Learn to play Before You Accuse Me by Eric Clapton on JustinGuitar!
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Best online lessons available, period. I’ve played as a hobby for decades but got more serious about it when I retired a year ago. I brushed through a number of beginner lessons, but watched them all. I would suggest experienced players do the same because I’ve picked up some valuable tips from lessons you might feel are below your abilities. Keep up the good work Justin.
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good lesson
fun lesson. The app has an error on end to the poregession, staying on e7 instead of changing to b7.
After learning the solo in the level 2 blues lesson, I wish this had Guitar Pro file to go with it. Makes it so much easier!
The tab that’s given, does it relate much to the lesson? It doesn’t seem to be the same version. Is it the full licks and Clapton fills rather than Justin’s simplified intro on the video?
I am a little confused. Justin does the Blues Shuffle in A for the lesson, and here he is doing the shuffle in E. How do you know it’s in A or E when the shuffle involves just the two strings at a time? Hope my querstion makes sense.
hi @jujumu
If you run thru the free part of the music theory lessons, you’ll get the answer (i think. 
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Justing is doing a traditional 1,4,5 blues in E, so that means he is starting with E, then going to A, then to B. Check out the 12 bar blues lesson for the progression details: https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/12-bar-blues-progressions-bg-1303
The shuffle is the E “chunka” which is E plus B or C# , then A plus E or F#. The last transition is into B7. That forms the 1,4,5 progression (E,A,B) and therefore we know it is in E.
hope that helps.
Any reason why this can’t be played with 7th chords (E7, A7 & B7) as Justin shows in https://www.justinguitar.com/guitar-lessons/12-bar-blues-progressions-bg-1303#discussion
Sure, you could play it that way. But the chunka-chunka rhythm is what is heard on the original recording.
OK, but what fingering do you use for E7, A7 & B7?
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I’ve had a look at that thanks and that is exactly how I play it. Well apart from the singing that is as I don’t!
So that’s the chunka chunka rhythm. Was getting this confused with the shuffle rhythm.
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Crikey James I’m surprised you pulled that out of the memory bank!!
@Stuartw you ask about the fingering above, that all good for you?
The tab is to the electric version while the lesson is teaching the acoustic version. Is there a way to fix this?
I chose to learn this as one of the recommended songs in Grade 2 that goes along with the chunka chunka rhythm lesson. However, the lesson seems to introduce quite a lot more than just chunka chunka which seems a bit challenging as a grade 2 student. Most notably I’m talking about using the thumb to play the bass notes while upstrumming with other fingers. Does Justin intend grade 2 students to be able to master that at this stage or does he just expect us to learn the basic chunka chunka rhythm ?
The finger and thumb strumming is very challenging.
I can manage the chunka chunka with a pick ok but when I strum it with the thumb it sounds very quite, soft and underwhelming.
I struggled with this one too - in grade 3. I haven’t come back to it yet, but it is on my short list to add in once I get a couple others cleaner.
I think Justin has this one here as one to learn the basic song and structure for the chunka and then add the tricky stuff as we progress. Kinda like some of the beginner live club lessons from @LeeMB where he starts basic and adds in the more technical stuff slowly.
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just play it with a pick 
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I used Justin’s lesson on Smokestack Lightning to get my head around this. It is a vamp, and you just play the riff over and over, so easy to get the feel. Once that happened, my speed and consistency grew very fast. I was also able to tackle other tunes with a constant thumb drone with far more ease.
https://www.justinguitar.com/songs/hubert-sumlin-smokestack-lightning-chords-tabs-guitar-lesson-bs-521
Like many of Justin’s tutorials, this one has a basic version (Grade 2) and a more advanced version (probably Grade 4 or 5). The basic version is just strumming though the chords and is demonstrated in the playthrough at 4:35. Justin plays it with the thumb, but it’s perfectly fine to play it with a pick. You won’t be needing the other fingers free to play licks and so forth.
If you watch closely (around 5:30 of the video) you’ll see Justin digging in pretty hard with the thumb. You need to do that to get a decent sound with the thumb. Or use a thumb pick. Justin mentions that Clapton uses a thumbpick for this song.
But again, if your goal is to learn the chunka-chunka rhythm, playing with a pick is fine.
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