These 5 minute segments are great. Gives you enough to delve into the licks while also pushing you to pull finger and out get into it. Well done and great playing too!
When I saw the video title I thought yeah right Bonamassa in 5 mins, but was pleasantly surprised! Excellent lesson, have been trying to get out of the same old A minor pentatonic box for a while. This really helped :)
Great lesson and great playing. The only thing is I'm pretty sure Bonamassa picks his 5's with economy picking. It's alternate on the first two strings and the eco on the final note and the beginning of the next five. So it's down-up-down-up-down-down. This is something I attributed to Zakk Wylde but it's actually a Shawn Lane technique and it's the way Eric Johnson picks his 5's, as well. Joe also uses economy picking for a lot of of his two string grouped, fast pentatonic phrases.
Dan, This is a really, really great lesson- thanks very much. Like some other comments noted, a lot of material packed into a very short period of time. Just a suggestion, but have you considered actually writing out the notes of this passage? The theory bit with shifts from minor and major pentatonics and the blues scale would be easier to follow.
You realize, of course, that Joe Bonamassa's playing style is much more intricate than the literal notes he plays...? Don't watch this video, just listen to the man himself. Much more inspirational.
+Danny Adams easy answer, all you have to do is play your guitar without any strings and just pretends you're there. go ahead try it now and post a video for us.
thanks for trying to prevent this lesson but unless that camera gets closer to the fretboard where we can really see what your fingers are doing you can talk all day long but it's not going to profit some of us, , some of us need to see those fingers note-for-note very close up so please put your camera on the fretboard more closer up so we could see exactly what you're fretting , it's better for us to see what you're doing instead of being told what you're doing
I was staring at his playing, marvelling at the weird blemishes on his fingers, until I realized those were just his knuckles and fingernails... Clearly not the smooth tentacles my mind was apparently expecting.
Joe bonamassa doesn't alternate pick to be as fast as he is, he uses hammer ons and pull offs and if you ask him he'll tell you. This guy says he's the most technical player he's ever seen. What's this guy like 19 yrs old.??? Everybody wants to play like Joe. That's all good but you ain't gonna do it by watching you tube. It takes mucho dedication and practice. Watch Joe play if you want to play like Joe and play about 8 hours a day. I'm not saying this kid isn't good but he's not good enough to teach you how to play like Joe bonamassa. Maybe in about 5 or 10 years. Joe bonamassa was born with a guitar in his hands. He was playing with B.B. King when he was 12 years old. Many hours of playing. My point is ,economy picking, hammer ons, and pull offs is one of the best ways to learn how to play this stuff combined with alternate picking but this guy doesn't say anything about hammer ons and pull offs or economy picking.
just pretty much metal speed with guitar pentatonic scales AK Joe Bonamassa too much speed sometimes not always good that's why I really can't give it to him too much
Hey everyone! Many thanks for all the nice comments for this video series :) If you want to see more lessons from Dan then head on over to ru-vid.com where Dan does all of his teaching! Thanks :)
The best way to learn is to come up with your own riffs and then just practice them. It's not hard to do, just come up with a pattern and practice practice practice. Then you too can play amazing lead breaks in shit songs.
That's very true, Eric Clapton learned Blues riffs, but later on just played his own, based on them. If you play what is YOU then it's unique and hey! it's easier to learn!!
Thanks for sharing this. I would like to see the notation too so I can just read it with the tab--a lot faster for those of us who read music. Just a thought. Good job anyways.
One minute lesson on how to play like Joe Bonamassa: Play as many blues notes as you can and be careful not to leave any spaces in between them. Sorry, only kidding, well partly. I have a lot of Joe's stuff and I like him, but I do wish he'd stop being so Gary Moore-y and instead emulate his idols like Jeff Beck and Peter Green who truly know that music is about the notes and the spaces between.
Joe has a very large background with knowledge not just from all the previous guys, he spent time with the amazing Danny Gatton. Too bad Gatton never saw him where he is today. I'm sure he'd be smiling. Too bad the Humbler got them bad breaks.
Hey man, the picking hand you said alternate picking when you actually used 2 down strokes when you play it fast? Otherwise a good video...it would be an up stroke if it were alternate picking? in the group of 5's.... it has to be 2 downs....economy that's the way you play it fast...Agreed?
I left that same comment. Joe Bonamassa uses Eric Johnson's technique for picking his groups of 5. Joe says he 'stole' it from Eric. It's down-up-down-up on the first two strings (alt) then down-down (eco) on the last note and the beginning of the new group. He also uses economy on his fast two string groupings.
I think that if you had added and mentioned what chords in the background work with the riff and explained the usage of major notes, this lesson would have been a hundred times more valuable.
