oh my lordy! i finally get the turnaround thing!!!! it makes it so you dont have to stop and start something else. Sorta just leads ya there so you can continue making music!! Boy am I jazzed now. Thank you so much Lauren, I often thin youre born to play guitar but more often I think youre born to teach it.
By far my favorite guitar channel. You do a great job explaining/teaching each lesson. It was difficult to understand some other tutorials, but every video of yours I have watched has been excellent. Thank you so much!
A good friend of mine loves Chicago Blues. He just tells me 1-4-5, the key, and whether there's a turnaround. Then I can play along without knowing anything else about the song. Can jam for hours doing just that. It's amazing how many songs can be played using the same shape!
Hey eating some carry out Thaifood was checking some UA-cam yours popped up decided to take a brief lesson while wolfing down some food. Good job. As always. Very inspiring,as a little boy second oldest brother would play this, About 1966 never learned myself other than maybe once. Thanks for your inspiration gonna do it. PS love Antiques and old cars. There is something about the way they made them, to last maybe? As well as driving an old car or truck. Especially when you step on the pedal and hear and feel the engine😳😊👍 stay well have a beautiful day. Jim
Good lessons Lauren - love the way you explain things and show how to do it slowly first with close up on guitar - makes it so easy to follow your teaching - thank you
Somehow I seemed to have missed this lesson . Anyhow better late than never , it was a good one! I think something has finally just clicked in my old brain about 12 bar blues and turn arounds ! Thank you Laura.
Great lesson and explanation! I get the turn around, wish you had also shown how to easily walk out (end) the progression so it sounded complete rather than just a fingering lesson.
Great lesson, Lauren! It's a Must for every blues beginner. Learning the notes on the fretboard is not that difficult as it seems. 1-4-5 Chord progression, turnaround.... that's the basics. And perfectly teached. Take care!! 🎸👍
Awesome exercise for fun and for working of finger dexterity that always pays off in other areas. Going to add this to my daily practice session =) thanks!
Maybe think about using a guitar with fret markers if you're making a beginner video lesson! Will be much easier to locate positions for beginning players.
Thanks for the great less Lauren. I love the blues. Please consider doing more blues lessons. It would be cool if you could play to a backing track at the end so we have a sample of how it sounds all put together.
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Hi Lauren great lesson, so clear and precis love listening to you, that's the trouble must practice more oop's still so many videos you have shown wow your good love em to bits, and you too he he Best wishes Ken xxx
This is awesome! I'm definitely going to try this out because I've been struggling a bit with the 12 barre blues. This will make it much easier. Btw.... Isn't this method what they call the caged method?
Great lesson, Lauren. But something confuses me about it technically with the 4 notes you play in each bar. These are 1)the root, 2)the root an octave higher, 3)the note between the 6th and 7th notes in the scale, and finally 4) the 5th. Now, it makes sense to me that the root notes and the 5th sound good together, but why does that note between the 6th and 7th notes of the scale work from a music theory point of view? Wouldn't things NORMALLY stick to the notes in the scale? Or am I being too much a pedantic slave to the scale?
Hi Pete, great question. Honestly, I don't know the exact theory behind why it works. In general, any tone or note could be made to work when playing lead guitar. Depends on how you play it. Scales are great to learn, but it's cool and fun to play outside then as well
@@LaurenBateman Thanks for the reply. I've been thinking about this off and on and maybe I have an answer to my own question. My theory is that in blues, 7 chords (B7, E7, A7 etc) are often used. As we know, these are just chords with a flatted 7th added in. So, maybe using the flatted 7th (the note between the 7th and the 6th) in these bluesy scenarios (and no doubt others) works.
Good morning Lauren. I’m watching your lesson at the same time that I’m making my coffee and getting a quick bite before going out to my volunteer work. What I love about your lessons is that even if I feel they are a bit beyond me, you communicate the constant drumbeat of, “You can do this!” So even if I’m not fully following all of the details, before your lesson is halfway through you have given me the feeling that if I just pay attention, sit down and focus…Yes! I can do this! Thank you so much for your delightful and encouraging lessons. Have a great day. You’ve certainly started mine off in the right direction.
Is it just me or did everyone's brain just explode? I don't think I totally understand what's going on, but this has to be the coolest thing ever. So "shapes" aren't just for chords. Actually I think I see a power chord in that shuffle. So notes that work together are in shapes. Shapes help you find notes. Something just clicked I think. BTW, if I UA-cam search 12 bar bleus backing track, will that work with this?
