Learn THE Foundational SRV Signature Lick

#SRV #bluesguitar #stevierayvaughan #blues
This is a remake of the first lesson I ever published, 15 years ago today on Oct. 21st, 2007. The blues lick taught in this lesson is what I consider to be the quintessential SRV Signature lick. Nobody before him (that I can think of) used it as often as he did, or played it exactly the same way. I'll show you each part and then demonstrate it at various speeds over different style backing tracks. Our TXBA Locals members will have SoundSlice tablature to accompany this lesson.
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[@Texasbluesalley]

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[@JeighNeither]

I know this video has been up for a while, but I think you'll find that monochromatic lick/trick a lot in Gatemouth Brown's stuff. I'm not sure what incarnation of him it was, he had a few different and distinct eras but he definitely messed around w/a lot of the chromatic stuff that Stevie utilizes a lot.

[@stevog5826]

Thank you for your concise techniques playing the blues. I've been playing metal for years. Now I have fun expressing my string bends in the blues. Thank you for what you do.

[@whatilearnttoday5295]

Duh. Why even draw attention to it.

[@paulhicks3595]

Nearly forty years ago at a very low point in my life, flat broke and with my wife in hospital and my children living with their Grandparents, I was driving home very late and very depressed when on the car radio I first heard Stevie - playing Testify. It was so riveting I had to pull over and it was so strong that it gave me the lift I needed. My situation gradually improved and a few months later I got to see Stevie live.

[@ht8083]

Mate that’s brilliant Thankyou for sharing this with us!

[@jasonodell79er]

That's awesome.

[@charlesshepherd2004]

Sweet 💣 that's awesome

[@claudedalton8970]

BLESSINGS TO YOU BROTHER!

[@alxmrls1]

Thanks for sharing! His music was and is transformative!!!

[@AaronLS.]

I like how this channel hasnte devolved into a gear review channel like most KZbinrs. Such quality stuff.

[@Texasbluesalley]

Well I’ve pretty much stopped posting at all because almost nothing short of clickbait bullshit gets any traction, so I’m not sure if that’s better.

[@rolfhauf4266]

Respect Teacher. Jimi played this Lick in various solos, as red house and stuff. Thank you for redoing it…

[@ladygadava1]

Saw SRV in 87 at Nassau Coliseum. He played a Olympic white strat( Scotch ) almost the whole show. Sounded amazing, soo glad I got to see him live!!

[@hoodedbugler]

I think that lick is an evolution of some licks T-Bone Walker played. Of course Jimi used it, but not as much as SRV.

[@Texasbluesalley]

Good point about T-Bone Walker. I gotta go back and see if I can spot this anywhere in his playing.

[@kuttermclaughlin3631]

I always thought he borrowed a lot from Fenton Robinson too. Good point on the T-bone walker.

[@televinv8062]

Dan Palmer comment here. Check his comment. He's saying rhythmically like Johnny Winter but he doesn't remember J.W. ever doing it. It DOES sound like something J.W. would have done. That Dan guy may have nailed it.

[@MapacheOculto]

@@Texasbluesalley Not exactly the same lick, but here Jimi using the b9 chromatically. Also an amazing lick! You should check it out! kzbin.infoUgkxWmR7VdbU5WUIMOkxjI0dy9aMxQRyzaF4 It's playing live after Buddy Guy at a bar. It uses lots of techniques and cool ideas, and sounds badass. Might be a good idea for a lesson :p

[@AaronLS.]

The demonstration is great teaching. Slow. Explained. And chunked together well.

[@Texasbluesalley]

Thank you!

[@frankswildyear]

Mathew Scott is amazing

[@jaycarlisle862]

Seen him 3 times already, and the man is built for blues! I hope he goes far! First album Mirrors is excellent for his first, tasty all the way through

[@thorpenator9148]

I purchased one of your DVD lesson videos. Anyone reading my comments...the videos are very well made, and easy to pick up these amazing licks. Cheers from Ohio.

