So let me just say this. This lesson is NOT about Stevie Licks, or necessarily his "style". It is about his TENACITY. This is how to get that non stop push and pull that I associate with SRV. His style and flow are sooooo unique to him and of course I can always try to make a video about that, but for now, this video is about TENACITY and content of notes. Enjoy!!!
Your a gift that keeps on giving. Bless you brother, I started when I was around 10 dabbled for 5 years took 3-4 years to try to be a better solo player but ultimately stopped playing, Now im older.. little wiser.. more patience in the soul 😅… I want to be an overall great player.. Hopefully I can achieve just this with your content. Cheers mate! 💚🙏🏻
Hey Ian just wanted to Shout Out for you to check out Forgotten Space. It’s a Dead cover band formed in Dallas by Kenny Withrow of the new bohemians Edie Brickell and The New Bohemians. Now Hunter plays the Jerry parts. Just wanted to share with you
Hey buddy, you're fricken awesome! I love you, friend. Your videos are extremely helpful, and you put out an insane amount of happiness and joy.. and inspiration, and passion. Which is beautiful. I love you friend. ROCK ON!!!! ❤
All of the caged lessons, all the pentatonic and triad lessons, they all lead to this video. This is the lightbulb I’ve been looking for for so long. Thank you so much Stitch I can’t wait to grab my guitar tonight.
Ya know man, as a listener of music, you've really unlocked an algorithm for how to listen to music too. Understanding the call and response within a single measure. I'm actually hearing your discovered method in other types of music, not just SRV. Thanks for that. I appreciate you sharing with the world. You should be proud! P.S. I've been a Vai-Satch shredder for 30 years, this has genuinely enlightened me.
Yes, same here with the Satch thing and I thought the same thing about this. And like @angrybuzzy said, it's another flavor. Also, very well delivered like all of these videos
Best way to break down a complicated sounding guitarist into its basic concept. Gonna use this for any students into blues and get ‘em on your Patreon. Thanks!
Genius, Genius, Genius!!!! I'm 56 and been playing since I was 12, self taught. Big noodler, but your teaching is actually making me a player. Thank you so much!!
At 67, I think I’m allowed to say “RIGHT ON!” Wesley. Also self taught (since 14), but with one year of piano in second grade, so I can read music a bit. Ian’s teaching style fits me like a locking tuner.
Yep, this is the one. As soon as you went into that first E7 lick you can hear SRV for sure. Great approach and great teaching method. I'll be trying this out for sure. Thanks for the lesson, very informative.
First video of yours I’ve seen thanks algorithm instant subscribe keep up the content it’s amazing. I’ve been playing for 15 years self taught and I can’t read music and don’t know theory but I love the blues and your vids have already taken me to a whole new level. I cannot thank you enough I’m eternally thankful. I’ve been watching your content and playing along for the past 4 hours now
This is a really good video/ point- the fact that it's much more into what his "psychology" or mind set is in the licks he created instead of just learning more licks is HUGE! I really like this approach- you're correct- it's really fun to play this way dividing the measures up and the end result sounds much more "Stevie" then when I just play chord tones- which sounds too "jazz" to me. I love introducing the measure with chord tones and wrapping up the measure with Pentatonic- whether it's root pentatonic or chord tone Pentatonic (like off the IV and V chords when each pass by) - so may lessons talk about using chord tones and ignoring scales- but they all sound like jazz players and I'm not into that- this sounds like SRV all day long! Love it! The Pentatonic "Blues-es" up the phrases but when you use the chord tones at the beginning of each measure you can hear the changes without any background backing track at all. Lovely.
Wish I'd had this channel to teach me about 45 years ago. Better late than never. For me personally, you are the best teacher on RU-vid. Also, wish I could afford to take your Patreon lessons, too.
@@viannarts I hope it didn't sound like I have given up or don't enjoy it. Enjoying life, being useful and learning new things are what's keeping me alive. As Dylan said... "If you ain't busy being born You're busy dying" Thanks for the thoughtful response.
This is cool, I think you're right that's what he does a lot, but I'm still trying to get my arpeggios down, just starting but I'll get this before the end of the month, all I do is practice all day lol
@@StichMethodGuitar I'm already on it. And hey if anyone is thinking about joining for lessons Stitch don't mess around, got tons of exercises for each lesson, thanks Stitch. Definitely worth it, I'm pumped, plan to be jamming by year end.
If this breakthrough excited you so much Ian. Imagine what all of us will experience once we master this technique. I'm figuring transformative at the very least. Thank you for this Great Gift just before the Holiday. You Rock.
Good Job ! Way to go STICH! The double stops always work and they are a big part of SRV'S sound. One of the greats. Maybe the GOAT. The chord tone thing is excellent. Keep up the good Work.
I've been a Stich subscriber, lurker, and liker for a year or so, but this just changed my world view of guitar playing after 50 years of fighting with these six strings all my life. Amazing! I can also envision using this approach with other modes and genres, as a path to more fluidity. Thank you Stich, it's brilliant and it's simple, the best of both.
Fantastic lightbulb moment dude I'm just now trying to get into the Blues and play with feeling..I can play thousands of metal songs from the 80s but there's a difference between monkey see monkey do and feeling it
A very good lesson. Full of explanations without looooooog solos by the instructor. I like your enthusiasm and holding back on your personal solo. Above all I was impressed with your vibrato Great work thanks.
