Very good teacher

This was such a clearly explained tutorial - thank you very much.

Thanks you i really enjoyed how you explained that it helps me a great deal.

I haven't found the link to the backing track on the description. What mode is that backing track?? Dorian?, mixolidian? 12 bars?

Thanks for your lesson,sir! So clear and perfect for beginners with blues!

Ugh, so boring…next

I play piano and rhythm guitar- can you please explain why c flat would be useful as opposed to b major, since most of us are going to recognize the b note as a B not a C flat, so it seems C flat is unnecessary confusing! I'm sure there's a reason for it, I just don't know what it is!❤

Oh wow I’m so freaking mesmerized. I’m relearning guitar and this just touched my soul and gave me the inspiration not to give up. Thank you and thank you John Lee Hooker RIP!!!!!!❤

Best explanation Ive seen it’s helped me a lot

As I'm waiting for my guitar, I'll have to go back thru all your underrated precious lessons for reviews. Thanks a lot!

Helpful, thank you.

Obviously a few thousand people liked this, but I'm not a fan of this type of lesson that doesn't teach you anything but a sequence of almost correct mechanical movements. You may be learning a song, but not how to PLAY on the guitar. At no point do we get to see the sequence played through for a whole verse. Picking direction is shown, but we don't get taught about up-down picking technique. The bass part shown around 2:20 is incorrect: it should be alternating between a fretted G and the open E, not a fretted F#. How about talking about how it's all minor pentatonic based and uses the first position blues scale with a little extension on the high strings? The use of the flat 5 (Bb) on the second phrase as a "blue" note for dissonance. A hammer on for the B in the last lick is the correct way to play it, and sounds a lot better than picking each note. Just to be clear: this is not a criticism of Billy (he honestly seems like a nice guy), it's just a commentary on this lesson. I've been playing for over 45 years and now I'm a stodgy old fart.

I watched this video ten years ago and have been using this every day since I learned it. I have since passed this lesson on to anyone learning guitar and when I was doing that today, I thought I’d look for this video and was happy to see it still here and helping others. Thank you so much.

Great video ! You really have taken a Fantastic approach to teaching . Up close fret work plus tabulators . Truly Great !

Where can I find part 2?

Will you be my dad???? I CANT TELL YOU HOW EXCITED I AM TO FINALLY UNDERSTAND AND PLAY THIS!!! sir, I first heard Mr. Johnson and my first intro into blues when I was 13 by pure accident. I was like “OMG What is THIS!?” Two years later I got my first guitar, and now 35 yrs later, I can finally play what started it all. My god.. first video/lesson that makes sense! from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU.

Great lesson, clear and inspiring. Thank you very much

Cool.

Cool.

Thanks❤

thank you very much sir!

thank you!

I know the very well presented in interesting lesson, but as a tone deaf bass player who is actually hard of hearing, I'll just let somebody say we're playing this in A or whatever and I'm away if I can remember the next chord so I always assume that meant it was in A. also with the power of the internet, unlike when I was a teenager I look online and it might give the chords or I'll look at play along tracks. and I just assumed that the first chord represented the cat was in maybe small complicated than that, but I've been living in a wonderful falls paradise 😁😊

Another very well presented. interesting video and to repeat what I said in an earlier post. I play bass and I've never played lead, but there are different ways to improve and this is a very watchable, informative series of videos I was in the impression the blues songs were offering in meineke not in a 7.Dominant 7th chords ...have I got this wrong or is it only part of the story And blues is often in minor or in seven dominant seventh. The second question is that if somebody was playing a blues in C major then I could play C E G E As a pattern and if necessary, go beyond it to make it two bars walking bass style but if it was in C minor i guess I should play C Eb G Eb And beyond. is this correct? and quite often they don't tell me whether it's made a reminder at the blues jams. they just stsrt playing and it sounds okay anyway😂 I don't really collect anybody ever saying this is in c7 but if they did would I play something different? thanks

