Improv Session 2: Blues Albert King-Style

[@boomerdell]

Seriously, one of the finest guitar and music teachers out there. Thank you, Adrian, for all your great work! Proud to be a patron of yours on Patreon. Hope many more get inspired to sponsor you, too -- you deserve it.

[@simdoyle]

Boomer Dell with you on that. The Patreon mechanism is a great way of supporting this.

[@MegaNavek]

a wealth of information explained by a very nice chap.....big thumbs up...

[@rogerhuard56]

Ouf Adrien, you're the best professor for me thank you for all these videos.

[@stevenbrownlie2095]

Thanks Adrian. Very nice blues tone from that Lester. Loved your comment about players lapsing into ‘chops fest’ mode. So true.

[@simdoyle]

Superb. Thanks Adrian.

[@camcam297]

Thank you SO MUCH for being the most comprehensive guitar teacher on youtube, and the most well versed in every single type of music, experimental and otherwise. There's no other teacher on here who has your knowledge and experience with different decades, styles, bands, etc. not many 'indie rock' guitar teachers'

[@shanebrbich5698]

4:20..... How right you are sir!

[@davidkopec5587]

Wow, great lesson! Chock full of useful information for playing the blues.

[@abrigospardos]

Hi Adrian, as always your lessons are top notch! "Crosscut Saw" was also recorded by Clapton in the key of A, in his "Money and Cigarettes" album. And by the way, the Caribbean-tinged rhythm used has been described in many ways, including "rhumba" and "mambo", but I think the correct definition would be "Clave de Son 3/2", a popular Afro-Cuban beat.

[@johnhopper7509]

Awesome! Lots of learning and lots of fun, can't beat that! As an intermediate learner possibly my favorite lesson in many ways. Thanks!!

[@TheArchimedes6]

I don't know if there's a lot of demand for it, but an Improv Session lesson on Richard Thompson's electric style would be pretty cool.

[@shanebrbich5698]

Great stuff Addy!!!!! Always a pleasure to watch your videos! 👍🇦🇺

[@dommccaffry3802]

Oh man ; i so agree about blues playing , and people just wanting to spray their ( often inappropriate) chops all over everything. Great lesson, and a great guitarist to choose to do a lesson on ( his style anyhow)

[@avtobus1234]

I've been looking for a lesson such as this for a long time, thanks!

[@goose9677]

Yes! I think we all would love some black sabbath lessons! My request would be Supernaut off Vol. 4. Any any Ozzy era Sabbath would be rad!

[@chocablues]

That was friggin' awesome.....wow!

[@visanic]

Nice lesson.

[@jameslockhart2223]

Beautiful tone, Adrian. You're making me miss my Les Paul!

[@richland9335]

This was so good. Will work on these bits this week.

[@UltimateBackingTrackChannel]

great lesson congrat and thanks

[@camelridetothetomb]

Hi Adrian, thanks for doing another one of these lessons. I think it's a great series which has really helped me approach my first solos. Just one request from me, any chance you could a lesson for a song from Tom Robinson Band's first album? Something like Winter of '79 would be swell. Punk guitar at its finest. Keep up the great work!

[@rickmoore7501]

thanks Adrian, another great one.

[@patrickmcswiggan3703]

Love the new graphics, very eye-catching!

[@dommccaffry3802]

Gorgeous les paul

[@KUDGHAT1]

Wonderful man gotta learn this Sunday got office till tmro

[@kevinschmitt4050]

I got a analogman germanium fuzz face that came in this week. It is by far the best sounding pedal I own.

[@cuellar23]

Great lesson as usual(:

[@tommc49]

I used to work with folks from the UK and I love phrases like "Have a think on that" and "Have a go at it". Never hear those used here in Texas. Right then.

[@michaeld.mahoney9106]

Well done, excellent. Please keep up the great work. How about Freddy King and BB King in the future?

