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John Mayer Bold As Love Guitar Solo Lesson - Part 1 of 3 - Guitar Breakdown - Guitar instruction and Breakdown
With this lesson we begin to try and fulfill our many John Mayer request. We have had multiple requests over the past 4 months to do a guitar lesson based around the playing style of John Mayer and to breakdown specific rhythm parts and solos by Mr. John Mayer.
This is the first of several guitar lessons we intend on doing to help satisfy those requests.
In this lesson we will breakdown John Mayer's guitar solo for the song Bold As Love. This is a cover of the great Jimi Hendrix song. This solo is not overly complicated but is filled with great feel and even better guitar tone. John does a exceptional job of really digging in and playing a solo that serves the song and not just a solo filled with chops.
As long as you are familiar with the Major Pentatonic scale and have some typical blues style riffs under your fingers ... this solo won't be too challenging (theoretically speaking). That being said ... the challenge will come in really getting the feel and not being afraid to get a little sloppy and aggressive. The other challenge is in some of the phrasing being a little awkward rhythmically speaking.
The beginning of this guitar solo is a great example of working a limited amount of notes over several chords. We will discuss why these simple note choices work so well. Hopefully this will help you when working out your own guitar solos by understanding what makes a certain note work over different chords.
If you are not familiar with John Mayers younger years and his education, you might be surprised to know that he attended Berklee School of Music for a short period of time. A place where he obviously really sharpened his playing skills. HIs style of playing is very much influenced by Jimi Hendrix, BB King, Eric Clapton, and all of the great blues guitar players that put feel above chops.
So we hope you enjoy this lesson and stick around in the coming weeks/months for more John Mayer type guitar lessons ...
Taught by David Clayton
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