So this was my pre BLIM soloing.
Never really practiced soloing, but the subject soloing came along somewhere in Justin’s course, so I think I tried it a bit at the time.
In any case, I think it was not that terrible… The backing track was provided by the BLIM class (along with many more)
Then, BLIM came and - hit hard! ![]()
It was a LOT of content and I had lots to learn and practice.
Before, I mostly used the acoustic guitar, loved folk music and mostly did fingerpicking. I never really felt like learning riffs and licks and to try soloing before.
So that was a big step.
Somewhere around the end of Unit two or during Unit three, life got in the way and I continued only on a lower gear, still practicing content from unit one and two, from then on only picking up what I rated really fun or really important for me, knowing I could always come back later and learn the rest.
The end nearing, I knew I wanted to record a looper session, because I didn’t get really good at soloing, being a generalist in guitar and life anyway I loved having learned bass lines (Justin called this bass 6), do some chords, for example like that “shuffle riff” (chunka chunka) and put some soloing on top.
While I find my way around the Am pentatonic scale better now after BLIM and suitable notes come much easier to me now (and I remember a few of Justin’s licks), this is not fully represented in the below video.
I came across a few technical problems capturing video and audio and putting it together afterwards (stupid me thought a smartphone audio would not be nice enough but I think I should have just gone with that), so in the end I lost patience and my performance could have definitely been better, but I wanted to finally create this post: ![]()
Back to Unit one!
When Unit one came in with all the videos, the Unit one book and even more material and we had to immerse in Delta Blues music, I was overwhelmed and had to write this song… Pretty much finished it in one day and posted it (only in the BLIM section of the forum) as if it was “a classic Delta Blues song you should know” (or not)…
“Talkin’ 'bout a hard start” by “All Thumbs Delta Dom”…
And maybe, two thirds or so in the course, I asked in my BLIM workgroup if anyone wanted to apply what we learned and put a Blues song together.
BLIM fellow Boris1565 said yes and we created this one - that was really fun to do:
So, even with me being not fully immersed due to life circumstances from half of the way on, it was an amazing experience and I want to thank Justin and his team for this great course and all the support!
And I’d like to thank my fellow co-BLIMmers for the inspiration and motivation they gave me, the help, chats, and the nice time together.
I can wholeheartedly recommend the BLIM class to anyone who can free enough time during those six months to really get the most of it.