The Muddy Waters solo is based upon 'I Feel Like Going Home' but he played that solo on countless other songs too! Huge thanks to all patrons, your TABS for this video are available here: bit.ly/339YoIJ BACKINGTRACK :bit.ly/2QR7Hui have fun practicing with this one! GP
Guitar Pilgrim - “You don’t need to be a virtuoso in order to be a great player”. My God is that ever true!! Simply pay attention to the feel & emotion that the nuances provide. Sterile shredding got old in the 90s after everyone learned to do it.
Worry, worry, worry is one of my favorite bb king songs iv been listening to it nonstop recently! The way he talks to the crowd about half way through is like a preacher, he had such control of a crowd and an amazing powerful voice. Any performer could learn things from listening to bb king. He could pack more emotion into 3 notes that almost anybody
I got the privilege of seeing the master himself, Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton performing on the stage at the same time. Muddy started the show, but returned later in the middle of Eric's session, they were just jamming. By the end of the evening Muddy left no doubt in everyone's mind what a great master he was. I will never forget that night. It was all simple innocent blues for the real music lovers who enjoyed the artists not a carnival show with lights like you see these days. The truly great moments in a musicians life.
I am not a guitar player but am a huge fan of guitar. You say so many good things while playing an amazing guitar that I am hooked on your channel. Blues. Play the note you need to play and leave that other noise out of the mix. It's like the sculptor that was asked how to sculpt an elephant out of a block of stone. It's easy. Just chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
I dig your lessons. I'm a fairly accomplished player but now i find my self relearning this stuff you're teaching that i forgot about long ago. It's refreshing.
You did a beautiful job of the BB King solo. That one is the best for me. I need to learn that and if I do I will be in guitar heaven. Patron here I come! Many thanks GP. You are a great player.
Not the first of your videos I've seen (too numerous to mention), but definitely one of the best. As someone who learned, with enormous effort, to play the 3 chords required for "Home, Home on the Range" back in 1964 and a lifelong blues lover, thank you. Comes a time you eventually realise you'll never be BB, or Clapton or Broonzy or SRV, but videos like this make me want to get out the Fender Strat that's been gathering dust in the garage for almost 20 years. Thanks.
All of the three guitarists are so recognisible. When I listen to BB King and Eric Clapton play together I can tell when Clapton and when BB King is playing solo without watching video.
Another great video, thanks! Great to get some folks recognizing that 'less is more' & that being a good soloist is NOT just defined by playing a million notes... but fewer notes, played with DyNamicS amongst the silences, although a different style, is still great playing. I love 'the 3 Kings'... so would have to vote for an extended study of all/any of them...
Playing fast notes are also the component of blues and that sound great too if you do it perfectly. You cannot say them meaningless. They are powerful and often enhances beautiful fingerpicking.
Love this! And your comment at the beginning “...playing 200 notes in 5 seconds. Which is ultimately quite meaningless”. Absolutely spot on! Personally, I’d rather hear 5 notes with feeling, than 500 without. The only exception to this, that I will make is Jimi Hendrix’s Red House.
Your playing is spot on and your analysis very sharp and informative…This is a terrific guitar channel! (And I happen to play classical guitar, although my early years were spent obsessing over all the great blues players and I still enjoy letting it rip from time to time….)
I like very much these guitarists, BB King because he's blues sound happy, I feel good vibes when I hear I'm playing, Eric Clapton because plays with subtlety, we know what is coming next... But Muddy Waters is my favorite, is an dark blues, aggressive, it cames from the earth, from hell... 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Your videos are so entertaining, I love watching them all. I don't even play guitar, but I love almost all types music, especially the blues. Your skills as a guitar player are obvious but your teaching and observational abilities are wonderful. I wish you great success sir.
Great video once again! Would like to see more blues videos, they cover such important and overencompassing concepts of guitar playing, that theres something in it for everyone.
When you started the BB King solo, I thought you were playing the intro to Fleetwood Mac's I need your love so bad. I guess BB King may have been an inspiration to Peter Green.
