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STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN INSPIRED LESSON SERIES
Learn the techniques, devices, style, and concepts of one of the greatest blues-rock guitarists of all time
A comprehensive deep dive study into the aggressive lead playing, rhythm playing, clean playing, and gear/tone of SRV.
This course consists of over 2.5 hours of step by step video lessons teaching the Stevie Ray Vaughan style of lead and rhythm guitar. You also get ten killer sounding bluesy Jam Tracks, and a 41-page scale diagram and soloing strategies eBook.
SRV's unique brand of Texas blues coupled with his fiery style is a must learn for any guitarist and this course will guide you through it all. We will study his aggressive lead playing, his rhythm playing, his clean style guitar, and his gear and tone. We will get you in the wheelhouse of his sounds using basic gear that you probably have at home.
We will also study his favorite scale choices, tons of licks in the style, and we will take you through the techniques, devices and concepts that went into his playing. We'll teach you how to bring all these elements together alongside a variety of blues backing tracks so you can practice these techniques, devices, and concepts in a musical context.
With his aggressive style and accomplished playing SRV ignited the blues revival of the ’80s and is often considered one of the greatest blues rock guitarists of all time. His music was rooted in blues, rock, and jazz and he developed a uniquely eclectic and fiery aggressive style that sounded like no other.
Stevie Ray Vaughan synthesized his unique style from many of his influences - Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, B.B. King, Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, Lonnie Mack, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Guitar Slim, Chuck Berry. He was also influenced by jazz guitarists Django Reinhardt, Wes Montgomery, and Kenny Burrell.
However, he conveyed their messages in his own unique way. He bent strings in a way where no one has gone before and he infused ferocity into the blues, which was uniquely him. All coupled with his fantastic rhythm playing, awesome vocal chops, and tremendously killer songs.
Throughout his career he revived blues-rock music and paved the way for many other artists. His tragic death in 1990 at age 35 cut short a brilliant career just as he was on the brink of superstardom. His work continues to influence many artists across multiple musical genres.
And throughout this course we make playing along easy as we tab out all licks with our on-screen tablature. Plus close up shots of the pick and fret hand takes you right in close to all the action. And we demonstrate the licks at slow and regular speed so its easy to learn and follow along.
Throughout this course you will learn:
- Tons of aggressive blues licks in this style.
- Killer sounding octave licks and octave devices.
- Cool bluesy rhythm riffs and licks in this style.
- Classic sounding clean bluesy licks in this style.
- How to incorporate rhythm into your lead playing.
- How to create rhythmic variations on a theme.
- To add tremolo picking to create killer rhythmic sounds.
- Cool jazzy sounding chords in the SRV clean tone style.
- A boatload of bread and butter licks of blues-rock guitar.
- Bluesy ascending licks that use hammer-ons in this style.
- How to add different “tag” endings to expand your lick vocabulary.
- To incorporate trills, bends, pull-offs, dynamics, and percussive muting.
- To incorporate the wah pedal into licks for cool SRV/Hendrix sounds.
- To incorporate devices like string bending, double stops, and chromatics.
- The famous “Thumb over the Top” of the neck technique and why you need it.
- The importance of targeting notes and note resolution while creating bluesy licks.
- All about the aggressive lead playing, rhythm playing, clean playing, and gear/tone of SRV.
- Flat to major 3rd bends, string raking, outside notes, slides, chromatic notes, and double stops.
- To make licks sing using double bending, string rakes, two-string bends, and percussive attacks.
- To incorporate big bends, double-stops, vibrato, rakes, slides, and more in this bluesy aggressive style.
- The gear - guitars, pickups, string gauge, picks, tuning, amps, amp settings, effect pedals, and pedal settings.
- Tons of licks using hammer-ons, pull-offs, double stops, double stop hammer-ons, two string bends, and passing tones.
- AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE!
Questions? Email us at TheNextLevelGuitar@yahoo.com
