I think you will be fine, it may be Immersion but reading how the course is planned to progress, I don’t think it will be in at the deep end. Your acoustic Blues melody lines, shows you can learn licks and motif and these can be transferred around the neck. Bends are about technique and timing but you should be more than capable of being consistent with practice. As its aimed at minimum Grade 3+ I think an understanding of the minor pent and major scale Pattern 1 will be a good starting point and open 7th but work on the barres as well. Guess we will know more when the prep work is assigned.
I think that after BIM, my next level will be to apply the new concepts to the Blues Lead Solos songbook. 18 solos to transcribe and work on with backing track.
That’s a projet that I would work at least a year for BIM consolidation. Then, continue with grade 4,5,6. And, continue the lead solo book.
And maybe in 3 years, move to advanced where Justin seems to show how to apply those skills to a new genre of music (jazz).
At that time, BIM may also have a follow-up course. Who knows ?
Yes, I got the Blues Lead Solos book. It looks really well done. It has a lot of details on the amp sound, the licks, the tabs, the transcribing and the techniques for each songs.
I did not start it yet because it does look a little bit intimidating at first. After BIM, I feel that I will have the confidence to start the project.
I’ve not completed G3 yet as I’ve just been incorporating lessons of it into my practice routine as I’ve been exploring further blues and fingerstyle. I have started to delve into the G4 lessons and have developed an enthusiasm for blues since learning to play with JG.
I’ve got a reasonable understanding of the minor/major pentatonic and major scale pattern 1 reasonably and covered some basic phrases including using in some call and response example pieces and shuffle pattern riffs. I definitely need to work on barres, bends and vibrato, I was just getting to that stage in learning.
I do enjoy the acoustic blues pieces. Just started yesterday learning slowly Baby Please Don’t Go. Figured it was time to try and learn an acoustic blues song.
You have both got me thinking now to just go for it and give it my all.
That does sound good. I would also add to record your own backing tracks using everything you learned and improvise over it using your expanded toolkit and knowledge.
Fanny/Justin can you confirm payment via PayPal will be available globally ? I have had some experience with US sites where they will not accept payments unless it is a US PayPal account. Not sure how this sit with JustinGuitar.com.
Just want to make sure I have a valid method of payment if I get that far !
ok just got the email about this, is it something I need to turn up on time for or do within a certain timeframe? I really have not paid attention to all this its been somewhat confusing
Justin will release 1 module per month for the next 6 months. You can watch the video anytime you want, you will have lifetime access to the course. There will be also be Zoom lesson once a month which will be recorded.
Hey Toby @TheMadman_tobyjenner just making sure you saw that registration is open. I know how much you wanted to sign up!
To everyone that signed up already, hope you all enjoy the course! Blues is not my focus so I won’t be joining, but I am oddly feeling a little bit of FOMO watching people sign up
Seeing the enthusiasm from so many forum folk I like and admire leaves me sad about my lack of interest in ‘the blues’ Sounds like it will be a super fun as well as rewarding experience. I hope you all have a blast and continue to share your blues journey here in the main community
I am slightly puzzled why the number of participants is limited
Even if there’s a once a month online zoom lesson, I presume that’ll be largely Justin adding additional material and answering questions sent in about the course as it proceeds?
An extra $500 for every participant would be a significant support for this great site and Justin’s living Mah baby left meeeee…
Nah… not yet
Yes PayPal will be available globally!
Sounds like it will be a super fun as well as rewarding experience. I hope you all have a blast and continue to share your blues journey here in the main community