I love this guy it’s the phasing in his voice the passion in his approach to explaining everything thing so well,amazing guitar 🎸 play and it’s nothing to with him or his guitar playing but there’s also comedy there, in a big way, just wished he was Dutch it would be even better than tap,love u dude ur amazing ,but ur better than u know kick ass my friend
Giving away my age here but my girlfriend at the time and her brother and friends got tickets in the late 70s to see Muddy play at the Stanhope House in northern NJ with the hopes that the Stones would show up for Muddy's concert and jam since they too were in town (NYC). No Stones but it didn't matter.....M.W. was fantastic!! Jim C.
I just watched this video for the 100th + time. But this time I had my headphones on. And you've got your own background music going on. Really smooth BGM! 👍
I remember watching Muddy's concert with a certain Johnny Winter. I'd love to hear your take on John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Robert Cray and of course Robert Johnson. "Early this morning he knocked up on my door and i said Hello Satan - i believe it's time to go"
Sorry, I’m greedy. I would love to see you do a video on each of these great artists. You do a brilliant job, keep it up. Very inspirational and helpful to those of us still developing our blues chops.
Im french and i dont have a very good level in english but i understand everything and i wanna thank you, you give very good advices and you play so good 😄
I remember reading an interview with an old blues guy (cannot remember who) and he was talking about tuning guitars in the days before tuning aids were available. He said the guitarists would often tune their instruments to the piano, trouble was - the pianos were nearly always out of tune! Can I second those who requested a breakdown of T-Bone Walker (maybe adding a reference to Bobby Blue Bland’s guitarist Wayne Bennett).
I read Clapton’s autobiography and he tells how he would get the old 78’s of his black blues heroes and learn the tunes note-for-note, exactly like the record.
Slow and smooth........soulful and expressive......always impressed me more than speed and flash.....unless your bringing SRV into the picture.....as for the query.......I couldn't really pick one over the other two......gets to be like comparing apples to oranges for me.......gotta get my strat lookin like that again......she almost got torched in a house fire......but I saved her.
Muddy Waters, Rolling Stone Dave Gilmour, Comfortably Numb, Prince, Purple Rain Jimi Hendrix, All along the Watchtower Jimmy Page, Stairway to Heaven Eric Clapton, Crossroads Slash, Sweet Child of Mine Randy Rhodes, Crazy Train Allen Collins, Freebird Angus Young, Back in Black But for me nobody can compare to the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughn performing Texas Flood
Great selection of solos and brilliant approach to teaching them and the musical principles behind them. Would love to hear more about the theory (the chords, the target notes). Thanks for the quality content.
Heerlijk dit! Ik ga voor Clapton, any day of the week. Zijn werk op "the pros and cons of hitchiking" van Roger Waters vind ik weergaloos.. Groet, Peter
The Muddy Waters solo is based upon 'I Feel Like Going Home' but he played that solo on countless other songs too! Huge thanks to all patrons, your TABS for this video are available here: bit.ly/339YoIJ BACKINGTRACK :bit.ly/2QR7Hui have fun practicing with this one! GP
Great stuff yet again. Please could you give us a clue how to get that fender tone on a kemper If possible.. Thanks!
Mrpatflicker, I posted a message to you on patreon, check that one out!
All three solo's were great. I would prefer a more in depth Muddy Waters lesson thanks.😎👍🇦🇺
great playing!
Guitar Pilgrim - “You don’t need to be a virtuoso in order to be a great player”. My God is that ever true!! Simply pay attention to the feel & emotion that the nuances provide. Sterile shredding got old in the 90s after everyone learned to do it.
The moment I see Pilgrim with a blues video, I gotta focus all my attention on it! Always a pleasure to tune in!
pun intended?
Love the great insight you have of the greats playing styles. Thanks !
Gotta be the sweetest tone ever
You’re so right. Who needs 100 notes in an couple seconds. Blues is no music on the run 😊
Cool. People need to hear some Muddy Waters.
Amen to that brother
I can't agree more
Hand Clapton his Strat, give him a good ole blues beat, and he can play for decades without repeating a lick !!!! 😜👍💕💕💕
The way this man represents guitar wisdom is phenomenal and his teaching very easy to understand I always wait for your guitar lessons......
