Besides the riffage, take note of how he plays the E mixolydian scale up the whole fretboard using the next note in the scale as the position root. When learning scales this is key to really learning your whole fretboard and also gets modes in your head. Best lesson in here.

This guy's tabs taught me so much. Words cannot express my gratitude.

Andy's a great teacher and a great player. I have several of his style books and I always pick up something from his videos.

Perfect for me right now. Been really experimenting with droning and this'll level me right up. Thanks!

Andy Aledort is the coolest person I've seen on KZfaq.

Love your vids! Many thanks for putting the time in pulling those together

Something about blues that always spoke to me as a kid. The rawness, unpretentiousness, dirty, authentic....it really moved me inside. Even as a white son of an Irish immigrant in the US. What a wonderful gift the US Delta gave the world.

oh my god you gave me a whole new view of open tuning! Usually if i find a song where i got to retune I say ugh too much trouble! Now I will at every opportunity!

This is a great lesson . Thanks Andy.

Brilliant, thanks Andy you're a Legend dude

I was given one of your videos and was able to learn sweep picking, thanks to you.

I first got Andy's electric guitar dvd back in like 2006 when I bought a gutair world magizine. great to see he is still at it

i love the gritty look of that guitar... great lesson!

That is a gorgeous start

Andy, you’re the best.

This guy is really immensely talented!

Seriously man You’ve got the majic to ya !!!!❤

Awesome Lesson! Thanks so much! Why didn't I think of this??? Andy is a great teacher! I totally dug when he did the whole "Axis Bold As Love" DVD. He takes the the guess work(that we'd probably never guess) right out of it.

Awesome lesson and awesome sound

This site came up randomly in my youtube feed and I don't know how I never knew about you. This is one of the finest, little guitar lessons on the whole damned internet. I love droning strings - whether it's Robert Smith, Johnny Marr or something more blues-based like this - so I LOVE this lesson. Really incredible. THANK YOU! Subscribed!

Great lesson...very cool stuff. That strat sounds killer man.

Wayyyyy coolest lesson ever! Thanks man, keep on truckin'

I absolutely love this guy! If you need inspirational motivation, Andy will provide it, effortlessly. Extremely knowledgeable in all kinds of styles and genre's. Enjoy this fine teacher/player!

Your playing is really, really great!

Hey that was interesting. Thanks for the tips and keep them coming.

I just went to Memphis and got my mind blown by Kid Memphis at Blues Hall...that's some guitar!

Andy’s the REAL DEAL! Plus, I like his taste in Strats...that is one funky axe.

That is some serious guitar work.

All sounds great

Amazing. Thank you.

Gracias muy bueno como siempre

Man that guitar is awesome

Great lesson. Thank you.

Cool Andy I can definitely dig it!

F’ing awesome Crucial thanks!!

Gotta love this guy

Thanks Andy.

Unbelievable riff

That tone !!!

Very awesome!

Pearls. Thankyou.

At this point, I see an Andy Aledort video, I just click "like" immediately upon opening lol

WhY????? Why did it take me 40 years to find this??????? Thanks man

Very nice lesson!

Great player

Thanks good lesson.

Yeah I tried to read "Guitar World" for years (since the late 70's), and it might as well been written in Chinese. Thank God for the Internet.

These are great videos and Andy has always been great but it would be helpful to have tabs for the people who these lessons are targeted for.

Off the map!

When I think about that sound, I recall John Hammond who made it sound like at least two guitars.

That first lick reminds me of The Rover

Thats a beautiful Strat 😉

Page started the song "The Rover" out with a similar lick. Very cool swampy thing going on there.

Thank you !!!!!!!

Dream tone

Andy, great blues instruction as usual. Can you recommend any blues instruction books / DVD's etc. devoted to playing drone blues licks in the key of E? Cheers from New Zealand

That opening riff sounds like Led Zeppelin's "The Rover."

Wow! That Strat must be one made between Rory Gallagher's and Stevie Ray Vaughn's... The Stone Free inspired lick and a number of the rest sounded really cool. Thanks!