[@andychase7693]

Great lesson Adrian! Another beautiful example of subtlety and simplicity in explaining theory to noobs like myself! With regards to great examples of Albert King style songs are "Albert's Shuffle" by Mike Bloomfield from the Super Sessions album, and just about any David Gilmour leads from Pink Floyd. I can't imagine what Gilmour would sound like without the Albert King influence! As far as "latin or rhumba style blues, there's a lot of stuff on the great Exello label, particularly the work of Guitar Gable and Guitar Slim (Eddie Jones) although I think Guitar Slim might have been on the Specialty label. There's a Guitar Gable tune called "Guitar Mambo", a great, simple instrumental with gnarly '50's guitar tone! As far as a Sabbath tune to cover, how about "Supernaut", far from subtle, but we don't listen to Sabbath for subtlety, do we?

[@andychase7693]

Update: The Guitar Gable record is "Congo Mombo", also check out "Tramp" by Lowell Fulson, "All Your Love ( I Miss Lovin')" by Otis Rush, and "Snatch it Back & Hold It" by Junior Wells. Also, the right spelling for Guitar Gable's label is Excello. Tops for "Louisiana Swamp Blues"!

[@theghostunderyourbed]

Could you do more indie/alternative lessons if possible? Your dinosaur jr one was great!

[@Jwinn9]

Where ya been man.

[@TheNewenglandboys]

Lovin your sound with that Les Paul! Incredible! Would you tell us what pedals you may be using in this? Compression? Overdrive?

[@kingstumble]

12:46 on.

[@roryw.l4127]

CHEERS! VERY GENEROUS!

[@lamper2]

at 1:04 are you using the famous 4 note house thing? I gotta steal that term "Chops-fest" it perfectly describes, what appears to me anyway, the goal of many teachers here on youtube. Fast typing isn't great storytelling!

[@nattakritrueangchan8601]

Hey Adrian, is there any chance you can teach Blackwaterside by Bert Jansch?

[@eohippusone]

Crosscut saw!

[@Watzline]

Adrian, my oh my, how you have moved up, good for you Mate, Les Paul's Marshall, collectors issue Vox, multiple guitar rack, nice big video studio, [not your old closet, and little Fender amp,] even an old Fender Rhoades piano, fine imported Persian rug, Blimey! do you have a Lear Jet parked outside? Well you deserve all that for you have, no doubt helped a lot of Hack Guitarist, like myself, to improve. Adrian t shirts, tank tops in the future? If so, I will need a large, Thanks.

[@Heftor]

Great lesson, at usual, thanks for the content. Black Sabbath recommendation: sweet leaf

[@eyank57]

Is the best " 👍☝👍☝👍👍☝

[@mattpdrt7799]

Can I ask you what model of Les Paul is that?

[@ShlomirBareket]

Adrian and the Blues Lawyers! hahah

[@MostSimple]

🤘

[@alleygh0st]

That rhythm really has something about it yeah...

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Snowblind please

[@lamper2]

Before he went nutty-Julian Cope had that "must've sold his soul " 2 or 3 ? year period (see youtube Live at the Ritz!)when he used Don Ross Skinner-wouldn't mind you diggin' into that awesome shitload of songs! seems like you love THAT STYLE?

[@nelsonw2096]

Great lesson! "...dodgy fusion music..."!!! Ha! Jeff Beck is giving you the stink eye from his mansion.

[@FernandoJ444]

Adrian: *guitar solo* Creepy doll in the back: 👁👄👁

[@capitaldharma]

Thanks Adrian! What's going on with those sixths you're playing? It looks like you're switching to your ring finger, so are you switching back and forth between a 6th and a 7th?

[@aijem423]

Same question I had. Have seen it in several lessons but have not found a good explanation example of it..

[@tysonrinker5958]

Do a milk n cookies song like tinkertoy tomorrow please .

[@bl00df4rt]

“Some sort of boring chops-fest ... it makes me switch off completely.” You’re punk as fuck. Thank you.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

I always like to think of double stops, I like to keep some in my pocket 🙂 😎🎸🎙✅

[@Jaqaroo]

"Dodgy fusion music... never a good thing!"

[@awakeintulsa]

Best quote.... I can't stand that fusion-y stuff.

[@lamper2]

"dodgy" totally a not used word in America. our loss!