[@diarian]

from your legendary playing to your legendary pov for making learning easier. you have influenced so many people like the great legends alive. TXBA is awesome!

[@rebluecrow]

Your deconstruction of SRV’s style is a magnificent piece of analysis and teaching. Congratulations.

[@waynetoneseekerandersen2213]

You are a good man, Tim. Been with you since 2009

[@samsonshawn2085]

Cant believe i just found your channel..2023..Im starting to learn Srv style today!!

[@Texasbluesalley]

Welcome aboard!

[@jeffdunlap9360]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! I was living in Austin in 1982-85. It was awesome to be there when Steve was busting out. Every Tuesday he had a free concert at Town lake. With more blues greats than I can list. Thank you for all the excellent teaching and material!

[@director2bob]

I live in Austin and ride around town lake everyday on my ebike and always solute the SRV statue when I drive by.

[@jato62]

Austin was definitely magical then.

[@rolandacosta9677]

Happy 15th Anniversary Mr. Anthony, Appreciate you, Long Live SRV...and long Live Texas Blues Alley....peace Brother ....

[@yvandewever6518]

Just started out 2 years ago and really loving your SRV teachings. Thanks

[@kenlelugas158]

I am so grateful that I found Stevie Snacks. You and Griff Hamlin are the best internet teachers. And the pro player is awesome. Thanks, Anthony and congrats!

[@Texasbluesalley]

Thanks Ken. Griff is so great. I've had the chance to hang out and go to dinner with him at NAMM in years past and it's obvious why he's been so successful.

[@7548778]

Thank you for teaching this great lick of SRV. I am a loyal follower from Turkey . ❤🙋‍♂

[@GregsGarage]

I've been enjoying your lessons for well over a decade now. Cheers and thank you!

[@davidneath8194]

Always a great lesson to be found here! Thank you very much!

[@claudedalton8970]

FANTASTIC JOB TEX!

[@mikeferris408]

Absolute GOLD! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍

[@Texasbluesalley]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@BorealBlue]

Great job Anthony! Thank you for the hard work and help. Keep going.

[@StephenRobinson23]

In what world is this the first time I've ever come across you? Been a Stevie fan for 20 years. Can't wait to go back through your videos and learn from you!!

[@gnawbabygnaw]

So Cool. Thanks so much!

[@morrisonmcqueen1364]

Congrats! 15 years is an amazing accomplishment

[@paultownsend6043]

Happy anniversary, awsome channel. And what a beast of a player Mathew Scott has turned into, must make you proud to know he and many others are watching and learning from you.

[@rodcorrea11]

Awesome! You have a great technique for teaching. Thank you so much!

[@alessiograziani6355]

Great job Anthony, you're a great player and a great teacher. You deserve the success you're having!!!

[@LiamWinfieldsMusicalEscapades]

Happy 15th. The amount I’ve learned from you over the years has helped me in my guitar journey vastly.

[@johnnybgood3723]

Thank you for all your hard work to make it easier for us!

[@mikechun4734]

Thx for the lesson!

[@rhythmPhil]

Time flies, I've been following you almost from the beginning. Thanks for your work.

[@obiem9319]

Congratulations 🎉 I've been following you for years.

[@modernmusicstudio303]

This is awesome! thank you for sharing!

[@jimbosker6208]

Congrats on 15! Here’s to 15 more! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[@ericwatler23]

You sir 🫵🏾 are amazing 🎸

[@nuggers23]

Happy Anniversary! I'm so loking forward to rejoining the Locals ❤

[@MTimWeaver]

Congratulations, Anthony!!

[@gnawbabygnaw]

Well done sir! I’ll member up. Love this 🤙🤙

[@ko1963a]

Happy anniversary! Have been watching since the Stevie Snacks days and now a TBXA local.

[@rudytrimarco5623]

Congratulations!

[@samfarina]

WOW! My first step into guitar was learning Pride and Joy from you back in 2008/9ish. I've been following Matthew Scott recently and to see he was your first comment is a really cool coincidence. You really started my guitar journey, and for that I thank you so much.

