The Fundamental Techniques You'll Need For Texas Shuffle Rhythm

[@GaryManning-m3n]

Yes, that was sure easier than rewatchng SRV over and over and over. Texas Blues Shuffle. Thanks

[@Ryker9]

How can I make my guitar float

[@bernardogui3933]

only the dark side of blues

[@Zilegil]

We’re never gonna let that joke go

[@LesterMitchell]

Shrrooms

[@MyJund]

Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

[@seamusbrowne4909]

Try a Tap of ACID man.👽👽👽

[@intheblues]

Thanks for the lesson Anthony!

[@flamepopcovers5258]

Great class beautifully recorded and explained

[@y2kcurran]

I've recently signed up as a TXBA local and have to say, I'll definitely be hanging around for a while! Great for those of us who are completely self taught without degrees is music theory :)

[@Texasbluesalley]

I make a conscious effort to keep all my courses accessible to people with a minimum amount of theory knowledge, so I appreciate your feedback.

[@joepetch308]

It should be called the Stevie Ray Shuffle. He made it his own.

[@bluesmau69]

yes...exactly. he is the inventor of the shuffle texas blues rhythm.

[@darkmikolai]

Thats literally what I called it for a long time.

[@probehound8617]

You’re a great instructor, man. Thanks a million.

[@FreightandCargo]

Awesome, this is what I needed. Great lesson, I would like a video on that guitar stand

[@mikeherron5498]

Thanks! The best instruction on the muting part of this I have watched. I finally get it now!

[@DjWhiteBread_]

This video helped me sooooo much thank you sir the strumming of all strings while only playing one note clicked it for me!

[@Texasbluesalley]

Glad to help!

[@Frantomasss]

Thanx Anthony, lightbulb moment for me. Just as you have mentioned rhythm spacing I found that mentally I was practicing it in reverse. The pattern need to start with upstroke all strings ringing and than downstroke just that fretted note rings. I was in my head always starting with that one note and all the sound started to fall apart to awful mess. Immediately after seeing your lesson I grabbed my guitar and the result was instantly so much better and easier for brain to understand! I am only starting to learn this style and I love it!!!

[@flashpest]

Wow, I never thought of it this way. I'm going to go home and try this technique tonight and hopefully a miracle happens. I may be doing it in reverse as well. I'll let you know. This technique could potentially be applied to my whole life

[@franknisi1998]

Very nice thanks.

[@SuperRandomName101]

yea this was def one of the better lessons

[@elmanitasdeplomo]

So many subtleties in this technique!

[@gregorystone768]

A good circle motion with my right hand helps me groove ina texas shuffle.

[@jonpadron4477]

Thank you🙏🏾

[@wilconorth]

Good job

[@Bluenblack17]

Thank you man! Still practicing it to get it right. It looks easier then it is.

[@OriginalKingRichTv]

YES I will get this down

[@williambeatie9196]

Awesome teaching! Where can I find a strat guitar mount like the one you are using for your youtube lessons? I thank you in advance!

[@GaryManning-m3n]

Thank you...

[@curtisleestranger4308]

I dropped the action on mine low as possible put on a set of ghs nickel rockers 11-58 then tuned down a half step. Dam it plays and sounds awesome.

[@ajv9912]

Im sure there are others, but this is the best video Ive seen for breaking down the raking technique. Or at least its the only one that actually helped me progress with it.

[@waynegram8907]

Texas blues Alley, how do you get that SRV texas twangy Chugging sound when strumming shuffles. My strat guitar when chugging strumming shuffles doesn't make that Texas twangy tone that SRV got on Pride and Joy Live EL MoCambo. SRV got texas twangy tones when chugging his shuffles how can this be done?

[@ianspeckmaier9565]

Heavy strings, the rest is in the hands. But heavy strings definitely will help.

[@idontwanttousemynameyoutub7538]

New strings? Heavy ones do help because they don't buzz when you play them hard. Some pickups don't get that sound either - a friend of mine played some Texas Specials to me in his Stratocaster and I'm damned if I could get that sound. Plug in my stock Tele and there it was. Good clean Valve amp helps as well. Have your action not too low - you want at least 2mm at the twelfth fret on the bass and 1.5mm on the treble - it should ring beautifully acoustically with no buzz and lots of twang. Hope that helps.

[@davidalvim9916]

Very good.

[@shanedeel2]

I needed this, thanks

[@sila8253]

I just have to ask. When is Your SRV Stratocaster made? What amp did You use in SRV Strat review? You are awesome! Keep blues alive!!

