I never get tired of Josh Smith: genuineness, clarity, talent and passion. Pure gold 🫶🏼

Best 5min I've spent on any lesson out here. This cat is something else. You can tell he's been there and done that !!

Josh is a super gifted guitarist & teacher. He shares all his knowledge and experience with passion & humility. He can show you in three minutes what a book takes a hundred pages to explain.

Josh...keep up the good work! This lesson on learning blues shuffles is the lesson I’ve been waiting to come along for the past 5 years..short & to the point! Excellent!

Can't wait to see more Josh Smith lessons!!

That’s in the pure gold category of lessons. Brilliant musician.

You know it's good when it feels like it's pushing you to break out but knowing it'll build and be so worthwhile when you do making the return even more satisfying. Your lessons are amazing Josh!

Excellent lesson, 4 minutes and 41 seconds of pure happiness ! Thank you Josh ! 🤩🤩🤩

excellent lesson. in addition to being a great player, you are also an excellent teacher. thank you.

Wow! Josh I've been playing for over 65 years and I never learned more from anyone than i have from you my friend. Esp. the Shuffle lessons. I play mostly classic Country and Blues. My Country/ Ray Price shuffles are my favs.. Keep up the good work. PS.. One of the nicest guys on You-Tube!

Such a great guitarist/Artist...and Josh is giving a lesson. Amazing.👍😃🎸🎼🎶🎵

I’ve only just discovered you Josh and I’m finding your videos and knowledge so interesting. So so great , thank you 👍

Truly, the man, the myth, the legend. What an absolute ultra chad.

This is fantastic, thank you for sharing! I've subscribed and look forward to seeing more.

It`s a few years i know Mr. Smith, all through watching his heavenly solo performances in JTC Guitar ...(into Facebook i think) but this 4-5 minutes video: I learned a lot, simply, very useful ... A real GEM Many thanks to Mr. Smith

man josh smith is master class forsure! you have some groovy licks my guy!

Thanks so much Josh...you're teaching skills and playing are wonderful..i look forward to more shows and lessons

josh smith is one of the best modern blues guy and a classic teacher as well !

Thanks Josh. Great lesson and delivery!

Some great tips here, very concise explanation, love the simple D7 and E7 shapes.

wow. lightbulb moment here. cant wait to practice this. excellent instruction!

I been playing over 20 years for a living and I watch your stuff

I love this guy ! SO pleasent pal !

The feel and groove you create is exellent. Just guitar, and more music than play some of the bands. Great teaching as well. Cheers from Poland.

Great lesson and cool tele Josh!

Indeed you are a good teacher sir Josh... Thanks allot

Great explanation. Great basics. Great lesson.

Fantastic! 🎸

The ”better” I get the more I discover the importance and the joy to learn and master the basics. Your lessons are great.

Once again Josh, thanks for a very interesting lesson, that’s now in the memory bank 👍🏻👍🏻

Josh Smith; You the absolute greatest!!!

This is wisdom. Thanks

Loving the videos!

What a great lesson... straight forward, focused, yet rich with info. Yes, you have to know CAGED, and enough about scales that you understand 6ths, 7th chords (and 9th chords?). But, once you've got that a bit, seeing these embellishments and applications are super cool. And, all that, under 5 minutes!

Thanks Josh! Good vibes from Barcelona 🎸🎼🌟

Great lesson on blues shuffles! Easy finger transitions in the way you play the voicings of the chords.

I always scratch my head when I see thumbs downs on videos like this. What about this video did someone watch and says we that sucks?

Dooood. Thanks for the free lessons..

Great lesson! Thank you.

Great tips 👍 Very relatable too Good job Josh

I just learned something! Thanks 😊

It would be helpful if the chord shapes were shown on screen through the progressions to make sure viewers can play what they seeing and hearing correctly.

Very usefull and sounds really good thanks a lot!!

Great video lesson!!!!

Great video josh...teach us some more of this stuff...thanks

Wonderful lesson!!

That's cool. I noticed I had to put my index finger on the G string not the B as I would usually do to play that triad, but with the 6th added, you already have the B string fretted, so you don't need the index finger on the B, so it works and sounds great! Thanks for sharing!

Super helpful video - thanks!!

Love it! Thanks

Great lesson!

WONDERFULLY Done

Wow that is really helpful thank you...

Yes!

Wish all so-called tutorials were so useful and to the point! Well done!

He's just expanding on a simple concept - 12 bar blues, chords A D E, with an Am pent scale thrown in; then using passing tones like chromatic run ups (notes or chords); think of how a blues scale works beside a pentatonic minor scale. He adds 2 other well know ideas - ii V I (in A thats B E A), and the III which in A is a C. In truer terms there are dominant 7s and suspended notes here, but the premise is using: A D E 12 bar or (A flat) A x2 (D flat) D x2 x2 (E flat) E - B E A (turnaround) or the basic E (E flat) D A C. A few triad shapes will help you with the A chord (see Kind Hearted Woman Blues), and the C7 shape used chromatically (3rd fret D7 5th fret E7). There a nice D flat sound (5th string 4th fret) etc. And don't forget the A string and E string can be open and pressed as you wish. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i8B4na6Kl8fdaWg.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtGaa7ZplsjLpoU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/juCIgsaYxJy4lWQ.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j8B1ja2i29zcinU.html Trouble being it isn't as easy as it looks to keep the rhythm going, mix it up add the fills and passing tones. So nail the concept then watch him and others and listen to proper Delta, Texas and Chicago blues. It helps if you try it out as finger style acoustic beforehand.

2:30 "...so that's a twelve bar blues with very little motion.." ...but with a lot of emotion!!!

Super cool! I need to learn that thumb wrap thang...

great lunch box lesson! Thanks

Really enjoy these vids Josh 👍🏻 Thankyou man!

Great stuff Josh

The 6 chord that's what I was missing thank you very much

Thanks Josh

What a joy. A master

Love this guy

Heck yeah! Thank you, Josh. New Subbie.

josh , great info. btw i enjoyed very much you playing with the mansquatch

I would have never thought about the 6 chord as I would have thought it was too close to a major 7 - 4 chord. When I play it, it does sound very "major 7th." When Josh plays it, sounds great.

Great great lesson

Josh, has anyone told you that you make a great teacher?

Less than 5 minutes and you go with something useful and immediatly applicable. Great lessons!

Great shuffle formula thx

Awesome lesson

Thank you

Great experience 👋😎🎶

Outstanding! Demystifying the blues shuffle in 4:42. Appreciate it!

Thank you joth smish

Fantastic 🤩🙏🏆

Let’s do More!!!!!!

Damn this is good stuff

How could anyone give this a thumbs down? I never get it.

Yeah baby🤘🏻

Excellent

Merci❤

Great video

You are a nice guy.

Yes sir.

Sweet.👍

M a big fan of your ❤

that was cool

Badass.

I lost my hand trying that chord

I love hearing that word support. I've long felt that to be the first priority in playing music with people. Build support systems. Even when you're taking a solo.

Genius

And I always thought the 6th chord was for jazz!

Blues Alive!

❤

Cool.

Nice

Ok. So my fingers are just not fast enough yet. Ive maxed out my what you called the chicago box effort. Doin exactly what you showed already. Backwards ect. I can hear notes in my head i want to play but not yet figured out quite how yet. More effort needed. Thanks for this. I can take something from tis so it does help even though i am sure it is basic for a lot of people......BUT....it was not always basic , was it?

Super economical playing