[@mikemurdock7234]

Thank you so much for all your content and lessons over the past 15 years. I still remember when I first discovered your channel over 10 years ago. Life moves by so fast! I was still in high school when I found your channel and was starting to branch out from playing general rock music, into blues. One of the first videos I ever seen by you was your lesson on "the grip". I must've watched that video a dozen times, as it taught me how to do proper string bending. To my knowledge, it was the only video on KZbin back then with a teacher showing how to properly do string bends and position your thumb over the low E string (this made me realize the advantages of playing a guitar with a thick neck) You also had several videos on rake techniques back in the day. Over the years, I would send those videos to friends who were looking for help with blues guitar and how to properly bend strings. Thank you again for all your content and lessons over the years. You have given the world a treasure trove of knowledge.

[@dergroovemeister3659]

Congrats on the 15 years! Stevie based that lick on a lick T-Bone Walker used a lot! I think he was the first.

[@flylilpyro1]

Thank you for everything

[@geraldbrown2875]

Congratulations 🎉15 years on YT! July 23rd, 1987 was the last time I saw SRV in concert, over 35 yrs ago!👍🎸🇨🇦

[@stratonut]

congrats Sir.

[@tatersalad573]

Nice job as always, God bless

[@cenjim]

Sometimes you never get to realize your influence and effect on viewers. In life, much of our interactions can fade in our memory while they grow and thrive in those we touched. Cool influence on Matthew Scott!

[@123pwop]

EXCELLENT Teaching, Can actually SEE what your doing, and played slow, so I can first learn it, then speed it up !! THANK YOU ! Philip.

[@oldskoolz8509]

Congratulations on 15 years!!!

[@danpalmer4820]

Rhythmically, it sounds like a Johnny Winter lick, but Johnny never did it with the flat 2nd like SRV did. Truly unique to Stevie. Great video!

[@televinv8062]

Now that you mention it...maybe J.W. DID do it at some live show or reorded on a deep cut? You may have nailed it. 👍🙏

[@rolfhauf4266]

Alvin Lee from the Band „Ten Years after“ played this lick as well… and that was way before SRV… every man has it‘s Idol..

[@Taom_pizza]

Thank you so much 🥰

[@standudek6676]

Congrats on 15 years!

[@ericwatler23]

Congratulations brotha

[@charlesshepherd2004]

That is Solid, man. 🎸

[@cansee8637]

Sensational 👍

[@thomasfulton1956]

Thank You so Much

[@vanagon555]

Congrats bud...great job

[@l1Experiment]

Shalom brotha man, I'm so going to practice this lick, thank you for sharing this... 👍😁😎💯🎸

[@brianmiller3974]

happy anniversary dude I've been watching and learning from your free lesson Friday since 2016

[@mountain_girl]

Happy 15th Anniversary Anthony and TXBA.

[@Cherry_Sunburst]

EXCELLENT.

[@davidsimpson3380]

Thanks for your insights! I found the first 8 bars of Pride and Joy in Scotty Moore’s 2nd lead in Elvis’s Good Rock’n Tonight. He borrowed from the greats like most greats do:) Many Cheers!

[@mikemurdoch2891]

great lesson I was playing in a club called Gatsbys on Morris ave which had a row of clubs I walked outside during a break and heard a wailing guitar coming from the cobblestone bar so i walked in and there was SRV sitting at the front of the stage playing his ass off to nobody but the waitress and bartender so walked up and sat directly in front of him and couldnt believe what I was seeing this was 3 months before he burst on the scene and something I'll never forget in Birmingham Al

[@mikechun4734]

Thx for sharing…sounds a bit like Hendrix in the opening solo of Red House.

[@stevelowe6169]

That's really cool.

[@nomadman123]

Great lesson! Then AND now! I think I heard this lick or similar from one or both of Mike Bloomfield or Johnny Winter. Maybe Albert Collins too. But it definitely registers as SRV the way you’re playing it. It’s awesome and congrats on your 15 years!

