Thank you , very helpful. More vids please.

I must sit down and watch your complete lesson but in the meantime... I've just watched THAT video again and Sam is playing with bare thumb and first finger although it can appear that he is holding a pick. Single chord boogies are great to play but it needs the MAGIC to really make them work! Keep up the good work... I always enjoy your lessons.

Damn, this is like tapping your head and rubbing your stomach, I get bits of it but then it all falls apart, great lesson I guess I just need more (and more) practice.

Thanks so much man I nailed the first part months ago and can’t really get the rest to be fluid. So thank you, I recently , like within the week, went through KZfaq and saved all the videos of kids playing it without tutorial . I was going to sit down and study them soon. Kinda funny you just uploaded this (; so thanks again can’t wait to do your lesson I hope you follow all the way through with this. Big fan of RAW heavy rock and this definitely goes into that playlist to learn . ! Thanks man

Great Lesson as usual

That's nice ! Workin on it. Thank you

Great guitar lesson I will definitely going to learn this piece thanks!

I love your lessons and - thank you - but I agree that a brief demo of what you'll be teaching would be a plus.

As far as I know Magic Sam always played with his fingers. On the live YT version you can see that he has big hands and thick finger tips which gives the illusion that he's holding a pick when he plays 2 adjacent strings with thumb and index. (More below) If you listen to the studio version with headphones you can clearly hear the second guitarist on the right track as schumanhuman says below. Mighty Joe Young is playing some of the bass note stuff that that you think Sam is playing (around 14:20 in your video). Listen again and you'll probably hear it now. In the live version on YT he's clearly sliding that A7 riff. Even though that live version varies from the studio one it's the best ways to get an idea what position he shifts to on the various parts. Sam had big strong hands and could hold that A on the 2nd fret do all kinds of things that I'll never be able to do with my skinny little hands. There's a live version on "Live at the Avant Gard" that's very close to the studio version. He's playing with just bass and drums as he usually did, so there's no other guitar to confuse things. I highly recommend that album. It's the only live album of his that has relatively high quality. And, surprisingly, it was recorded by a High School kid with a couple of mics, a Y-cable, and a tape recorder. One more thing. The 2nd guitarist, Mighty Joe Young, cut 2 or 3 albums. I had one. It only had 5 songs on it with long solos. One song "Five Long Years" is 9 minutes long. The guy was a absolute monster Blues guitarist and very good singer. I don't no why he's never gotten any recognition. Are you familiar with him? Anyway, you did a terrific job on this, Dave. You have one hell of an ear. I'll certainly never be able to play it, but I'll keep trying.

My 2 cents. This sounds pretty accurate but on the original recording I'm definitely hearing 2 guitars, the lead is on the left channel the rhythm on the right and it has a slightly different drier brighter sound. If you pan the track it is more obvious between the 2 parts but as far as I can tell both play the same or v similar bass notes but the lead part I think maybe just hits the open A string when the higher note riffs come in, whereas the rhythm guitar continues with the more elaborate boogie pattern. At 1m40 ish the 2nd guitar drops out for about a minute and the left speaker 'lead' guitar is panned centre, so it might confuse some into thinking there was only one guitar throughout. It's still tough to play even if there was a 2nd guitar though.

Thanks for the lesson! I really wish you would start by playing lick or the song entirely before getting into the lesson. Keep it up!

Watching the live version of him playing it on Earl Hooker's guitar, it looks like he 's playing the A7 double stop while playing a monotonic bass. As for the album version, it definitely sounds like he's playing what you demonstrate what you do here with the full A7 chord.

I remember listening to Magic Sam play Lookin Good at one of his dates in the Avalon Ballroom San Francisco on March 27-29, 1969. Magic Sam did this song with his fingers. This was also the first time Mick Taylor was introduced as the new lead guitar with John Mayall although Mick may have played with John earlier. Bo Diddley and Otis Span were also on the bill. Pretty historic event and I had no idea how historic it was at the time.

Fun Fact: Singer/Harp player James Harman who we lost not long ago had Sam's Strat.Kid Ramos may own it now.

This is a really tough tune to keep all the parts going and keep it in time. I imagine you've seen the old black & white video of him playing Earl Hooker's Les Paul copy, and he manages to keep it together on one guitar, and it isn't even his guitar! There's a reason he was called Magic Sam! For us mortals, it's a lot harder! You've made a good effort, and I think you're pretty close! I would imagine on West Side Soul it's Mighty Joe Young holding down the rhythm while Sam does all the other stuff.

Suggestions for improvement! Maybe you can have a short demo at the beginning for reference :) Also, can you do Freddie King’s Shuffle? His most viewed video and I still cant do it.

Really good lesson. Have you tried using "Transcribe" to slow it down when you're working it out, it's really useful 👍🇮🇪

Can you please link the video where you see Magic Sam using a flat pick?

You can also mute the D string with the top of your index finger. That way the E won't ring out and is also easier to play. You can check on my channel if you like.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKh8daypr7rLdJc.html

Try starting with the musical idea first… Jesus

too much talking