Worry, worry, worry is one of my favorite bb king songs iv been listening to it nonstop recently! The way he talks to the crowd about half way through is like a preacher, he had such control of a crowd and an amazing powerful voice. Any performer could learn things from listening to bb king. He could pack more emotion into 3 notes that almost anybody
Excellent Lessons !!! My Favourite Is Robin Trower From Winterland Concert in 1975 . Take Care.
I vote for BB King. His style is not easy to pick up or imitate. I'd love to see you break down his playing.
Guitar Pilgrim has made me a Pilgrim of your channel.
This is my Guitar Temple which I visit everyday to pay my respects by watching and learning.
I got the privilege of seeing the master himself, Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton performing on the stage at the same time. Muddy started the show, but returned later in the middle of Eric's session, they were just jamming. By the end of the evening Muddy left no doubt in everyone's mind what a great master he was. I will never forget that night. It was all simple innocent blues for the real music lovers who enjoyed the artists not a carnival show with lights like you see these days. The truly great moments in a musicians life.
That sounds like a brilliant night, I wish I'd could have been there!
Muddy Waters: an amazing, underrated guitar player that should be a must for any musician to listen to and learn from him.
underrated?
I am not a guitar player but am a huge fan of guitar. You say so many good things while playing an amazing guitar that I am hooked on your channel. Blues. Play the note you need to play and leave that other noise out of the mix.
It's like the sculptor that was asked how to sculpt an elephant out of a block of stone.
It's easy. Just chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.
ha, that's brilliant! thanks for that great comment brother!
Thats the greatness of blues.....with a few notes it says A LOT.
Clapton is God, Muddy the father and BB is the Holy Spirit..the way he could talk and sing with the guitar is to be reconed..awesome😍
Haha, well said brother!
I listen to Clapton music for so many years, I dont realy know the other to much but they also very great ...
i learn many guitar tone and playing ways from your explanation. i didn't recognize them before.
thank you so much~!
I dig your lessons. I'm a fairly accomplished player but now i find my self relearning this stuff you're teaching that i forgot about long ago. It's refreshing.
WHY IN HEAVEN SEND ARE YOU NOT PLAYING AND PRODUCING YOUR OWN MUSIC
YOU ARE UNBELIEVABLY INCREDIBLE
You did a beautiful job of the BB King solo. That one is the best for me. I need to learn that and if I do I will be in guitar heaven. Patron here I come! Many thanks GP. You are a great player.
Not the first of your videos I've seen (too numerous to mention), but definitely one of the best.
As someone who learned, with enormous effort, to play the 3 chords required for "Home, Home on the Range" back in 1964 and a lifelong blues lover, thank you.
Comes a time you eventually realise you'll never be BB, or Clapton or Broonzy or SRV, but videos like this make me want to get out the Fender Strat that's been gathering dust in the garage for almost 20 years.
Thanks.
All of the three guitarists are so recognisible. When I listen to BB King and Eric Clapton play together I can tell when Clapton and when BB King is playing solo without watching video.
Another great video, thanks! Great to get some folks recognizing that 'less is more' & that being a good soloist is NOT just defined by playing a million notes... but fewer notes, played with DyNamicS amongst the silences, although a different style, is still great playing. I love 'the 3 Kings'... so would have to vote for an extended study of all/any of them...
They sound so beautiful!
Great lesson, great explanations, great discussions, great playing. Thank you, Ray (Australia)
It helps to focus on the important things! Well done and thanx a lot!!! Kind regards, Henry
Playing fast notes are also the component of blues and that sound great too if you do it perfectly. You cannot say them meaningless. They are powerful and often enhances beautiful fingerpicking.
This is a awesome way to start a Sunday morning 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸 happy Sunday
they were all awesome! thank you. Muddy Waters!
The song of B.B. king solo is Worry, Worry, Worry if anybody was wondering.
Thanks for sharing this...I have been stuck in the pentatonic for a while and I really love the blues licks..slow ones especially. Love your videos 🎸🎸
You’re a great guitarist. I love your lessons ❤
It is so hard to pick among these three great guitarists. They have such distinctive styles. It ls like picking a favourite child. :)
Love this! And your comment at the beginning “...playing 200 notes in 5 seconds. Which is ultimately quite meaningless”. Absolutely spot on! Personally, I’d rather hear 5 notes with feeling, than 500 without. The only exception to this, that I will make is Jimi Hendrix’s Red House.