[@precbsfender]

Awesome lick, very useful..

[@rs4425]

Thanks!

[@willej6525]

Great video and explanation. Subscribed !

[@faroukkane6244]

Happy birthday, excellentes vidéos, la France aime le blues Texan...

[@jeanpascal4242]

🏁 Excellent,thanks

[@bigdel306]

Thanks bro .

[@johnletitia]

Happy Anniversary!

[@Daym1an]

Thank you

[@anttiarokoski6255]

Thx for The all The years! Since Stevie snacks!

[@michaeldennisguitarlessons]

Anthony, Congrats on your 15 year anniversary! I have for many years been fascinated by SRV adding the 9th and b9th to a dominant 7th chord. Being a bit of a theory geek, I've often wondered was he conceptualizing playing an E blues scale over the A7 chord. This to my mind is a very common improvising device which would be used by a jazz guitar player. He did cover "Chitlins Con Carne" by Kenny Burrell. Rock On! Blues On! Jazz On!

[@michaelnc4450]

Good stuff brother! 👍

[@garydean777]

I think I heard Hendrix do that little half tone hammer on & off on the top string before. Always wondered how he did it til I heard you demonstrate it in a vid years ago. It's a regular in my playing now. Works really well in faster shuffles too.

[@igo2054]

I guess T-Bone Walker was an inspiration for that lick. He very often used to start a lick this way but that flat9 is something very typical for Stevie

[@brianmiller3974]

thank you🙃

[@rhesreeves5339]

I was in a house band in the 90s with another, better, SRV fan, so I purposely never learned this. Now I can enjoy it (but I'm a bit worried that since I can finally play it right I'll just HAVE to use it when we jam for fun :) I know my bro, he's gonna look over like "Really?!" Lol. Thanks this was so much fun.

[@savethedandelions]

and many more!

[@barolecaskin8673]

Congratulations man I’m so glad I found you! Can’t really learn from most of these guys except you and Marty! Don’t tell Marty but I think you’re better 👀

[@Texasbluesalley]

The difference between me and Marty is that this is the only thing I CAN do well. He’s a great teacher and person. It’s an honor to even be mentioned alongside him.

[@vicentesilva5590]

🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 Very good 🎸

[@raywalters243]

Thanks, I've been trying my best to learn that damn lick for the better part of 4 years! I was close but could quite get that second phrase 👍🏻👍🏻

[@fliptastry1485]

Santana in Samba pa ti worked that hammer on/off a lot before going into the unison bends

[@spmarcq]

Your action look impossibly high, I don't know how you do it!

[@josebazan9625]

Ive seen clapton play this a lot!!!

[@josebazan9625]

If you look up Eric Clapton “Stock Phrases” he use is it as a launching point for a lot of solos.

[@Warpfield]

I think you should know that, several years back you did a review on a Fender Blues Jr amp. Back then, (circa, 2011'ish), it was your review that prompted me to purchase a new Blues Jr NOS, and I am still using it as my main amp. Just wanted to thank you. :)

[@Texasbluesalley]

Awesome!

[@Houseizrockin]

Hendrix played this lick - check out Red House - live at the Albert Hall 1969 (I think)

[@laksthegamer1185]

🔥🔥

[@strumbum946]

Everyone knows SRV was inspired by a number of great Blues guitarists. As he was learning and developing his OWN style and sound, I’m guessing Stevie made that lick his own signature lick. Just like he did with his string gauge selection. JMO

[@IzzBAZIL]

happy 15th anniversary!!! also, i think the lick can be traced back to taj mahal & t-bone walker.

[@johnglca]

Johnny Winter does something similar to that lick, check out 1981 with Albert King.

[@maltamusic]

That lick reminds me of chuck berry. It's the mixolydian mode with a passing note

[@mikechun4734]

I think that is part of the red house intro from Jimi