How to Play like Chicago Blues Legend Magic Sam

[@dougguillaume]

Such a great lesson. Thanks for sharing.

[@7thhousemanagement7thhouse56]

Andy Aledort!!! I came across your Jimi tutorial many moons ago. At last we cross paths again and now I know your name. All praises to you and your excellence!! As I grow musically I see I have come full circle. Mr Magic Sam! Whooooooweeeeeee Magic blues

[@circlecloud11]

Andy is like the Harvard, Yale, Princeton professor of rock/blues guitar. He was the first and the best to break down what all the greats where doing. And if you've ever seen him you know he's pretty damn great himself.

[@AndyAledort777]

Re: the tone, I'm on the bridge pickup as you can see, and I just have a moderately distorted tone (mighta been a Tube Screamer) and a touch of delay (Carbon Copy). Sam's tone on this is heavily overdriven--sounds like his amp is on 10 or close to it, plus he had humbuckers--on Earl Hooker's borrowed Univox Les Paul! This one definitely needs some gnarly ass grind to it...

[@siddells]

+Andy Aledort Cheers - it almost sounds twangy or swampy. A quirk of a tone - I love it.

[@AndyAledort777]

Rt on Shaun--you gotta get some gnarly-ness in there for the Magic Sam stuff...

[@JosephMajocha]

I heard he uses no pedals but simply turns everything all the way up on his amp

[@3rdtonefromthesun]

Just want to say thanks for the fantastic tablature work you have done, it's really so eerily accurate, without it I wouldn't be half the guitar player I am. Cheers!

[@AndyAledort777]

Hey guys--I built this Strat back in 88 with an Esp neck & body...they replicated the neck on my 61 Strat but made a maple 22 fret version...the pickups are Seymour Duncan SSL1Ls from 1980, w an SSL5L in he bridge...great gtr....

[@ronj9448]

I was just dreaming of learning this and through the power of Guitar World and Andy Aledort (fav instructor) here it is. Great lesson as usual. More Magic Sam Otis Rush and Chicago Blues!

[@HarryHumpo]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! Been trying to do this by ear and wasn't able, this is great.

[@SixStringSicario]

Been trying to get this down for a while now. It's not easy. A lot of dynamics. The magic sam video on KZbin of him doing this is so awesome.

[@uttz9]

Thank God! Finally someone teaches this. Thanks GW and ANDY!!!!!!

[@jean-lucantenni2982]

merci beaucoup Monsieur Aledort ,really !

[@saulharris4089]

Magic Sam and my dad Shakey Jake Harris was putting it down on the Blues side of things in Chicago. Rest up to the both of them.

[@christianboddum8783]

There's some of that R.L. Burnside drive going on here as well :-)

[@nelsonstrange888]

You got it!

[@JamieClemmons]

Helluva lesson Andy thank you

[@PeterKertesz2013]

That guitar is looking beautiful!

[@armandosolorzano570]

thanks andy, love this tune u da man

[@ShlomirBareket]

Awesome lesson. Thanks AA!

[@taojones4941]

So creative.

[@001mcampbell]

Thank you so much for this!!!

[@paulcooper5748]

Love it sams boogie.

[@MichaelEmmerling]

That's so tasty man! I love this lesson, thanks so much for this

[@sonoranulysses]

The Tab link is broken. Does anyone have the Tabs for this lesson?? Such a great song and a great artist. This lesson is great! I'd like to be able to study in further detail. Thanks!

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Hi Andy you were a friend on You Tube years ago . Cheers

[@marcustriton6978]

very cool lesson. TY. :)

[@DwainDwight]

wow. thank you.

[@alloutofdonuts3998]

I used to have a dvd with a bunch of lessons with Andy on it and I always thought he looked like he really didn’t want to be doing what he was doing 😅. I know that’s not true, just going by how he describes what he’s going to be doing, it’s just the way he looks/talks. Also like most guitarists he probably likes to play more than talk haha😂.

[@BiBiRabozo]

thaks man for this great riff...!!!

[@ChrisSchmalz]

Best lesson for this style on youtbe

[@marcelpacheco7878]

Nailed it! Wow.

[@karl5428]

The boogie is strong with this one.

[@srv7464]

Very Cool‼️＾＾

[@Kept_Crude]

Great vid!

[@robbyroth18]

Awesome!

