Brian consistently writes music weekly that amazes me, Active Melody members get PDFs, on screen tab videos and everything else a person can learn to become a guitarist and explains it. Excellent teacher at a very good price. You want to learn. Stick around

Can’t get enough of these solo blues pieces.

I’m here for these explanations that come along with a song. Thank you so much please don’t change a thing despite the minority that complains about it

I love these “So you play guitar? Play something for us,” songs! Another “must learn” for me! Thanks Brian!

Garth Brooks. Friends in Low Places.

I have been waiting for a teacher that spoke my musical language. hope to have membership money soon, but you play all the elements of everything I love about Jerry Garcia. his bluegrass blues and country sensibilities. great stuff.

I get a kick out of it when you say things like "hopefully a light just went on for someone out there" - that light is usually coming on for me and things are starting to make more sense. Great teaching. Thanks

Love these stand alone, acoustic compositions. Thanks Brian!

There are all kinds of blues nuggets in this.

These play-by-yourself lessons are my favorite.

Thanks Brian, absolutely love the Blues by yourself lessons. Watched it through to get my head around it. Now over to the premium site to learn it today. I really appreciate how easily you explain the theory and connectedness. Makes so much difference. Thanks as always 🙏👍

Best blues lesson vdo i've ever seen. 💚🎸🙌

I’m liking the way you are explaining things, understanding the theory in a simple practical way

Really enjoy your teaching style, especially how you smoothly integrate intermediate level harmony and melody theory, as it applies to the structure and context of the tune👍. This old Mississippi blues style lesson really hooked me.

Love these Acoustic Blues Play it by yourself stuff! And this one will be a fine example. Great for playing around, and astonishing your friends, (as well as yourself). Can't wait to get at that last Run you did near the end of the lesson. Tastey!

This is just so much fun, thanks so much for posting this. I love learning new guitar pieces that interchange rhythm/chords with lead licks, and this had some real gems in both the licks and the chord tricks (that B7 for example). Love it

As always, I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for very clear explanations of what you’re doing and more importantly..why. Super helpful! Thanks man!

Just learned EP 336. This is the right one to follow up. I love these kind of lessons!

Awesome stuff again. Another one in my liked videos. Its over one hundred now. My playing has improved massively since joining active melody. Thanks very much.

Your the perfect teacher for “failure to launch” guitar player like me. Learned the pentatonic major and minor scales with the blues note, some triads (E,A&D), hybrid picking and still can’t bring it all together. Your videos are making a difference. Thanks!

Everything is coming together love it thanks

Thank you! Nice little blues to impovise with and I picked up a couple of licks.

love your use of gospel changes; they are great! and your musical explanation (secondary 5ths)

My god ! I'll need a full week to process all the tricks explained here. Thank you so much. Bart the Belgian

Man,that J45 sounded incredible…great tone and so clear

Excellent lesson as always, especially the song intro breakdown! ✨💕

Brian showing up every time with the coolest guitar anyone's ever seen and then playing/showing the tastiest licks with cool timing 😗🤌

Love this

I like your teachings

Enjoyed this blues lesson

Another good job Brian.

I love this, thanks Brian. Always amazes me how you play stuff with a flatpick I can only get close to using finger picking, sound wise (dynamics, clarity). Will be diving into it with a pick - Mark

Mind reader. I was just wanting more lessons like 336. Thanks.

That was nice. Thanks Brian.

Great lesson!

Cool...very cool indeed

Really useful session, thank you.

Great lesson. Friends in low places.😎

great lesson

Great; looking forward to part 2; comments to follow . . . .

awesome insight on the blues:)

Amazing

I like your idea with creating a tension intro ☺️.

Thanks ❤

The first three chord progression reminds me of The Beatles' Till There Was You

Excellent video

Brian, as always great lesson. I'm picking up so much. I love these play by yourself lessons, but really, i get something out of all your videos.

I been listening/watching you for about 3 years now, and in those 3 learned more from you then the previous 20 (plateaued) years prior. But probably most importantly, is instead of memorizing entire scales from the high E to low E, learn to memorize the scales around their respective major and minor chords. If you can do this, it really does make everything else like nuance and dynamics fall into place much faster. Anyway, i just wanna say that over the years you have made the guitar feel less like homework, and more of something I want to do and am extremely passionate about. Everyday I can’t wait to pick it up. So thank you for that 🫶

Really enjoy these standalone/solo pieces. I also appreciate the advice 'don't get too mathematical about it...' regarding timing - just make sure you hit the crucial note at the right point. Often I will try and get my playing identical to yours (as a challenge as much as anything), but I think it's just as important to be able to loosen up and apply the 'feel' to improvised pieces of my own.

Brilliant. Diolch.

Nice.

Noce sounding guitar good pickin

Quanta musica. Molto bene

Louis Armstrong: "What a Wonderful World".

Sweet J45

I dream of the day I can just sit and make up music and it sounds good. I can memorize the stuff on utube but I want the music to just be created on the fly. At 67 years old, I doubt I’ll ever get there.

Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places?

Great sound really enjoyed it. I am wondering what the basic structure is. If I am counting correctly I hear 20 measures. So it's not an eight bar blues or a 12 bar blues or 16 bar jazz piece?

The song you mention at 5:57, is that Friends in low places by Garth Brooks? I've tried so long to find that second chord!

So Cool man...How many years you practice Guitar?

❤

Yet another excellent work of Mr. Brian. Great composition. Thank you ! Other way around, I have long time unsolved mistery linked to EP288 viz: what amplifier did you use for that record ? Thank you in advance.

Thanks for another great lesson. May I ask what gauge strings you use to do all these bends? I’m using Martin flexible core lights

Inkspots "If I didn't Care" from Shawshank Redemption.

I'm sure you have friends there as well;)

Great piece. Nice to switch it up to the acoustic once in a while. Pretty easy to learn and play so far. We’ll see how the second half goes…Nice haircut😂

Fun

Thank you for my next exercise. What is that microphone you are recording with?

Sounds like, Friends in low places.

Blame it all on my roots.....🎶

Hi Brian, that's what we do, just steal it! Wow, is that the way it is in Nashville?

Garth Brooks song.

I’ve got friends in Low Places

I'm getting Whispering Grass, the Ink Spots??

I have Friends in Low Places ;-)

in LOW-OW-OWWWWW places

Garth Brooks

"Blame it all on my roots........"

Friends in low places

Friends in Low Places

Garth Brooks???

Come fare diventare facile quello che sembra difficile.

I showed up in boots…….

Holy Crap, You challenged us to name the song that has that same Introduction. It is on the tip of mine tongue, but i just can't bring it out. What is that?! I know it, ughh.

Спасибл из россии!

I don't have the people skills for this. 8 1/2 minutes in and I'm waiting for something I can use. It's like escaping from Shawshank.

Great lesson!

Nice.

Friends in low places

Friends in Low Places