I love your enthusiasm, you're joy when talking guitar. Isn't that an exciting feeling. You hear something farmiiar in your playing and figure out what it is and roll with it. We all start off without calluses and muscles we need to develop. Practice until we get that stuff. We learn chords and how to smoothly change from 1 to another. Other things just happen by accident or fall into place. I learned pinch harmonics by accident. 😂 Now I can play Billy Gibbon's (esque) lead stuff 😂 This is one of hundreds of channels but I think you're right up there with the more famous channels like Rick Beato. I'm subscribed and have been for a while now but I really felt compelled to compliment you on your teaching methods, and you're style of editing in the fretboard shots as a visual aid . Mostly though, you've got a humility about you that is endearing. All the best from Miami ✌️❤️🎶🙏
This was truly a eureka moment for me as well...! Realizing that you can use the core tones to guide the solo and to give it direction and then you use the pentatonic scales to create the flavor and the accents. This methodology does create a very structured way to solo but yet it sounds like it flows melodically because it's following the core tones and the overall structure of the blues song !! It creates a very balanced approach where you give the ear the structure it wants but yet you can also use the pentatonic scale's to give the ear the variety and flavor it desires!!! What a true lightbulb moment man... Thank you so much for sharing this !!!! And I believe you're right, this is the trick that Stevie Ray Vaughan used and played around with to create his signature sound!!!
Every comment I make in your videos start the same way . I wish I had found this channel sooner or more to the point I wish I had learned this stuff when I was just starting. Kind of a weird coincidence is this morning I was down in my jam room looping a 12 bar blues in E and really trying to work out a cohesive direction to soloing over it. I took a break and low and behold I see this. Such a fantastic concept and one that as you said really only requires a change in thought process. I unfortunately don’t have the disposable income to subscribe to you patreon at the moment so I thank you with much gratitude for posting these videos. I took a decade long break from playing because despite being able to play songs and keep up with bands there was this brick wall I hit where I just wasn’t getting any better and wasn’t stringing concepts together. Today my mind is blown and I will be watching your lessons from the beginner content up through the advanced. Thank you again.
Haha, this was awesome and I think get it, especially when you describe it as swimming. I think of how a dolphin powers itself underwater with a few strokes from its tail, then uses that energy to power itself into a jump above the waves, then dives right back in and keeps that momentum going ready to jump again. Or like riding a roller coaster...the 1&2 chord tone setup is the car going uphill and building energy and the 3&4 is the downhill run, releasing all of that energy. This video was really mind expanding.
As someone who takes ideas and runs with them, you could change this exercise a LOT. E7 pent pent E7. Or E7 pent E7 pent or pent E7 pent E7, or pent pent E7 E7, etc. Playing with which method builds and releases tension would also be interesting. This is a cool formula. Thank you for the inspiration!
Thank you Ian. Great inspiration. Play with Chord tones half the measure then switch to Pentatonic. Need to find when and the connecting notes. Thanks Chief. Cheers from Indonesia.
YEEESS THANK YOU FOR YOUR STRONG RETURN WAS WANDERING WHAT HAD HAPPENED, HAVENT HAD THE NOTIFACTION BELL GO OFF IN A WHILE. I GOT HYPED UP WHEN I SAW 'IN THE MINID OF STEVIE RAY'...LOVE IT
Mate, when RU-vid suggested this video, I thought, "Here we go again"... But it seems you have actually identified what he was doing & how he was achieving the feel he got & by 6:30 into the video, you had not only blown my mind but converted a cynic into a subscriber... Kudos sir! (Of course, it does help that if your beard was longer & greyer, we could pass as brothers but that's beside the point...) I look forward to exploring your videos. Cheers & merry Xmas!
STICHMETHOD GUITAR< can you do a lesson on clapton Cream Era because he uses those Dom7 arpeggios playing the 1-3-b7 with a wide 4 step bend makes the 1-3-b7 sounds scary and eerie. Try listening to a lot of the Cream live albums to hear the dom7 licks
Stitch you consistently put out the most useful and relevant videos that truly "fill in the gap" for intermediate/advanced players that may not know what/how/why to practice. Thanks for what you do and Happy Holidays to all around. Can't wait to check out the Patreon which I've put off a bit too long and dig deep!
nice... i get the point about the constant push feel.........i like it when he breathes a bit too, as in dirty pool maybe.... check this out .... in a piano lesson from the homespun tapes guys the instructor points out the jerry lee louis was doing the swinging eighth note thing but omitting the final eighth note in each measure, which creates that push feel. thought it analogous to your point in a way... cheers to you love your stuff...will tune in more!
No lie man, watching your lessons and listening to you has single handedly changed the way I play the guitar and made me so much more proficient. You're an awesome teacher
I’m so excited to give this a try. I am a huge SRV fan and yes been always hard to really nail his style other than just copying the Licks note for note. I’m excited to see how this turns out, thank you in advance!
Very cool, very cool! By mixing it in the way you just did, how could you not sound that way! Awesome Stich, since I started I seem to get directed too where and what a I need to learn! Thank you Stich!
