Basic Blues Shuffle with Eric Madis

Eric Madis, a new JamPlay.com teacher, introduces the basic blues shuffle in this lesson. He will talk about how to play the shuffle in the style of Jimmy Reed. For more, visit http://www.jamplay.com/?s=19&c=269

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[sscheldt]

Could you do a lesson on the riffs you start the video with? It's a very tasty mix of licks, chord fragments and dbl stops. Very jump bluesy, exactly what I'm trying to learn.

Thanks for all that....

[2008Scamp]

hey Eric, nice to see you on the web! This lesson seems vaguely familiar... ;) - steve BTW: that opening visual blinking effect gave me a seizure! :)

[JMJ339]

MAN !!!!! I LEARNED A BOAT LOAD THE FIRST 2 MINUTES OF THIS VIDEO...IM KEEPIN ALL THEM LICKS THANKS!!!!!!!

[Cashcow42]

Thanks for the free guitar lessons.........the different angles of the cameras help tremendously.......Top of the line.

[ericmadis53]

As for Eric Clapton "Change the World", yes some of those chords are the same as one of the "alternatives" to the standard shuffle style. However, Clapton did not create that chord styling....I've got Lonnie Johnson records from the 1930s that use that same chording.  That approach is based on trying to chord like a piano. So Clapton did not come up with anything new....and I mean no disrespect to him. He would acknowledge that himself.

[tclaes92]

the same E chord variation used in Clapton's Change the world. E7 then 4th fret A string/2nd fret G.-then 5th fret A string and 4th fret G string.

[MichaelLydon]

Yes, there's no "right way" to play, I just like the free swinging right hand myself, it works for me.

[kolspider]

i think this is superfluous, jimi hendrix used his left hand thumb to play. theres no 'right way' to play a guitar.