Great lesson as usual John, sometimes when i'm stuck I watch one of your video's and I get another fun building block to add to my musical vocabulary, so thank you!

Thanks so much for the comment and I'm glad I can help my friend!

Blues Guitar Institute It's helpful...I'm telling you it is! Thanks for showing us! 👍🤗

I finger pick, but have not gotten into patterns yet, but will be giving this one a try...thanks John !

anything you teach is helpful john!

Bryan, thanks for sharing that quote. It really lands with me and I think you can apply that to scale patterns, etc too. Easy to fall into predictable pathways with patterns. Thanks again and have a great day, Bryan!

Noted.

Well said and thanks for such an insightful comment. I agree patterns can be helpful when you're starting out. You just have to start breaking away from them just as they start to become automatic since as you pointed out, most tunes you'd want to learn are more than just one pattern. Thanks for pointing out that you can only really pinch or pluck. That's really the way I look at things. Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting the effort into this helpful comment. Cheers!

@@BluesGuitarInstitute No problem at all, it's great to have seen your channel grow so much, especially recently; I've been here a while. You deserve the praise, you are a great teacher and not everybody has that. I certainly don't, but never assuming and keeping it simple as possible for people is key I reckon. It must be a tough balancing act when varying levels of player watch your channel and it's one-vid-a-week but I think you hold it all down well and help convey that the blues are worth playing and that music (theory) is actually somewhat basic when you get the fundamentals down and just think a little about what you are playing/planning on playing. This is what I try and convey to beginners irl and in comments sections on channels like yours when they appear discouraged. Us guitar players have a tendency to play brainlessly in a way that say, pianists, don't and that is never conducive to good results. I wasted years like that and nobody likes thinking, because thinking is hard, lol. As you know, the rest of it is muscle-memory, and probably the harder part tbh; especially when you begin. It takes ages to get "buff" in the gym, but the hands and their strength betray no real outward signs like pecs or quads regarding how hard they work on the fretboard. Thus, it is so easy for beginners and intermediates to get discouraged when they don't get instant results in hand-strength and flexibility, and can't instantly play what you play even on on a vid like this. Anyway, your channel is great, and you do fantastic work in keeping the blues tradition alive. I'm always (morally) supportive of anybody doing that, and especially those who do it well. Sadly, I'm just a walking cliche in that I'm an impoverished English musician/dosser/chancer whose guitar playing has struggled to make me even the most basic of child maintenance payments. Those who are learning from you and can afford to should most certainly donate and help you out though. Your work is excellent. Cheers, John.

Glad it helped, Rhys. Play On! John

Heya David, it's thumb +3 for this one. That doesn't mean you have to, but this is a great pattern to build skills with the thumb+3 picking style.

Hey, this one is for members of BGI, if you're a member you can find it by looking for lesson id: tb265

Hey Jaron, sorry to trip you up but I'm happy to jump in here and help add some clarity. Unless I missed something, there aren't any hammer-ons or pull off in the pattern. I'm tend to call out note names versus fret numbers. To help with the chords, I'm playing these: A7 (x02223) and the long A (x02225), D7 (2x0212) and then E7 (022130). Hope that helps at least some but happy to chat more and if you think the tab would help, I'm happy to send that your way. Or recommend a few lessons that are foundational to getting this one down. Just email support at bluesguitarinstitute dot com. Thanks! John

@@BluesGuitarInstitute I would love the tabs. It would really help.

​@@BluesGuitarInstitute I enjoy learning the new "long A" and the D7 is familiar to me. But I thought the E7 should be 0201xx and the A7 would typically be x0202xx --- Is there something I'm missing.

@@jaronsmith2607 these are different voicings of those chords. you can play any chord in multiple ways all you need is the notes that make up that chord in any order and in any spot on the neck.

@@jaronsmith2607 cool, please email me and I'll send it over. Cheers!