We want Buddy Guy , Albert King , Freddie King , Elmore James , Albert Collins , T-Bone Walker , Skip James ... solos
And Eric Clapton
Kenny Wayne shepherd
Freddie and the Ice Man did so much with tone and also the simple note.
@ytub yt Sure that's a good one.
Your playing is spot on and your analysis very sharp and informative…This is a terrific guitar channel! (And I happen to play classical guitar, although my early years were spent obsessing over all the great blues players and I still enjoy letting it rip from time to time….)
you are awesome.your tutorial is really fabulous.sir thanks a lot for the lesson.
3 of the best, anything by these 3 will get my attention.
I learn a lot about guitar and music with your videos, thanks!
I like very much these guitarists, BB King because he's blues sound happy, I feel good vibes when I hear I'm playing, Eric Clapton because plays with subtlety, we know what is coming next... But Muddy Waters is my favorite, is an dark blues, aggressive, it cames from the earth, from hell... 🤘🏼🤘🏼
I have to say, Muddy is my personal favorite too! that voice is just the best
Love all of your videos. Such a huge help in my playing. Keep coming with the blues greats. I can’t get enough.
Your videos are so entertaining, I love watching them all. I don't even play guitar, but I love almost all types music, especially the blues. Your skills as a guitar player are obvious but your teaching and observational abilities are wonderful. I wish you great success sir.
Thank you for sharing!!.... awesome video!!
Great video once again! Would like to see more blues videos, they cover such important and overencompassing concepts of guitar playing, that theres something in it for everyone.
When you started the BB King solo, I thought you were playing the intro to Fleetwood Mac's I need your love so bad. I guess BB King may have been an inspiration to Peter Green.
He was without a shadow of a doubt
Perhaps the opposite as well.
It's so true. it depends on the phrase, cuz all of them are notes but it depend on how you write it ❤️ I love blues #1 SRV #2 BB king
I love this guy it’s the phasing in his voice the passion in his approach to explaining everything thing so well,amazing guitar 🎸 play and it’s nothing to with him or his guitar playing but there’s also comedy there, in a big way, just wished he was Dutch it would be even better than tap,love u dude ur amazing ,but ur better than u know kick ass my friend
Giving away my age here but my girlfriend at the time and her brother and friends got tickets in the late 70s to see Muddy play at the Stanhope House in northern NJ with the hopes that the Stones would show up for Muddy's concert and jam since they too were in town (NYC). No Stones but it didn't matter.....M.W. was fantastic!! Jim C.
That's awesome!!!
I just watched this video for the 100th + time. But this time I had my headphones on. And you've got your own background music going on. Really smooth BGM! 👍
I remember watching Muddy's concert with a certain Johnny Winter. I'd love to hear your take on John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Albert Collins, Robert Cray and of course Robert Johnson. "Early this morning he knocked up on my door and i said Hello Satan - i believe it's time to go"
First time I see you awesome lesson. I am a beginner. Thank you.
Subscribed
The Pilgrim rocks. Always a worthwhile lesson. Many thanks.
Sorry, I’m greedy. I would love to see you do a video on each of these great artists. You do a brilliant job, keep it up. Very inspirational and helpful to those of us still developing our blues chops.
Im game for Lessons on all three
Your clips make blues transparent, I´m learning a lot from that. Always looked for sth like that! Thank you very, very much!
Alway love BB King. Thank you for this great video.......Sal : )
Awesome guitar tutorial clip.
Grande maestro, the BB king solo, just awesome, man👍😎
Once again brill vid, cheers. Would love more BB King & Muddy. Keep up the good work & thanks for all your lessons.
This guy's enthusiasm is infectious. Great player as well.
yeah loved them all but particularly your style of keeping the lesson simple [ not overloading ]......thanks
Love your channel! The world needs more blues guitar songs!