Great video, so well taught! Why am I fooling around with all these male teachers, when there’s is fantastic woman teaching us how to play? Truth is, I did want to sign up with you, but I’ll have to save for it during these difficult times.
Lisa, welcome to the channel. Yes, it's quite the sausage fest out there huh? 🤣 I got your back. Watch out boys. There's a woman in town. 💃 Also, I do have my free crash course on the website. There's lots of free stuff fortunately for people who can't take the leap yet with the course.
Well, I attempted to learn this today. But my dexterity still needs a lot of work apparently, because I struggle to reach between the 5th and seventh frets. I'm a somewhat young guy, but I've got a lot of arthritis in my hands. So I still need to work a bit on my dexterity before I can accomplish this.
Please explain what I doing wrong but it seems with the fingering I am playing A, A-octive, G, E then back to A. 5 5 on E string = A. 7 7 on D string = A octave. 5 5 on D string = G. 7 7 on A string = E then back to A. Thanks.
oh i see now ! yes ! i can see the pattern ! as long as the very first note of each riff actually starts on either an A note, a D note or an E note then that is all that matters isn't it ? a ha yes i get it now ! lol cool :) thanks heaps lauren ! lol :) This is PERFECT for my lead guitar riff and lead guitar turnaround that i want to practice so that i can play the 60's song called "Rock And Roll Music" by the Beatles !!!!! lol :) I will then learn an A major scale and an A Minor scale and learn A major, D major and E major Arpegios so that i can make up my own lead guitar solo for this song !!!!!! lol :)
What a cool lesson ...learning this as soon as i get over this covid (yes i know good start to the year but onwards and upwards) ...ps heard one of your albums this week ...I must admit sometimes you sing on here whilst teaching guitar and I was not expecting a lot lol ...but I apologise for thinking this....and I must admit I was wrong because you dont half remind me of a cross bettween Laura Brannigan and Sheral Crow both of whom I like....There was a great song on your album I really liked...Wondered have you got chords for it or a lesson on it out there as I would like to learn it ....its called if you where mine.
Any videos on just teaching me the shuffle rhythm? I try using a metronome but it’s not the same. Do you strike the strings on the number. I can’t get this down. I play along and it’s fine but when I turn off the video I forget the rhythm.
FORD?? That’s an insult to Camaro lovers everywhere! Just kidding, I asked the same thing, only because I had a 1969 Camaro and recognized the body shape. Lauren said she has a 1968 ( I think) Camaro, hence the model. Enjoy the lesson, Lauren is awesome!
I am a huge Camaro lover. I own a 1968. The radio, I just really like antiques and I saw this radio and said that would be cool in my sub porch. I have a lot of older things from my grandfather, like his old cameras. When I started filming on UA-cam, I wanted to use it.
Mind blown...! you just opened up the whole damn fretboard pretty much... OMG. Once I memorise that pattern and I already know the notes on the top 2 strings. This gonna be my new party trick. Thank you so much. Very cool simple lesson.
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You're an amazing teacher Lauren. Easy to understand for a 71 year old beginner. Thanks...
You're so welcome!
I really like the way Lauren teaches guitar basics as well as the more advanced. It is slow and easy to catch on. Great place to learn.
Glad you liked it!
oh my lordy! i finally get the turnaround thing!!!! it makes it so you dont have to stop and start something else. Sorta just leads ya there so you can continue making music!! Boy am I jazzed now. Thank you so much Lauren, I often thin youre born to play guitar but more often I think youre born to teach it.
Yes! You got it. And thank you for the kind comment.
Just happened across your video this is probably one of the clearest explanations of the 12 bar blues videos I've seen great job!
Wow, thanks!
By far my favorite guitar channel. You do a great job explaining/teaching each lesson. It was difficult to understand some other tutorials, but every video of yours I have watched has been excellent. Thank you so much!
Aww thanks Randy. Glad to help. 😊
Easily the best explanation of a twelve bar blues EVER! Love your delivery to camera and proud to be a new subscriber from here on.
Awesome, thank you!
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Right back at ya
This was great a lot of info on patterns on 12 bar. Excellent lesson Thank you 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
excellent, I never dreamed I could do this, but totally get it after watching your instructions !! thank you.
You're very welcome 😀 Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much. I’m a beginner guitar player and you are such an excellent teacher. So helpful and not intimidating, thanks again. Bless you
Appreciate that Maria. You got this!
A good friend of mine loves Chicago Blues. He just tells me 1-4-5, the key, and whether there's a turnaround. Then I can play along without knowing anything else about the song. Can jam for hours doing just that. It's amazing how many songs can be played using the same shape!
Yes, so much fun!
