In every, and I mean EVERY video I've seen of Robben Ford he comes across as just the nicest guy in the world. Kudos to his parents for raising such a great kid/man.

This is all before you can KZfaq search your favourite guitarist…. This must have been gold at the time and still is! Awesome lesson from one of the greats.

This is GOLD, thank you for uploading! 😉 (Bending 20:19) (Licks 25:19) (Slow-Mo 12 Bar Blues Key of C 33:10) (Rhythm 48:25) (Jam 53:46) That guitar is beautiful ! 39:53

I saw a True fire video of Robben explaining jazz blues many years ago, and loved his playing his way of teaching ever since.

I can't think of any other artist who not only shows you his licks.... but he teaches you.....and this was about 30 years ago, and to this day this Cat still shares the gold...

incredible guitar sound incredible playing

Many years ago he toured in Germany, in Cologne. After the gig he and the Yellow Jackets gave autograms written in his educational book Playin‘ The Blues. What a great person with a huge respect to music and fans. Thanks for this video!

Wow! I was surprised to see how young he was for this presentation! He certainly grew to include more chordal scaling later in his career but those Jazz improvs are always icing on any Blues cake. I MISS the sound that only that Fender Master Series Guitar can make. I gave mine to my oldest son last year. I play it every time I visit him in L.A.

he's one of my favorite bluesy guitarist.

I just found so fascinating having the opportunity to watch Robben at this age of his life after I got to know about the man just about 6 months ago, and already consumed all I could from what was available. :-D Handsome Gentleman! He's like the best teacher also. Thanks Hugo!

he's one of my favorite blues guitarist.

1:37 scales for blues soloing 13:00 fingerings 16:35 vibrato 23:58 12 bar blues solo 29:32 right hand technique 32:52 slow mo blues 37:20 chords and comping 53:45 ends

This lesson has it all!! Thank you Robben. Love that Fender.

I’m pretty much convinced that Mr Ford was born brilliant.

I love Robben!! Always have. Talk to your Daughter album to me is the blues record of our modern era. (High octane Blues at its finest). Changed my playing forever. He is phrasing is so tasty. Its always fresh and never gets old.

Love this Man...such a Master. Thanks

Great lessen ! Is it a washburn guitare he uses or a ibanez?

Bless you for this! Robben Ford is one of the few contemporary blues guitarists steeped in the tradition and that pays unstinting respect to the greats that came before him. From the little bit that I've seen of him in interviews and instructional videos, he seems to be a real genuine soul and incredibly humble..... a rare trait to be seen in modern day musicians.

Man you are a inspiration 😎

Robben is amazing !

Thanks for sharing 👋🤠👍

What a lovely axe. Shame they stopped making them so soon.

Fantastic !! Thanks my friend!!!!!!!

Thanks for the upload. RF is great. What a great guy. He makes music fun.

This is still his most accessible recorded lesson! Something a beginning blues guitarist can actually wrap his his head and hands around. I’ve been watching this on and off since I bought it when it came out and still find inspiration in it every time! He’s a great musician and player but sometimes gets so bogged down in theory when he’s teaching, but if that’s your thing he’s a bottomless well! Anyway great upload

Good stuff 👍

Thank you very much for sharing.

Robben has always had excellent articulation and phrasing, this marks out the truly expressive guitar players who are completely oblivious to matters of 'speed' and strive to play the whole instrument; I am proud to include this guy as an influence!

I love the idea of centering your blues lines around the 6th. Really nice. It sounds dorian as well. Nice the double notes as well.

Thx Great Video best player RF

My word he was young here

Thanks a lot

Thanks a lot for this video :)

Start 11:06 1. 11:14 2. 11:17 3. 11:21 4. 11:23 (5. 11:26) 6. 11:30 7. 11:33 (8. 11:35) 9. 11:40 10. 11:43 (11. 11:48) (12. 11:53) 13. 11:58 14. 12:06 15. 12:15 16. 12:18 (17. 12:23) 18. 12:27 19. 12:32 20. 12:40 21: 12:44 22: 12:49

Thanks, this video is great.

thank you for uploading this!

Love his work with, the spoon.

great upload

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This is still my favorite guitar that he ever used :) They are EXTREMELY rare. I saw one years ago with a factory-installed Kahler. It was a rare piece. I should have bought it !

