This lesson is all about mastering the art of solo Blues guitar - a style that lets you create a full, rich sound all by yourself – no backing track or singing required. It’s like having a whole band at your fingertips!
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Thank you Teacher for making some Blues accessible/approachable/attainable for me (all the 3 options from Google translator work fine 
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You know the Blues is not my thing, but it’s super cool I will have a couple of Blues Arrangements in my Repertoire.
I think it’s very unlikely this will be a starting point for me to get deeper into the Blues and what it involves, like improvising for example (I’m a “Classical girl” after all 
), but…there’s a but…I checked the Primer Lesson and as you were playing I was following along with my eyes on the musicsheet on the screen and I thought: “I can learn this”. Then I re-watched and re-listened and I thought that learning the arrangement shouldn’t be difficult by applying my “nerd-like approch” *.
Now I hope I’m not being too bold…let’s see what I can do! 
I’m planning to start working on it in October. What matters is that it’s gonna be fun!
*my nerd-like approach being defined as my personal interpretation of all your precious teachings (well…only those I’ve been able to understand) plus the way I love my daily practice routine to be and how I live my guitar journey plus the general knowledge I’m building along the way, primarily from the direct experience on the instrument.
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It’s about time, Sylvia. See you on the otherside of the crossroad very soon.
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Yes ! Silvia is joining us in the blues wagon 
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Hahaha … yes yes you can wait for me
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Excellent primer as prep for the full thing - and really helpful idea to practice the individual bars for a few days before trying to put the whole thing together. I also found it helpful to practice pairs of bars (3,4 then 5,6 etc). I’ve been working on thumb-finger independence and this makes it lots of musical fun!
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Just to check my theory, the thumb primer is in E dorian? (E F# G A B C# D), so the second mode of D.
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Thanks Justin. This is great. Love the blues.
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I’m loving this blues adventure with Justin! I realized that playing the blues on the acoustic guitar is what I really like playing!
A very small “correction” on the tab transcript: the final turnaround, when Justin plays, he seems to go back to B before moving to G E, as in:
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[A] 2 0 2
[E] 3 0
Thanks!
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MatchMySound is pretty impressive. I used it several times while learning this and it is a fun challenge. There are some parts which will give negative feedback if your sound is not loud enough so if you are using an electric, make sure the volume is up enough.
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These Steady Thumb blues are great fun!..Thank you Justin and team. The MatchMySound I must admit I having some issues with as the consistency from either my PC or iPad to listen and record and provide feedback seems to vary, maybe its because I am not playing loud enough? A great tool and I am sure it will improve, it certainly helps you fine tune and practice to see if you can get the minimum level overall and to make sure your pitch and timing are good…Steady Thumb Primer complete, now for the Steady Thumb Blues.
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Hi I’m a little confused. Justin has mentioned that the piece “Steady Thumb Blues Primer” is in E however looking at the sheet music it has two sharps so looks like it is in D? Can you please help
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It is in E but the E minor pentatonic is the foundation for the lead fills and licks (with additional notes not in E minor pentatonic).
Good spot.
It looks like an accident in the tab editing. I’m not sure who created these tabs - they are the ones that are used in the MatchMySound pla along software too. They have set the incorrect key signature. Boom Bass with Licks shows the key of C. Both of the Steady Blues pieces show the key of D.
If you know how to read standard notation and use it then that will definitely confuse you. Just look at the TAB not the actual notes where some of the natural and accidentals will be incorrect.
I have alerted Laryne.
Thanks for your help with this
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I already liked the “Boom bass with licks” a lot, but just love the sound and rhythmic feel of this! 
Thank you alot for these lessons!
And while I used the Matchmysound quite a bit in the first lesson, I went back to and somehow prefer to work with Justin’s video. Maybe it’s just me… or depends on the piece.
PS. Funny thing - I started the lesson in the morning and got well along. Then, some time in the afternoon or rather evening, I sat down to play what I remembered from the lesson. It was quite different, but I liked so much what I played that I recorded it and want to make some song out of it 
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I found this quite difficult to start with, trying to separate the timing of the bass line from the solo notes was very frustrating, it reminds me of the classic patting your head and rubbing your stomach challenge. It’s very satisfying when it comes together, I’m having to do this really slowly now but I’m now getting the timing just about right. I’m now using this has part of my daily finger warmup.
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Anyone have trouble using this with in iPhone? Microphone is activated and registering on matchmtsound per sound bar but doesn’t giving tuning or playing feedback?
First I’d like to say, thank you Justin for this fun lesson! I’m only on Beginner Grade 2 Mod 10 but this sounded to fun not to try. It took me about 9 days but I can finally play this at speed! I’m planning on learning the Boom Bass with Licks next before the Steady Thumb Blues.
My question is, how exactly do I know when to move on? I’ve gotten my score to 95% but that final E9 is still hit or miss.
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