Hey eating some carry out Thaifood was checking some UA-cam yours popped up decided to take a brief lesson while wolfing down some food. Good job. As always. Very inspiring,as a little boy second oldest brother would play this, About 1966 never learned myself other than maybe once. Thanks for your inspiration gonna do it. PS love Antiques and old cars. There is something about the way they made them, to last maybe? As well as driving an old car or truck. Especially when you step on the pedal and hear and feel the engine😳😊👍 stay well have a beautiful day. Jim
Thanka for popping by Jim
Good lessons Lauren - love the way you explain things and show how to do it slowly first with close up on guitar - makes it so easy to follow your teaching - thank you
You're very welcome!
Top teaching, Lauren. Created a lightbulb 💡 moment for me. Thanks a bunch 👍
Love when that happens!
This is an awesome lesson! You not only explained 12-bar blues really well, but made it accessible for folks like me! Thank you, and subscribed!
You're very welcome!
Ty Lauren! Your helping achieve the guitar that I’ve wanted to do for 40+ years!! Ty for explaining things so even I can understand lol. Ty
Happy to help!
So awesome and so much fun! Thanks so much, Teach!
You're welcome!
Somehow I seemed to have missed this lesson . Anyhow better late than never , it was a good one! I think something has finally just clicked in my old brain about 12 bar blues and turn arounds ! Thank you Laura.
Glad you liked it!
I learned to do this with single picking per note but this one is a really good alternate picking exercise!
Very useful lesson clearly presented!
You're welcome!
You're welcome!
This was fun and easy. Thanks!
You're welcome!
78 here. Got it second listen. Gonna use this to learn the notes of that E string. Thanks.
Rock on!
Thank you! This was a blast to learn!!
Lauren you are absolutely the best guitar instructor, thank you!
Aww thanks Carol
Thank you for this lesson
You're welcome!
Another great lesson Lauren...as always, the ideal combination of playing and theory, all aimed at the novice player.... invaluable....thanks....👍👍
You're welcome Frank!
Great lesson. Many thanks.
My pleasure!
Finally. Finally a lesson a beginner as me, can understand and try to follow, thanks from DK.🙂
Happy to hear that!
Great simple 12bar explanation with some theory sprinkled in!! Well done
Glad you liked it!
Great lesson and explanation! I get the turn around, wish you had also shown how to easily walk out (end) the progression so it sounded complete rather than just a fingering lesson.
Well I'm putting together a whole blues course right now!!!
Super nice.. thanks for the clear explanation
You are welcome 😊
Great lesson, Lauren! It's a Must for every blues beginner. Learning the notes on the fretboard is not that difficult as it seems. 1-4-5 Chord progression, turnaround.... that's the basics. And perfectly teached. Take care!! 🎸👍
Thanks Dean!
Awesome exercise for fun and for working of finger dexterity that always pays off in other areas. Going to add this to my daily practice session =) thanks!
Awesome!
Very cool!🎉😊 Thank you for keeping the diagrams up long enough to review.
You're welcome!
Excellent lesson, can’t thank you enough!!
You're welcome Lisa
Thank you Lauren! I learn every time I watch one of your amazing videos! 😊
You are welcome!
Maybe think about using a guitar with fret markers if you're making a beginner video lesson! Will be much easier to locate positions for beginning players.
Thanks so much. I'm worked on getting a different guitar with a different company. Why we include the wonderful diagrams on screen.
Classic blues riff, well explained. Love it.
Glad you liked it!
Absolutely awesome ❤️
Thank you for watching!
Lauren, Thank You, you teach me so easy and amazing!!!
Aww you're welcome!!
Lauren, this is so cool, and thank you for making it very easy to follow and understand!
You're so welcome!
😊 Fun playing any 🔵 blue song
👍 Great,waw, 👌 Excellent
12 Bar 💙 Blues
Bay ,have a 👍 Great day
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THIS is fun! Thank you very much Lauren! 🎉
You're so welcome!
Thanks for the great less Lauren. I love the blues. Please consider doing more blues lessons. It would be cool if you could play to a backing track at the end so we have a sample of how it sounds all put together.
Hi Craig, I recently bought looper. I have a few more Blues lessons I recorded coming soon. Stay tuned.
I love it, I can do this.
You got this!
Thanks for sharing !
My pleasure!
Very well done and just what I needed as a beginner in a rut. Thanks Lauren!
Glad it was helpful!
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Good morning maam, I'm watching your guitar lesson I'm a begginer
That's great! Check out my other videos for begginers ua-cam.com/play/PL10FTzm-zsiKn_Ja0XQ5DkkVq9qHdGbQW.html
Mind Blown!