Thank you

Nice soul mate, plus your on the money

good stuff. Licks start about 3:45

In 2018 is when i said and prayed that im going to get this guitar down i played 3 cords for years quit for years but 2018 did not even know what these instructers where saying not i can jusl lue down sone times and i can understand whars going on in my mind where to place a note i guess i am learning the langage call music and thanks to Katts like this gentalmen and youtube you still have to be cautious what vedios you watch .but this Gentalman and these vedios i will watch and learn any day..RocknRollFlat5

That first example is basically the lick from "The Rover".

Figure 9 was lifted directly from "The Rover" on Led Zeppelins Physical Graffiti album

Very interesting.

Excellent….one of the keys I took from this was the “thematic development”. The other, which I feel really opened up the fretboard for me, well made it less confusing I guess, is the enharmonic relationship. If you are doing Blues in the Key of E, isn’t it great to know that E mixo is A Major or F#m…right away when you switch to the iv chord, now you can relate where you were and where you are…then when you go to B, well, you can outline B Major triads and also recognize that B Dorian is the same notes as E Mixolydian….to me, these are the key relationships in a blues format….in other words linking the A iv and B v to the E key center and its major modes through the enharmonics. It can get out of hand in a hurry for my handicapped brain 🤣

Read his stuff in the 80s and 90s and he's not what my mind's eye pictured.

I think a big part of why old bluesmen used open chord tunings is so many of their contemporaries would've been slide players.

nice tone

Just drooling over that guitar. Please tell us about it in a video.

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... Not to mention that a lot of those guys perhaps, did not know chords or have access to how to play them, in standard tuning, and so their style developed out of that. They called it, "Servastapool." Nice playing, Sir, and great sounds!

Rory would be proud of that Strat!

Is there a video by this guy or a good one by anyone about "attitude"-making simple things sound cool?

Andy should be a household name. Effortless.

A little respect for the Camera Man....nice...Andy is,a long island Blues Master.Can I have the Silver Jubliee plz ":)

Andy, what is that TONE? Beautiful. All amp or some pedal in there? Thank you - always immediately inspired by your licks.

Best get to practicing that hybrid picking...

lol. Does he change the oil in his car with that strat?

That nasty tone!

In my opinion, Andy is the best guitar Teacher around!!!!!

Strat sounds awesome!

Where i can find the tab for this lesson? i succeed to figure it out the riff at 3:46 but not the others riffs :(

Thanks! Resembles Rory Gallagher's Strat

You ve got great taste..most bluesy stuff is very predictable/boring. But you bend the cool notes exactly extreme enough, what does the trick. THANKS A LOT,this couple of pointers will keep me busy for months..A cool little addition to my musical vocabulary.Very inspiring indeed.Greetings from the netherlands🏝🍹🖐👽🛸

Thanks for the cool lesson! I love the Strat...wondering how old is it. The look is awesome!

What year is the strat

I'm a simple man. I see a strat like that i click

What is your amp and pedal combo etc? No one ever covers this.

I've been to London, seen seven wonders I know to trip is just to fall

just playing in F# minor, utilizing the myxolydian; correct?

4:01 this sounds like Led Zeppelins The Rover

skip to 2:30 for the actual lesson.

Hmmmmmm....i would do something like this by playing open E and hit on 7 fret a string and double stop on E n B stings...I'm going try and continue it with some of his choice of notes

Excellent lesson thank you!, but you have to level that horizontal guitar on the wall 😲

To those mentioning the "The Rover": Led Zepplin, repeatedly, hasn't give enough credit to the sources of their material. To cite them as the source of anything now is to risk cheating someone else (for example Jake Holmes in "Dazed and Confused"). Calling it "Delta Blues" is probably the best compromise that could be made to get around this problem. I'm impressed that Guitar World (and/or Aledort) approaches it this way, respectful of the culture that was the often uncreditted source of this music.

Man thats a pretty guitar

Earache? Earache my eye!

I have song books transcribed by Andy ...Hendrix .

That's 'the rover' isn't it?