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20:18 Aren't you supposed to play major pentatonic over the tonic chord THEN switch to the minor for the other two? or is that B.S.?

Great lesson. By the way Im in the midst of your course Rhythm for lead guitar and wow has that helped with my timing and made learning songs like this so much easier.

I have this in my base but not used at that position. But it's in my head all the time. Dig it

It really is fantastic time to be a guitar player. Not only are there a lot of options for pedals in terms of how they impact your sound, but there is something in every budget range that gets you the sound you're after. For every expensive boutique pedal there is an inexpensive equivalent. Is there a difference in quality? Sometimes. But you don't need to spend lots to get in the ballpark of the tones your after.

I'm amazed how the Blues Driver and Rat gave your tone a very SRV type vibe. I never would thought that. I would have just tossed a TS in front of the amp, dialed it in to what sounded close to my ears and went with it.

SRV Strat

Am confused a bit …. And im still drinking morning coffee so this maybe why😜… youre saying the major section is box 2 ,which in my groggy morning opinion looks like box 1 of major pentatonic ,which would be box 2 “shape” if it was a minor pentatonic….or do i have this thinking confused?

This is such a useful resource for a beginner to the blues, really helping me to wrap my head around the principles and concepts! Cheers Griff. Matt

Like many here, I first heard this song by the Yardbirds. Never did I forsee meeting Hubert Sumlin many years later which was SO GREAT A MOMENT! It wasn't easy learning Blues or ANY music history in the time before RUclips, Google etc. Had to network older people, libraries,record nerds, develop sources like an investigator. 2:19 "4th fret second string" huh? did you perhaps mean 4th string second fret? or did I miss something?

Great lesson. A bit advanced for me but I definitely got the idea. I’ll keep practicing! Thank you!

2 huge concepts I got from your channel, Counting, Feeling all the sub divisions & where in the groove to start, ie not always on the 1beat👍 Rhythm, not easy to spell harder to master

Better than trying to recall the lick is knowing the notes it encompasses. Moveable and easy to create with. Excellent info! I'll never forget that. Thanks Groovy One!

Brilliant! Thanks. 👏👏👏👏

Great Video! It answered many question I’ve had. Among them, I couldn’t see where to mix in all your one and two bar licks. I’m looking at soloing with an acoustic guitar and singing. You took a 12 or 8 bar blues at random and played a groove like the basic blues shuffle for the first two bars of each line. Then added a fill for the next two bars. Then finished with a choice of turnarounds to end each time through. This is actually a breakthrough for me. I can take any song - play a groove for the 1st two bars of each line and sing. Then I can choose a fill for bars 3-4 and 7-8. Then finish with a turnaround. This is a really good foundation for further innovation and improvisation, while not slavishly copying and memorizing exact songs. Thanks.

Griff, I live in Allen and recently found your very functional videos. Hope to see you some time at an event. Cheers 🍻

I've seen Alvin 4 times...three times with Ten Years After and once with Ten Years Later. He always gave you your money's worth. Alvin equals...R&R - Blues.

Thanks, Griff. Very helpful.

at 2:15 you say resist the urge to hold them I take it you are referring to the first finger barring the 5th fret on E and B strings? Because the "mess" happens when you clearly take the 2nd and 3rd fingers off.

the music we grow up on was and is the best this electronic stuf sucks ..iv tryed to learn this several times it is trickey but i just keep comming back to it picking up a little more each time thank you for shairing your time with us it realy dose help keep me going guitar is not easy

Love this one. I’ve been working on it from another YT lesson but your explanation of timing is excellent. Thanks!

Really nice licks Griff. Thanks a lot. This is how to put it all together

Not only that, it sounds like the eight notes have a slight swing feel.

Starts at 5:22

It's amazing to me as a lifelong blues fan since the '60s, how the classic original Howlin' Wolf recording is still just as powerful and great as ever. It's almost 100 years since Wolf started singing and playing this with Charley Patton back in the 1930s down in the Delta, and 2026 will be the 70th anniversary of the classic Chess version recorded in January, 1956. We're all of us just feeble imitators of Howlin' Wolf, no matter if your name is Eric Clapton or anyone else. Wolf was on another level above everybody else,, except for Muddy and a few others.

You’re correct, Griff…Hubert Sumlin was the blues master guitarist on that tune!👍🏿

Great job for not being kind to your low E string!

Awesome...!

5:40

Great lesson on comping--thanks Griff!

Step 1: DON'T! Counting is for children. It's not a musical practice. It's not how music is performed.

Just saw her do this last night in Austin! Love the changes, thanks for this!!!

Thank you for this ,now that i know what and how to count with some detail i may actually try counting …very slowly 😬👍🏼🤘🏼✌️

Also I keep track of the down beats with a down stroke. Works with all subdivisions and if you have good picking fundamentals it falls in place. Love the video! People don't focus enough on these fundamentals. Thanks!

@Griff Ive played for 45 years and triplets have always been described to me by some great educators as "evenly-evenly-evenly" That put the important aspect of triplets to the for front it must be an equal spacing of a beat that is a derivitive of even spacing of 3 notes into a four note space. Also, don't you feel the most difficult triplet is the 1/4 note. Very difficult spacing 3 notes evenly across a 4 beat bar? For me the faster the triplet the easier it is to perform (tempo dependant) of course.

very cool

You go low and then tune up - that makes sense.

Hey Griff, what are the changes you're playing over? sounds great

I don’t use a pick, that makes it harder.. I’ll have to get used to using one I think.

Great lesson advice but as a 60+ perpetual beginner I've learned that multitasking whilst playing the guitar and having to talk with the wife doesn't get a favourable response🤣🤣

I used my Resonator in open G. Used my slide for the licks. Some strings were easy but had use my ear to find them.

Brilliant lesson - pitched with appropriate assumed knowledge. Great stuff.

Master class. this is superb. thank you very much for sharing.

lol he plays it like that cause he’s Billy F Gibbons 😀

Thanks again .great stuff

Nice style of playing but more than anything it showpieces the amazing talent and natural gift of the greatest guitarist that will ever live.

Viola player here that "noodles" on guitar. Great lesson sir, thank you! Subbed!

bro you look like Robin's ex from "How I Met your Mother" , the guy in a band .

Griff, this is one of the best videos of yours that I've seen lately. Maybe it's because, in my own "noodling" I've been focusing on using that G-shape along with other chords in the same area (causing me to use C-shape & E-shape chords), and mixing in some "fills" or melody. The bottom line is that I'd recently been figuring out how to relate the pentatonic shapes to the chords. So far, i haven't exactly related a full pentatonic shape to the C-shape, so i wish you'd included it. (I have still not memorizeed & practiced all 5 of the shapes!) But I've figured out the notes on the top 4-5 strings, anyway (for the C-shape chords). Anyway, thanks for all you do! Now i just gotta get practicing those chords & shapes, to commit them all to memory. I'm very close to playing like you were doing, been fooling with it for the past week. The timing part has ALWAYS come naturally to me (don't know why, cuz ima white boy, lol). Great stuff, it reinforces what I've been doing! P.S.: i understand EXACTLY what you were talking about at the end, were once you get the groove, and how the chords & notes relate, it's easy to play "like the original." I've done that with a few songs over the years. Just suddenly figured 'em out, note-for-note. Thanks! 👍 👌 🤪

This is a great lesson!

This was a good one.