Excellent! Perfect combination of so many foundational exercises...and anything blues related sounds so cool 😀
Yes it goes!
I love it can't wait to do it thanks Lauren.. 🙏
Have fun!
Hi Lauren great lesson, so clear and precis love listening to you, that's the trouble must practice more oop's still so many videos you have shown wow your good love em to bits, and you too he he Best wishes Ken xxx
You got it! Keep practicing.
4:07 purple haze, almost 😃
Cool solo on that one
Very cool, I think I got it, sorta. Fun!!!
Awesome
😁 Happy Halladay🎸
Happy Holidays!
Very Nice...Thank you.
Most welcome
Good job Lauren, love your content and you
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Great one 👍
Thanks
Awesome awesome teacher!!! Thank You 🙏
You're so welcome!
That created a Fun morning. Thanks
Glad to help. I'm sure the pup had fun listening.
@@LaurenBateman caused me to dust off the Classical 6-string. The electric still has Ibanez written in the dust.
Wonderful!!!
So motivating... 🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
Thank you so much!
This was so cool thanks😎
You're so welcome
I like this gonna give it a try I like it I’m no pro at the guitar
Go for it!
Success achieved.
Awesome!
Thank you for this lesson, LAuren. This pattern could be used on the E-Bass guitar as well.
You're welcome! Glad it helped :)
This sounds the same as the instrumental by the yardbirds GOT TO HURRY . Good tune
Yeah, and at times it sounds like the intro to Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N Roses.
Great lesson, I can do this. What if I want to play chords for the turn around?
Awesome.
Thanks!
This is awesome! I'm definitely going to try this out because I've been struggling a bit with the 12 barre blues. This will make it much easier. Btw.... Isn't this method what they call the caged method?
I’m honestly not familiar with the CAGED method. I was never taught it.
@@LaurenBateman Oh, ok. I've just seen a few videos on it, and it seemed pretty similar so I was just curious.
You need to plug into an electric guitar to show the Blues. Some compression & some distortion. Chicago style Blues where it all broke loose.
Rock on. I'm mostly and acoustic player but might bust out the Gretsch
when you say pick the A DU,DU.. IT looks like sometimes you pick UD.? I gest it doesn't matter. Thank you
There is not picking in this exercise
Merci.
Thanks for watching!
Great lesson, Lauren. But something confuses me about it technically with the 4 notes you play in each bar. These are 1)the root, 2)the root an octave higher, 3)the note between the 6th and 7th notes in the scale, and finally 4) the 5th. Now, it makes sense to me that the root notes and the 5th sound good together, but why does that note between the 6th and 7th notes of the scale work from a music theory point of view? Wouldn't things NORMALLY stick to the notes in the scale? Or am I being too much a pedantic slave to the scale?
Hi Pete, great question. Honestly, I don't know the exact theory behind why it works. In general, any tone or note could be made to work when playing lead guitar. Depends on how you play it.
Scales are great to learn, but it's cool and fun to play outside then as well
@@LaurenBateman Thanks for the reply. I've been thinking about this off and on and maybe I have an answer to my own question. My theory is that in blues, 7 chords (B7, E7, A7 etc) are often used. As we know, these are just chords with a flatted 7th added in. So, maybe using the flatted 7th (the note between the 7th and the 6th) in these bluesy scenarios (and no doubt others) works.
In addition to knowing the key you need to know the chord progression to make this work.
It's an L shape. So if you play the traditional 12 bar blues you only.beed to know your starting chord. Then follow the shape.
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So the the 5 is on the same string as the 4 or?
Not sure I understand the question. Sorry.
great!
It's super fun to play with.
@@LaurenBateman yeah its great for chilling out and learn some notes also
These chords are the same as "Wild Thing" by The Troggs. I - IV - V (- IV - I) + G - A - G - A (VII - I) :- ))
Yes! I have a lesson on that coming out soon!
@@LaurenBateman Great! 🎸
Good morning Lauren. I’m watching your lesson at the same time that I’m making my coffee and getting a quick bite before going out to my volunteer work. What I love about your lessons is that even if I feel they are a bit beyond me, you communicate the constant drumbeat of, “You can do this!” So even if I’m not fully following all of the details, before your lesson is halfway through you have given me the feeling that if I just pay attention, sit down and focus…Yes! I can do this! Thank you so much for your delightful and encouraging lessons. Have a great day. You’ve certainly started mine off in the right direction.