[@DonDeering]

This is usually know as "Lookin' Good," there's a great live version in B&W on KZbin, where Sam is playing Earl Hooker's gittar. There are some differences, but it's impossible for me to get without all the online tutorials, so I'm not complaining. But if you're learning this, check the original.

[@DonDeering]

The one I mentioned was 1969, the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe, Sam's playing Earl Hooker's guitar. There's an alternate studio version on Delmark's Legacy, and live versions on Rockin' Wild in Chicago (February 1964), and Raw Blues (Berkeley, CA, July 11, 1969). There may be more, those are the ones I know. I know Bobby Radcliff's version, have heard him do it live a couple times. There's also a video of him doing a slow walk through on messiahsez's KZbin channel. Magic Sam died on December 1, 1969.

[@ardiris2715]

Lesson at 1:15

[@siddells]

Andy, can you give us the inside on that snarly tone you're using & how we can dial it up?

[@jamesnorwood4084]

Sam and Rush both were excellent singers, devised memorable tunes and really the guitar was the sauce. Without their distinctive voices though it just wouldn't be the same. Makes an eloquent argument to just be yourself. No two are the same; each person is unique as God made them and imitation at best is imperfect.

[@charlespeterson3798]

Kind of reminds me of a 9 Ball break where all Hell breaks loose and all the money balls are potted and you feel like all the money in the world is in your back pocket and you got a chance with anyone, anywhere, however you want it.

[@MindfulMaps]

Andy- ive heard that sam actually got this tune from a billy boy arnold tune called kissing at midnight. Not sure if there is any truth to this but interesting none the less

[@naranjamunicipal8047]

thank you for your comment

[@McRonson]

I'm surprised Marc Bolan didn't do a knockoff of this and get another number 1 out of it :-) Awesome tutorial again, Mr. A.

[@deselby9240]

Makes sense when you think magic sam got his start doing country style guitar before he moved to Chicago. He bluesified the F$%K out of it.

[@rickdiaz7239]

What issue is this from?

[@stevemanninghomeinsight60]

Nice Andy! Makes La Grange seem kinda silly ;)

[@billyclub56]

Andy is such a basass. Have you seen him with the Hendrix Experience?

[@DarkVelizar]

I actualy never seen a strat with 22 frets, vintage 6 screw tremolo and a below pickguard neck adjustment.

[@dudeitsapenguin8133]

So is this open A tuning or standard?

[@naranjamunicipal8047]

Oh, come on man....

[@DoumSound]

Thanks so much man! What gauge strings to you use?

[@soofitnsexy]

9s

[@jeffjackson8591]

Slim Harpo Shake Your Hips 1966

[@paulcooper3463]

Love it andy so this is in A tuning.

[@trevorgwelch7412]

To get this right : the guitar is tuned to open A ?

[@jungleninja8415]

What about hos slow songs out of bad luck and all my love

[@Groove1993]

i wonder if this is somehow playable with a pick...or at least possible to imitate the sound

[@katleejr]

Feed my brain

[@trevorgwelch7412]

This sounds similar to ZZ Tops , I Gotsta Get Paid

[@offinthehaed]

I think that's as close as I've heard anyone pick it.

[@dapperdanman1956]

can't forget Rory

[@mwbright]

I almost got to see Magic Sam at the Ashgrove, but I got in a big argument with my girlfriend at the time, and I am BITTER. Just a bitter old man.

[@eweegeewa]

Omg. This looks way too hard. Maybe I should take up drumming. Be a bucket drummer busker. I love this boogie though. How long will it take? Geez.

[@JohnDoe-vx5su]

the tabs are all wrong...

[@logiconlyzone]

Just letting you know, its okay for you to play very slow so we can watch and learn. Just letting you know.

[@letterli]

everything sounds too nervously played...

[@bobdillon1138]

Clearly not correct.

[@jamescassidy3995]

Dude! Really hard to listen to this played so much too fast & without the groove! 😐🎸

[@edbur1]

He should have called this video something like, oh , I dunno....maybe...."I Don't Actually Know How To Play This Song That I'm Going To Tell You 'How To Play' Because I Didn't Take The Time To Really Listen To It And Learn It Properly, So I'm Gonna Show You How To NOT! Play Magic Sam's Boogie And Tell You That That Is How To Play It."

[@LostSoulAscension]

Sloppy