This lesson is all about repetition. While researching the solo for Johnny’s Influence: Texas Hustle I discovered many instances where he played the same lick multiple times in a row. In this lesson I’ll show you a few examples of how repeating a lick multiple times can add some flavor to your solos.

This lesson is based on my new course Johnny’s Influence: Texas Hustle and in it I’ll teach you a few things I discovered about Johnny’s playing - specifically in the Box 1 shape. These are not difficult or complicated things, but they contribute to the signature sound of his playing in a big way.

There’s a chord change right in the opening bars of “Wham!” by Lonnie Mack that I (somehow) didn’t catch until this week. In this lesson I’ll teach you the main rhythm for the song and show you a couple different ways to play the ending, including some differences between SRV’s cover and Lonnie’s original.

While working on a new course this week I stumbled onto a blues turnaround variation that I had never picked up on before. And that discovery led me to another turnaround variation which I’ll teach you in this lesson. Unlike most of the turnarounds I’ve used, this one uses three different strings instead of just two.

This is a remake of the first lesson I ever published, 15 years ago today on Oct. 21st, 2007. The lick taught in this lesson is what I consider to be the quintessential SRV Signature lick. Nobody before him (that I can think of) used it as often as he did, or played it exactly the same way. I’ll show you each part and then demonstrate it at various speeds over different style backing tracks. Our TXBA Locals members will have SoundSlice tablature to accompany this lesson.

When Stevie Ray Vaughan played a blues shuffle rhythm, he often mixed in some accents on the high strings using a syncopated rhythm. These accents are not complicated, but they do require some practice. In this lesson I’ll show you how to add these accents to your shuffle rhythms in 9 different levels.

In this lesson I’ll teach you the rhythm parts from “Chase The Rainbow” off of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s sophomore album “Trouble Is”, released in 1997. This rhythm part is a good example of mixing small licks with chords to create a huge sound. The free lesson breaks down the rhythm from the verses, but the extended lesson (for TXBA Locals members) breaks down the rhythm parts of the whole song and includes tablature and a backing track.

This is a quick lesson on a signature lick that Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been doing his entire career. It’s obviously influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughan, but there’s something about how he plays it that has made it his own.

For my 300th lesson I wanted to redo one of my oldest lessons with my current production capabilities. This lick is one of the fastest and most difficult licks SRV ever played, from his performance of “Texas Flood” on the “Live at El Mocambo” recording. I first taught this lick back in 2007 when “StevieSnacks” had just launched.

Open strings aren’t just for the Key of E. In this lesson I’ll show you how to use them in the Key of A.