Responded before on your other comment
Is it just me or did everyone's brain just explode? I don't think I totally understand what's going on, but this has to be the coolest thing ever. So "shapes" aren't just for chords. Actually I think I see a power chord in that shuffle. So notes that work together are in shapes. Shapes help you find notes. Something just clicked I think.
BTW, if I UA-cam search 12 bar bleus backing track, will that work with this?
It should work!
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@@LaurenBateman There was always such a mystery behind this and you explained in a simple and easy to understand fashion. Great job!!
Thanks!
You bet!
I like the way you teach, great job. im going to learn this one, thanks
Rock on!
Thanks!
You got it!
Simple, cool and well taught! This lesson touches all the bases. Thank you, Lauren.
Thanks Vince!!!
Great video, so well taught! Why am I fooling around with all these male teachers, when there’s is fantastic woman teaching us how to play? Truth is, I did want to sign up with you, but I’ll have to save for it during these difficult times.
Lisa, welcome to the channel. Yes, it's quite the sausage fest out there huh? 🤣 I got your back. Watch out boys. There's a woman in town. 💃 Also, I do have my free crash course on the website. There's lots of free stuff fortunately for people who can't take the leap yet with the course.
Divisive rhetoric... lame
Well, I attempted to learn this today. But my dexterity still needs a lot of work apparently, because I struggle to reach between the 5th and seventh frets. I'm a somewhat young guy, but I've got a lot of arthritis in my hands. So I still need to work a bit on my dexterity before I can accomplish this.
Good of you to give it a try. Come back in a month or two and give it another go. See how much progress you've made.
Thanks Lauren, awesome lesson
12-Bar Original by The Beatles❤️❤️🤗🤗
Glad you liked it!!
Please explain what I doing wrong but it seems with the fingering I am playing A,
A-octive, G, E then back to A. 5 5 on E string = A. 7 7 on D string = A octave. 5 5 on D string = G. 7 7 on A string = E then back to A. Thanks.
From memory, yes that sounds about right.
oh i see now ! yes ! i can see the pattern ! as long as the very first note of each riff actually starts on either an A note, a D note or an E note then that is all that matters isn't it ? a ha yes i get it now ! lol cool :) thanks heaps lauren ! lol :) This is PERFECT for my lead guitar riff and lead guitar turnaround that i want to practice so that i can play the 60's song called "Rock And Roll Music" by the Beatles !!!!! lol :) I will then learn an A major scale and an A Minor scale and learn A major, D major and E major Arpegios so that i can make up my own lead guitar solo for this song !!!!!! lol :)
You got it
What a cool lesson ...learning this as soon as i get over this covid (yes i know good start to the year but onwards and upwards) ...ps heard one of your albums this week ...I must admit sometimes you sing on here whilst teaching guitar and I was not expecting a lot lol ...but I apologise for thinking this....and I must admit I was wrong because you dont half remind me of a cross bettween Laura Brannigan and Sheral Crow both of whom I like....There was a great song on your album I really liked...Wondered have you got chords for it or a lesson on it out there as I would like to learn it ....its called if you where mine.
Thanks for watching. I love Sheryl Crow too.
Any videos on just teaching me the shuffle rhythm? I try using a metronome but it’s not the same. Do you strike the strings on the number. I can’t get this down. I play along and it’s fine but when I turn off the video I forget the rhythm.
Yes, I have a Blues Guitar lesson. ua-cam.com/video/GVcknaMq2Fc/v-deo.html
Maybe about 3 min in I talk about the shuffle rhyhtm
Lauren ,, what is the significance of the toy ford and the old radio
FORD?? That’s an insult to Camaro lovers everywhere! Just kidding, I asked the same thing, only because I had a 1969 Camaro and recognized the body shape. Lauren said she has a 1968 ( I think) Camaro, hence the model.
Enjoy the lesson, Lauren is awesome!
I am a huge Camaro lover. I own a 1968. The radio, I just really like antiques and I saw this radio and said that would be cool in my sub porch. I have a lot of older things from my grandfather, like his old cameras. When I started filming on UA-cam, I wanted to use it.
Yes Steve, a 68 your are correct 😎
I learned this one, was easy, got to practice my speed now, thanks again!
That's great to hear! Glad to help :D
Mind blown...! you just opened up the whole damn fretboard pretty much... OMG. Once I memorise that pattern and I already know the notes on the top 2 strings. This gonna be my new party trick. Thank you so much. Very cool simple lesson.
Glad you fond this helpful!
What an awesome lesson Lauren. Love learning the blues and what a great exercise for picking accuracy. Thank you for teaching such amazing lessons 😊
You're so welcome!
Professional lesson Thank you
You're welcome