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Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Michael Williams explains minor blues progressions for the rhythm guitar in the style of BB King's "The Thrill is Gone" in this Berklee guitar lesson.

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[patwrotethis]

im doing this on my acoustic and it hurts.

[MaladaptiveCatalyst]

man every time i watch a guitar lesson video on youtube i simultaneously feel inspired and pathetic...i can play guitar and enjoy it, but i comparatively suck. oh well.

[TheEcho134]

@MaladaptiveCatalyst i hear you

[moebiscuits]

@MaladaptiveCatalyst I'm with ya there. Been playin' for 20 years, and still no better than most guys who have been playing for 2 or 3.

[BlackCrescentBrigade]

@MaladaptiveCatalyst

That's exactly how I used to feel when I was 7 and my sister was 10 and she would ride her bike (and I hadn't learned yet). THEN, I watched, and watched, and tried...OVER AND OVER AGAIN, and I learned. Life is all about doing and not feeling defeated when it doesn't come easily. If you write your name many times with your left hand (assuming you're right-handed), it will look very legible after a thousand times. Guitar is exactly the same. Practice becomes skill.

[GouledXD]

I was just improvising to that R&B rhythm section, and it was awesome. I've never really played with a backing (band setting). I think my ego just got a boost today.

[Pedafexifixifax]

@patwrotethis

My Teacher always said : If it hurts you do it right ;)

[andrewtuma]

Oh Youtube, where were you 15 years ago when I was aspiring to be a guitar hero?

[ringostarky1]

@mecasper1134 standard - it's just a I IV V minor blues progression in A. using the top 3 strings of an Am chord at the 5th fret and sliding them up to Bm and back again before going to the IV chord which is Dm7.

[leekousek]

Too cool!! Thank"s...

[SubsistenceSC]

@steveoh2395 Triad. 

[SupaTROopa2]

@Mattcallaway86 Well, it's something more I've never seen, I can play already and just come to Youtube for the odd tip, just getting into blues actually. To answer your question, tutorials always show the fingering up close as if you were looking straight at the neck. I've always wondered if it would be easier for people to see it from a players POV instead of straight on. To me when I actually look at the neck when I'm playing, it looks way different that someone else playing, a new perspective