[@briancraig1684]

What are you using to hold up your guitar?

[@hectorheath]

So what are all the notes that are played in succession ?

[@dmanes1011]

Wow...66 views in first six minutes. You're killing it Anthony!

[@newlandsid]

Thank you !! X

[@fayettevillin]

What pickups are those?

[@Snowy0123]

This is a lot more difficult than it looks.. it's simple but not easy. Of course I'm talking about making it sound good, not just letting strings ring and out of time which is what most people do when they play this

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

I Play it like you do ---now I am beginning to unravel this nightmare-- upstroke -clean notes ringing --then suddenly downstroke all damped --(except the note you want --open e --)-and then the rest of the boogie notes played the same way -- UP STROKE RINGING --D/STROKE DAMPED --(Except for your target note )-sounds pretty weird !

[@troesplain]

Your guitar tone is awesome! What stings gauge you using on this guitar?

[@kurtsteincamp8085]

I’ve been working on this technique for a while and I still get an extra string ringing out. Does a high action make this technique easier to mute the other strings? I’ve heard that SRV had a fairly high action.

[@Texasbluesalley]

I think it could. If you think about resting your finger on the string to mute it, the higher it is, the easier it is to rest your finger on it without pressing it down far enough to let it ring out.

[@drinkingmicstand]

Higher action means less time for your muting hand to reach the strings to mute them. Also higher action helps with how hard you have to rest the strings which is,compared to low action, really not much different. However with a low action, you may put too much pressure and get sound.

[@lollogers2010]

Which the video cam do you use ?

[@Texasbluesalley]

In this video it was a pair of Sony NEX-EA50UH cameras, these days I'm using Sony a6400 cameras.

[@kevinscousin9871]

This is one of my favorite techniques of SRV but I wonder he came around this.

[@Texasbluesalley]

That’s a really great question. I guess you’d have to look through the catalogs of his influences and see if there’s a particular song where something resembling this was used.

[@carterc9171]

As for the guitar technique itself, I’m not so sure. But Texas Shuffle was a subgenre of country music in the 50s that utilized this rhythm and a walking line on guitar

[@jesusrendon5331]

Anthony great video, but I was wondering if you could do a lesson on tin pan alley but in the version of live at the at the steamboat from the in the beginning album. If could find the time thanks.

[@noahchasinguitar5831]

I didn’t realize how much goes into this lol

[@Chavee496tee]

The first thing you should do FIRST is play what you want to teach us first so we can hear what we're going to learn first!

[@CognitiveMindQuest]

if you don't know pride and joy you are not worthy to be here😂

[@Chavee496tee]

@@CognitiveMindQuest if you don't know the difference between "what you want to teach us" and a title of a song, you shouldn't have anything to do with music!

[@CognitiveMindQuest]

Chavee49 he is not teaching a song but a technique and if you are here it is assumed that you want to play a song with this technique inside so you already know the fingering I didn’t mean to nettle you man

[@Chavee496tee]

@@CognitiveMindQuest I never said he is teaching a song, YOU are the one who mentioned the song. As for the technique, of course any fool who knows anything about playing the guitar would know that from the title of this post. My point was, you wouldn't know what exactly he's going to teach you unless he plays it FIRST before going into the technic. I may not like his 'Texas Rhythm Shuffle' technique, since there are so many variations to the shuffle.

[@juicysuit7195]

Agreed. To not actually play the rhythm both before and after the breakdown of the technique is a bit maddening.

[@Lvwains]

Standard tuning?

[@briancraig1684]

Also is this a lesson from the rake video?

[@EricRennerYT]

Is that a gravity pick? Do you like it? I've been using the round edge of the green tortexes.

[@Texasbluesalley]

Yes. It definitely takes some getting used to, but the 1.5mm is what I’m currently using.

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

POV: you can play Death Metal, Power Metal, Black Metal, Heavy Metal, etc but still can’t do any Texas blues to save your life😂

[@aladdinsane3523]

I have vertigo.

[@middlebearlakelodge5490]

Harder to follow looking down on the guitar instead of straight at it...but maybe some prefer that.

[@jesusrendon5331]

If you could*

[@CarlWinter-oy8uf]

Thats is as far as I got after 70 hrs practise --- how the heck do you play the rest of those boogie notes with open UP strums & muted DOWN. strums /??------ 40 yrs of guitar playing has not helped at all with this awful nightmare !

[@kijbij]

Jaws?

[@HarryAzcrac20]

This camera angle is ridiculous