Robben’s voice has not changed at all in 35-40 years

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My goodness, I had this way back on VHS. Never imagined I'd find it again. Robben Ford is a musician's musician, the professional's professional.

So young here!!!

wow...everyone was young once.

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Damn, he is soooo young here!

Thanks! Great video..

Very cool

How time fly's............. it's been about 40 beautiful years of inspiration from Robben.. I hope I can play rhythm guitar in his Heavenly band...

Thank you for the amazing upload. This dvd costs a LOT on amazon btw...

I just found my old VHS of this last night, but either the tape or my old VCR is bad, thanks for posting this on KZfaq!

Haha he just plays the scale down and up and sounds great :)

So you're telling me this was '91 making Robben 40 years old here ?!?! He looks 15! Lol

Great Robben Ford one great modern Bluesman,,

Robben is bluesman from God!

I thought he was the 4th Porcaro brother :) or Ralph Maccio from cross roads

I wonder when he's improvising he thinks to himself " I'm playing G minor pentatonic on the G chord so the G is the root, the B is the b3rd, etc. and now I'm playing the C chord and the G becomes the 5th, the B the b7th, etc."

Agreed.

OMG How old is this video? Robben looks like a teenager

As I listened to this whole thing you have gone slow in such a way that I got it ! . This is the best blues lesson EVER 🎸🎸🎸🎸

Is this where Ralph Machio went after the Crossroads? I wonder what happened to Steve Vai. I like that version more than the real one. I still don’t get if he was the devil or the other guy lol

wonderful..can someone tell me what model Fender Guitar he is playing? never seen this model...thanks

Is this the legendary dumble amp? Sounds a lot like my hotrod deluxe lol

What guitar is this please help

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His voice didn't change a little bit :D looks like another person using his voice :D

You specified scales for the first 4 bars, how were scales applied over the rest of the 12 bar blues?

If you could show me this in 33and a 3rd or SLOWER 😊 I would be grateful FOR EVERY 😎

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Ford is god

11:16 the bass line of the backing track reminds me of the theme song of the movie ghost busters haha

went to ukiah high school,just didnt understand the talant in front of me then

Hate to criticise the almighty, but the Bb over a G7 functions as a sharp 9, rather than a flat 3. What a player though.

👏👏👏👏👏😁

I swear he looks like Michael Jackson here.

I realize this sounds hugely arrogant and Robben obviously makes it work but if you only play the Gm pentatonic on the C chord you will be leaving out the 3rd, E of the C chord, E is not part of the Gm pentatonic and it is a important chord tone, if you only play the G minor pentatonic over the D chord then you will be leaving out the A of the D chord which the 5th, another important chord tone....I'm just saying.

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While Robben Ford is one of my very favorite guitarists; and one of the finest around.... I don't think this is at all representative of his current style. I believe this is at least 12-15 years old. This seems far different that I get having seen him just this summer.

The 31 thumbs-down as of 4/22/20 down are from Pearl Jam fans lol

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I used to not know who he was and hearing his name just assumed he was a woman. Now I know why I didn’t know who he was. His influences are exactly the people who make jazz and blues seem incredibly boring and some of the most commercial jazz, ie take five, that sounds the very most like origins of dreadful smooth jazzers like Kenny G. A guitarist could go their whole life without hearing him play and miss absolutely nothing. And BB King- he is good but if i watch a concert I want to see BB King not 20 other random guys who sit on stage and play 90% of the solos. And Dumble amps… overrated, overpriced, and IMO sounds worse than average. His music is not rhythmic, it’s not moving, it doesn’t make me want to move, it doesn’t make me feel anything, it’s just “pretty.” It has none of the passion, it’s basically the watered down white version that was made to sell albums; except he obviously didn’t do a good job of selling anything except interest in ridiculously pompous amplifiers. And btw- listening to his voice, and abnormally puffy upper torso, and I am still not sure that he isn’t a woman. In old age he has bit of resemblance to Kaitlin. Not sure exactly where it’s common for men to talk like this certainly nowhere I ever went. Must be one of the places where those tough holy rolling southerners stem from. The kind of guys who confuse loving Jesus for being attracted to images of a muscular long haired ancient rock star lol.

This is boring- and the tone hurts my ears. Enough treble Daniel San