Creating simple guitar phrases with minimal notes, instead of playing up and down the scale! EP528 

This is a lesson that hardly anyone discusses on youtube. Good one.

A perfect example of less being more. Good job.

Brian I am so grateful for what you have taught me ; you sir have brought an enormous amount of joy into my life through your lessons. I hope you reap the rewards of the joy you have sown. Thank you 🙏 my friend ❤️🎸🎯

I notice you and other excellent players, have a landing note, hang on it with vibrato, then softly add a tag note of very short duration and slide out of it. this sounds so professional and it's something I need to start trying to do. Maybe everyone does it, I don't recall anyone talking about it. Thanks for the great lesson. I have learned so much from this channel.

My favorite online guitar teacher, your lessons do wonders

Brian, this is a terrific lesson. You so effectively demonstrated how to create a simple, but very tasteful lead that makes a lot of sense, and fits the underlying jam track perfectly. Obviously, a lot of your viewers and commenters feel the same way. I think you're on to something here.

Brian, your playing is so tasteful and classy. Only the notes that matter, with extremely thoughtful phrasing 🙌

BB KING made a career out of playing just like this, "Boring" to use your word. Of course there was more to BB's schtick than just how he fingered Lucille now and then and pretty much milked every bit he could from this elementary level of playing. However, in the right situation these sparse, but intentional notes can make a huge impact on a song when used properly. And leave it to you, Brian to come through with yet another gem of instruction for laying a strong foundation on which to build ones guitar skills and make it not boring! 👍

Love the less is more approach

OK, this is the video that changed my life. lol, i see these comments on the channel all the time, but this really opened my eyes. been playing since i was 16, jeez thats 26 years now. been trying to solo for YEARS, like a decade, but couldn't break out of the scale sound. this finally did it for me and somehow broke through the membrane holding me back. now i can listen to solos and hear what's going on. its like i can finally spread my wings and fly. what an amazing feeling. im like a lead guitarist now. i love soloing! so grateful this video came across my feed. thank you bro.

Terrific. I liked how this one was really focused without too many embellishments. The lesson was easy to follow and implement and the idea of the phrasing was very clear. Nice job!

Nice, very very Nice…! Just started playing again after many years off starting in 1968 with my first guitar. Progressed to electric and learned by ear. Played lead in several rock bands in the 1970’s and early 80’s. Now retired due to cancer and started to play again. The shredding they do today has never been my cup of tea. I must say I was Leah’s able to play lead and loved it. But I really love the slow, melodic leads such as this one your showing. Great stuff and now I’ve found my go-to channel, I can’t wait to sit and play. Thanks so much for sharing this…✌️

Thank you for this lesson. Looking forward to practicing after work! Cheers 🍻

Great lesson Brian. I instantly recognised the BB King note, and loved the way he would also play a couple of muted strings with the note. It gave it a percussive yet sweet sound.

This one is good! You're in form :-)

Insane how good of a teacher you are. Ive been looking for a video like this.

Spot On Brian! Awesome Review and Lesson. Thank you…

Brian, you know every day, you look a little more like Eric Clapton.

Another sweet and very valuable lesson on soloing! They just keep getting better! ♪💕

Those quick little tags at the end of a phrase like at 7:10 are very Knopfler-esque to me. He does that a lot.

Love this lesson. Knowing which notes and intervals to emphasize are key to a great blues solo. More please. Thanks

Very wonderful and also insightful. Thank you Brain

Sweet! Enjoyed this one, as someone who used to try to take as much time as I could when playing with others and in bands, I am learning to be frugal with my leads.

Great idea continuing on last week's theme.

Great lesson. Keep 'em coming!

All of your content is excellent, for me the last 5, including this one plus EP 519 have been especially enlightening. I would LOVE to see a video of you and your jam buddies playing what you feel. May or may not be some copyright issues I suppose. Loving what you do makes these lessons even better. Appreciate you!!

👋 hey Brian , you popped up on a feed and now I’m hooked !!👍🏻

🎼🎶 liking it !

Brilliant! Sounds so good, I'm going to practice it, thanks a lot!

Man that sounds good 🔥 I wanna try it now

Thanks Brian! Great lesson! It really simplifies things and gives us some general structure, yet the freedom to do our own thing using the proper notes and scales / positions! This combined with last weeks lesson has already made my solos feel more melodic and sounding more like music than going up and down scales 😀

Great stuff 👏

Very nice lesson keep up the great work

so good sound perfect lesson Brian thank you

tasteful yet simple

Excellent lesson.

So good!!! Thanks!

I would like to see a video describing this guitar [and all the other guitars that you use in your videos]... You have some great sounds as well as useful instruction.

Wonderful lesson

Love this lesson. Beautiful tone and simple but effective lead. I’m a paid subscriber and would be great if you explained your tone too. I mean which amp and or pedal settings you’re using. Thanks!

I LOVE THIS, Brian! I’ve been a longtime proponent of “less is more”. Mainly, it’s because I can’t play fast lol But honestly, I adore a tasteful, soulful guitar solo. My ear tends towards someone like Mike Landau (James Taylor) or Don Felder (Eagles) and others. Thanks for this great video!

Thank you, this is what I would prefer to work on and this is a great feeling progression (it does have the BB feel to it). Not enough attention is paid to the I - VI jump and I really like the sound of it. I never really thought about that being an easy way to mix ma j/min blues. I need to back to EP527 for sure.

Tasty stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome. Loved the sound. Can you tell about your pedal chain and how to achieve such a worm sound?

Hi Brian, great, simple lesson and mind-blowing to follow your teaching. Following on from you previous lessons, I have begun to experiment and used / alternated between the ‘Jerry Garcia” C# Aeolian scale at the tenth fret to respond to a scale run on the Em Pentatonic on the twelfth fret. It/I sounded great, I must say so myself. Thank you

Can you put together a how to for Chris Stapletons's version of Tennessee Whiskey??

Love this one. Great sound and tone aswell. What set up do you use for that type of tone?

Best teacher ever, I m wondering how is the lessons that paid lessons should be more practical i guess could you please give insights on the difference with the one on youtube ?

Beautiful,simple, and and a great lesson. Guitars sounds absolutely great. Thanks.

Nice shirt. I need something like that.

What is the guitar??? Great lesson°°

Brian, do you play live anywhere?

New guitar?

Nice , its Dire Straits style

First!

Any thing simpler for beginner beginners 😬😣

Tasty 😋

Clapton all the time