When i see B/F# I believe that means it's the chord of B, but F# is the lowest note and it seems to be a dominant note. I've been led to believe that as a bass player, I should play the F sharp and indeed why not experimented in this instance and play the B it doesn't sound good. in fact, it sounds wrong but If I played B on bass it would still sound okay but just not sound as good or as interesting is it my lack of music clear or or am I correct? and in this instance B would actually sound wrong rather than not sound appropriate

that was a very pleasant and well presented lesson. you speak very clearly and you don't say hey you guys... And there's nothing wrong with that but it does irritate me so thank you for not doing it. I found it remarkable that you say some bass players responded in a negative way. I haven't heard this other video but you don't say anything in the slightest bit arrogantly and it's clearly obvious you're just giving ideas out. I play bass but no more. am I a musician than as an English speaker. I am a poet or an author. I simply play bass but I am absolutely not a musician. personally, I find it quite difficult to believe that any lead or even rhythm guitars can't simply pick up a bass and play it whether they play it well is a different matter, but to me one is To a certain degree a subset of the other ( in terms of the notes) even though they need a approavh different feel. I have heard many many lead guitarists play bass and they've played bass for a variety of reasons and they generally don't make mistakes, but some of them play such tedious bass lines and others don't provide much for foundation for the music and seem to spend 99% of the time playing a lead bass which for me doesn't work. unless that is what the song was designed for. Many leaf guitarist have started on bass. And usually they play the bass with the feeling and drive of a bass player with the extra knowledge and experience of a lead guitarist and it's wonderful to listen to. such a specific riffettes as in a whole lot of love. paranoid we got to get out of this place. etc I never try to learn what a bass player has played. I wouldn't be able to learn it and I would forget it. I simply do not have a good musical ear or memory for sounds so I cannot learn / remember these. very clever bass lines people have played I have little or no music theory or training but I am looking at that nowadays and what I look for is the chord, progressions and structure of a song. once I know the chord progressions and that can take me a while to learn I just mive between The chords and yes, I'll sometimes get it wrong and I'll often play something that isn't in the appropriate scale, but on balance it works and that's simply how I play I've played many blues numbers quite well without having any idea which song im playing, but I think there's a lot for me to learn So I'm going to look at your video on the Blues.

Great lesson. Love the singing too

it looks to me like playing over e penta...

Aces! TY!

good day please try a down bit only I am from Jamaica

Love your videos. As a guitarist, your instruction makes the transition to a bassist much easier. K.I.S.S - Keep it simple stupid. The foundation of success. Thank you.

Bellissimo

Hi Im a super beginner, Im finding your lessons to be super comfortable. I like how you take your time in showing the fingers to frat, showing over and over again. I can get comfortable with your lessons, please keep the slow paste for super beginners.. Much Respect

This is so accurate.. Thank u

Great lesson Nick, I always learn new things when watching your videos

The vanilla cadences.....but they become much more with syncopatio, see page 5 compund 5/4 cadence with a prepared dissonance. Acoustic sustain is perhaps a bit weak to demonstate, but it's an overlooked glory for electric guitar: derekremes.com/wp-content/uploads/compendium_english.pdf

You have change my life,thanck

I haven’t been able to relax my strumming hand until I followed along with this. Well done.

Sounds like you need a higher action.

😂🙏🎼

I have a lot of respect for Robert Johnson I'm a lead and rhythm guitar player in a hard rock band and we are wanting to remake a song by Mr. Johnson to pay our respects to him.

Better than most lessons here on youtube. Well appreciated 🙌🏼

Your original videos on the circle of fifths was my launching point, after 30+ years of strumming without understanding, towards a lasting affinity to father charles and his battling and a deep dive into music theory that has expanded my playing, taught me to improvise and brought so much freedom and fun on guitar. Would thoroughly recommend the this fella as the best explainer of the circle of fifths and key signatures on KZbin and beyond. Period. Fact.

great lesson man!! got me playing it much better

dont understand the Plus 5 minus 3 math (when you explained the full tone shift between strings)

Thank you ✌️🤟

I know this one is 10 years old, but the channel is still quite active. The links in the description for the site are all broken, which is a shame. Having taken a look, or tried to, it's disappointing that there's no content at all visible unless one signs up first.

Look forward to, and enjoy all of your videos! Best of KZbin!

Simply fantastic lesson- thanks!

this was soo good thank u