Get the tabs for this solo.

I’ve updated this lesson from 2015 with all the modern format improvements I’ve developed, making it even easier to study each lick from this epic solo. I’ll teach you SRV’s entire final solo note-for-note, from the epic “Sweet Home Chicago” jam at his final Alpine Valley show in 1990.

In this lesson I’ll show you a different way of playing the intro to the song “Honey Bee” by Stevie Ray Vaughan. I first noticed this while cleaning up the “Live at Rockpalast” videos for the Vintage Blues In 4K channel. This variation isn’t any harder to play, but it’s just different enough to get someone’s attention.

Vintage Blues In 4K

SRV - Honey Bee (Live at Rockpalast 1984

Sometimes when bending a string, you need to release the bend at the peak without letting the bent note descend. But releasing a bent string without causing noisy ringing strings is tricky. In this lesson I’ll show you several ways to control this noise using your other fingers, and your picking hand palm.

You know this grip, almost every famous blues and blues rock guitarist uses it. It is the grip of legends. But do you NEED to use it? That’s the question I’ll tackle in this lesson.

Those chords are instantly recognizable. They’re not complicated, but playing the slides the right way is the secret to getting that signature Hendrix sound.

In this lesson we will literally be giving the song “Scuttle Buttin’” the finger. Trust me, it makes sense.

What if there was a simple way to instantly make whatever blues licks you already know sound MUCH better? Well, that kind of magic exists, and it’s called “accents”. In this lesson I’ll show you how to apply accents to a simple lick, then demonstrate some blues playing with and without accents to help you learn to hear the difference.

In this lesson I’ll teach you how to play a short, but very memorable sliding lick that Jimi Hendrix used in Red House over the IV chord. I’ll also show you how to use it over the I and V chords.

There’s a particular kind of blues song that uses a very aggressive minor blues soloing theme, and in this lesson I’ll show you the simple pattern on the fretboard (outside the normal blues boxes) that gives you THAT sound.

B.B. King had a few signature licks that he’d use to kick off a Slow Blues song. The great thing about those licks is that they’re very simple to play, and instantly recognizable. In this lesson I’ll show you about 5 licks, each slightly different, that you can use to start off a slow blues song like B.B. King. In this lesson I’ll show you about 5 licks, each slightly different, that you can use to start off a slow blues song like B.B. King.