Amen to that
The great BB King! Start with this because you will always move from that and follow it Muddy waters and EC. Everything you do is real good keep it up
Im french and i dont have a very good level in english but i understand everything and i wanna thank you, you give very good advices and you play so good 😄
Your English is excellent!
hi
sorry for my english is not very good
Great video (as usual). My favourite, no doubt, is B.B.King's, but the other two are absolutely brilliant.
Beautiful ! Thanks a lot.
Great idea interesting interested in muddy and bb creations 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸💙
In America we celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims 400 years ago. I celebrate and give thanks for the Guitar Pilgrim!! Rock On Mate!
I love them all. Great solos, and great playing on your part too. Love your interpretation and analysis of the songs.
My vote is for BB King, so great licks.
And great videos too, thank you!
I remember reading an interview with an old blues guy (cannot remember who) and he was talking about tuning guitars in the days before tuning aids were available. He said the guitarists would often tune their instruments to the piano, trouble was - the pianos were nearly always out of tune! Can I second those who requested a breakdown of T-Bone Walker (maybe adding a reference to Bobby Blue Bland’s guitarist Wayne Bennett).
Perhaps if the entire band was tuned to the same out of tune piano, it would not sound as bad or noticeable as only one instrument out of tune.
I think you channel is absolutely brilliant!!! Very well done!!!
I read Clapton’s autobiography and he tells how he would get the old 78’s of his black blues heroes and learn the tunes note-for-note, exactly like the record.
I enjoy watching you play full of passion...
Dude, you're great and fresh at your approach and presentation of these licks/riffs and ideas.
Great channel and content, thank you.
Extremely insightful dude! I couldn't choose between any! Every video had loads of takeaway!
Very very excellent! Thank you
Slow and smooth........soulful and expressive......always impressed me more than speed and flash.....unless your bringing SRV into the picture.....as for the query.......I couldn't really pick one over the other two......gets to be like comparing apples to oranges for me.......gotta get my strat lookin like that again......she almost got torched in a house fire......but I saved her.
simply.... great ....excelent
You’re great! Thanks from Brasil 🇧🇷 🤘🏻
Your amazing! Thanks for the lesson 😊
I vote for both. Let's bring the Blues back.
The Clapton solo reminds me of Magic Sam too. Great stuff
Great Work, I´d love to see more Clapton Style Blues lessons
You have a good feel for song nuances, and are good at explaining it. Keep doing your thing!
Muddy Waters, Rolling Stone
Dave Gilmour, Comfortably Numb,
Prince, Purple Rain
Jimi Hendrix, All along the Watchtower
Jimmy Page, Stairway to Heaven
Eric Clapton, Crossroads
Slash, Sweet Child of Mine
Randy Rhodes, Crazy Train
Allen Collins, Freebird
Angus Young, Back in Black
But for me nobody can compare to the legendary Stevie Ray Vaughn performing Texas Flood
Your channel is great!! Excellent tone & presentation. Your exuberance is infectious brother. Thank you
All excellent and beautifully presented. I licked the Clapton Solo best.
Awesome job Thom, bring on Muddy Waters.
Muddy is also my personal favorite!
Like Peter Green... Man best Guitar player
Great selection of solos and brilliant approach to teaching them and the musical principles behind them. Would love to hear more about the theory (the chords, the target notes). Thanks for the quality content.
Also awesome is the backing track in the beginning !
Man...that's all 'Soulfull' solo that's play with feeling. That's why Blues is simple but very hard to play
Can’t stop watching, help!
Love it 🎸😎👍🎧🎼🔥💯🎸😎👍🎧🎼🔥💯
Heerlijk dit!
Ik ga voor Clapton, any day of the week.
Zijn werk op "the pros and cons of hitchiking" van Roger Waters vind ik weergaloos..
Groet,
Peter
Really appreciate these videos GP, has certainly made me think more about how the greats play. Thank you.🏅
Economy playing, choosing notes and chord fragments for a reason-I like your descriptions Pilgrim (which must make them correct)
Like it when the solo continues down the lower notes during the turn around, as in the BB King track, could you do a lesson on that technique ?
good suggestion, there is quite a lot to tell about turn arounds in blues
Thank u, Pilgrim! In my opinion you are the best RUclips guitar teacher!