*12/19/24 To My Subscribers:* Thanks so much to everyone who has subscribed on the basis of my first few jam tracks. Thanks very much for your patience as I get started. My wife and I have been busy the last two months with my 95 year old mom, but Saul Goodnow. More content is on the way, including lessons. I've got new drums, keys and recording gear(!) I'm also creating menu pages for my *600+ Guided Practice Videos* on KZbin. (houstonguitar.com/guided-practice/) Menus will be completed in Jan 2025. This video catalog is unlisted so that my KZbin channel is easier to browse, and so that random practice videos don't appear in peoples' feeds. I have also unlisted the videos for my Amazon book, Fingerpicking For Beginners. (houstonguitar.com/fingerpicking-for-beginners/).
@bigteno45972 ай бұрын
Great stuff bro!! Many thx
@explorer84542 ай бұрын
Beautiful! I feel it in my soul!
@jeffmay85772 ай бұрын
Excellent
@HoustonGuitar2 ай бұрын
Thanks, glad you like it. I plan to record more like this.
@admiralkrankandhismightyba1583 ай бұрын
Dang that's good... Houston good!
@bigteno45973 ай бұрын
Many thx bro!
@dankeck62303 ай бұрын
Hello Good video. Do you also teach the instrumentals at the start of your videos? They sound pretty good. Cheers
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Thanks very much. That instrumental is one I recorded several years ago as background for another video. Since you mention it, I think I'll see if I can edit that track into a coherent piece. I've been posting backing tracks, and I plan to post ambient music and instrumentals as well, so please check my channel. Thanks again for posting.
@pvbaelen3 ай бұрын
Great track for practicing triads. Excellent work!
@edwardoshoemaker77123 ай бұрын
can I play the B note?
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
As I see it, you can play a C major scale, including B, over the whole progression. I think you can use Bb over Dm7, Em7 and G11. I try to avoid Bb over Cmaj7. I don't like Bb over F in this case, because I hear the tonality as major. I like blues riffs over G11, then switching back to major over Cmaj7. I see this progression as mixing major and dominant tonalities.
@TonyProcure3 ай бұрын
Yes, Yes, Backbeat without the monotonous shuffle. Great beat, great video!
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Thank you Tony, I'm making this series of non-shuffle blues videos at your request. Thanks for posting, and thanks for jamming! I hope you'll also check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGasf6iep7ikgKM . More to come.
@CROSSFIRE196043 ай бұрын
Great Great Track! Thanks!
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Thanks for jamming!
@justinharrington7713 ай бұрын
C lydian is fun to play and familer as well
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Hadn't occurred to me. The raised 4 is a nice note choice. Thanks for suggesting.
@justinharrington7713 ай бұрын
@@HoustonGuitar yeah the major scale relates in different ways same position different keys
@rayeckert94253 ай бұрын
Very tasty, I love it.
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Thank you. I plan to record more in this style.
@TheDazler1004 ай бұрын
Very nice. Thanks.
@HoustonGuitar3 ай бұрын
Thanks very much
@tedevans20954 ай бұрын
Cant you see... I love it. Thank you for the lesson
@HoustonGuitar4 ай бұрын
Thanks for jamming. I hope you'll check back. I'm working on drums for some blues numbers. More tracks and lessons to come.
@HoustonGuitar4 ай бұрын
9/17/24: Stay tuned. More blues from this "session" is coming soon. Thanks for jamming!
@TonyProcure4 ай бұрын
OMG Yes. More, more, more of this please!!!! (Blues without eastern U.S. shuffle) Yours was such a dream to find. I’m going to subscribe with the hopes of finding more Blues like this.
@HoustonGuitar4 ай бұрын
Thank you, I will be doing more in this style. I plan to record more blues tracks. I agree that "blues backing tracks" tend to sound the same. I plan to draw from other arrangement styles, like this one. I'm finishing some items that have been in the vault for years, like this one. After that, I should be able to pick up the pace. There's a new player in the KZbin backing tracks arena. Thanks again for subscribing - big help!
@HoustonGuitar4 ай бұрын
By Request, more British Blues: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nJZaNjpKaIock
@MrRyeSnake9 ай бұрын
On 2.30 you went from the chord to the picking pattern. What is the picking pattern? Nice seeing your fingers hit the strings but not sure in what order.
@HoustonGuitar9 ай бұрын
See note at the bottom of this page. I'll tab out that section and post it here. These RH patterns are all covered in earlier examples. Also try playing video at a slower speed. Goes for all lesson videos on KZbin. houstonguitar.com/fingerpicking-for-beginners/
@astigeros12314 жыл бұрын
the reason why you think its random notes cause your not yet qualified to understand jazz....try listening bebop jazz....
@Alexis2punk4u15 жыл бұрын
ahah thats what im talking about
@dappling48415 жыл бұрын
You can't just buy a guitar and start hammering on and bending and stuff, this is for beginers
@juicyj5615 жыл бұрын
well done
@D0w0rkS0nn15 жыл бұрын
ya this is hella boring.
@joshgreen1915 жыл бұрын
just use your ear, you dont need to know the name of what you're doing to play it
@musicccoe15 жыл бұрын
agreed i like to altrernate over a major progreesion back and forth between the major and minor pentatonics and also throwing mixolydian and major scale notes in there. Gives you alot more ideas and notes to work with : )
@ML12037416 жыл бұрын
In my opinion you can still use the minor pentatonic. Sure it is not the best choice every time, but you can still play it. Normally the song sounds more like rock then. But in most cases it will sound better, if you combinate the minor and major third then (In the key of A: C and C sharp)
@musicccoe16 жыл бұрын
No, you have to use a major scale, meaning A major pentatonic which is the same patterns as A minor just moved down four frets to the F# , or a u can use a mixolydian,ionian, or any of your other major modes.
@musicccoe16 жыл бұрын
the key of the song is usually the first chord played in the rythem, if the first chord of the progression is A minor then you would want to use A minor pentatonic,A natural minor(aeolion mode), or A dorian or A phrygian mode, sometimes not all will sound good, you have to experiment a little bit
@ML12037416 жыл бұрын
This is really usefull and think that will help me a lot, thanks!
@killmattpat16 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure what to say but, holy crap i can just goof around now and it sounds good. (you should post stuff for all the scales)
@tom452616 жыл бұрын
Oysy, I know exactly what you mean. It all changed for me when I stopped doing pentatonic scales and started doing major scales. Try it.
@JoSieLove2Sing4u16 жыл бұрын
*Thank You*
@EvaSlash16 жыл бұрын
he is the next hendrix
@stevieVantanna16 жыл бұрын
Sick vibrato man!
@luciferisonfire16 жыл бұрын
i cannot explain how much you have helped me, those passing notes hold so much feeling, without them it would sound so bland and emotionless. thankyou
@Wtsmyageagain16 жыл бұрын
You miss the point. If you understand what the Pentatonic scale is, you see it's entirely based off of it.
@DeliciouslyHarmfulProductions16 жыл бұрын
this is kinda boring no offensee
@opasag16 жыл бұрын
Woooo....Smoooooth...
@caparica1017 жыл бұрын
Excellent material. Very instructive on how to play functional. Notes are related to each other and improvising is about building and releasing tension. That is more than running up an down a scale. After understanding how to play meaningful phrases you can play with real soul. Thanks for posting.