Learning The Sentence

In this lesson we're going to break down the lick. First you'll learn it note for note, and then we'll play around with it in a later lesson. Make sure to get really comfortable with this lick, before you move on!

Instructor Anders Mouridsen
Tutorial:
Less Notes, More Blues!
Styles:
Blues
Difficulty:
Learning The Sentence song notation
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Learning The Sentence By Anders Mouridsen

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1 month ago
In this lesson, stanza 41 to end, Anders plays a cool sliding chord progession. I would like to see a tutorial on how he plays this progression.
Mike Olekshy 3 weeks ago

Hello - thanks so much for your question. I think you must be referring to a different lesson, since Anders is only playing lead throughout this lesson. Please leave your question in the Q&A section of the lesson he's playing the cool sliding progression. Thanks!

2 months ago
I noticed you started on high e string but the tabs starts on low e string and you also said it starts on the B string 5th frit, but the tabs shows starting on the high e 5th frit, I may be wrong if so sorry, Thanks
Mike Olekshy 2 months ago

Hello - thanks so much for your question! When Anders plays through the A blues scale at the beginning of the lesson, he starts on the 5th fret of the low string. The low string is the string that sounds the lowest notes, closest to your chin. The high E string players higher notes, and that string is closer to the floor. Then Anders teaches a lick around the 30 second mark of the video. That lick starts on the B string 5th fret, as it shows in the Tab on the 3rd line (Fig. 1). Hope this helps!

6 months ago
Hello I noticed in the Blues lessons that there are no count-ins on the jam tracks, and it's really throwing me off. It's hard to hit the play button and get into position before the track starts. Are there any tips you can provide? Thanks
Mike Olekshy 6 months ago

Hello - thanks so much for your question! Unfortunately, the jam tracks do not have count-ins. One thing to try is simply lay out of the first bar of the jam track, then come in on the 2nd bar. I realize this isn't ideal, but at least the form repeats throughout the jam track a few times, so you do get "bar 1" of the 12 bar form happening a few times once you start the track. Another idea is to play along with Anders in the lesson videos as he plays with the backing track. Some of the lessons in the tutorial feature Anders soloing over 1 time through, then playing rhythm gtr for you during the next time through the form. Hope this helps!

1 year ago
Hi Just a quick question on this lesson - Learning the Sentence. In the video Andres actually counts this tune as if it's in 4/4 with a swung eighth note rhythm (i.e 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +), and I think I can hear it that way. However, the accompanying notation is in 12/8. Which is it? And if its 4/4 can you update the notation?
Josh Workman 1 year ago

Hi Jim, It's kind of both. Technically a blues shuffle is in 12/8 and that's the standard way it's notated. I was a transcriber for Warner and other companies and always dreaded notating blues shuffles because it ends up being harder to write out and to read but that IS the standard way to do it in the publishing world. When describing this stuff verbally, it's often easier to count it as if you're dealing with swung eighth notes, like in jazz. Swung eighths are up for interpretation but roughly sound like a grouping of triplet eighths with the first two tied together so the first eighth sounds a bit longer than the second. I hope this helps.