Guitar Boogie (Arthur Smith) - Guitar Lesson w/tabs

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello hola bonjour appreciate my name is damian bocce and welcome to my back room here in sunny tampa bay florida today i'm going to show you the basic structure of arthur smith's guitar boogie just like how he played it back when he recorded it in 1945 now arthur smith's guitar boogie is an up-tempo 12-bar blues instrumental in the kia e and the song only has three chords it's e a7 and b7 and in this video today i'm going to teach you the first two choruses of the song which is basically the main theme of the tune and if you'd like to learn the first solo in the song i do have a youtube guitar lesson on that i'm going to leave the link in the description down below now in this lesson today i'm basically teaching you some up-tempo old-fashioned boogie woogie blues riffs and what arthur smith was going for in this song was just basically emulating the style of boogie woogie piano players and songs that he heard from big bands of that era now if you find that this video has been helpful to you please give it a thumbs up it really does help me out and please don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already this will keep you notified when all my new guitar lessons come out now last but not least if you like what i'm doing here and you'd like to help support this channel and if you'd like to learn more of the old school style guitar playing that i teach i'd encourage you to pick up my full-length courses that are available on my website i have some great courses on rockabilly guitar and on jump blues guitar you can purchase them as downloads or as dvds these lessons friends will not disappoint okay so let's learn these boogie patterns the guitar boogie what i'm gonna do is play it slowly up close with on-screen tabs so let's get into it okay so when the song starts we play this e5 chord all right all right so when the progression starts we play this over the one chord in a [Music] all right let me show you that slowly and then when the progression moves to the iv chord you play this for two bars in a [Music] and then we're back to the one chord and we play this again for two bars [Music] all right then we go to the b7 for two measures and we play this and then we're back over the one chord in e and we play this for two bars [Music] all right and now we're ready to learn the second chorus uh it's a little bit of a different melody and over e he plays this for four bars all right let me play it for you slowly and then we move to the four chord we're playing over a and he plays this for two bars [Music] all right i'll play it for you slowly and then we move back to the one chord and for two bars we play this again in a and then we move to the five chord the b7 and we play this for two bars [Music] let me play it for you slowly and then it's back to e the one chord again and we're just playing this for two bars [Music] [Applause] now if you'd like you can choose to play this up here you may find that it's easier it's up to you but either way you play it will work it's all about which one you're comfortable using well friends that's going to do it for today's guitar lesson i want to thank you for hanging out with me today if you enjoyed the lesson please give it a thumbs up it really does help me out and be sure to subscribe to my youtube channel if you haven't already this will keep you up to date on all my newest guitar lessons and again friends if you're hungry for some more and you'd like to expand your knowledge on rockabilly and on junk blues i have some great full-length courses that are available on my website and now friends before i go i'd like to leave you with some inspiring words life shouldn't be taken too seriously be sure to take chances smile a little more and laugh a lot laughter not only adds years to your life but it also adds more life to your years but seriously friends enjoy life while you can while you still can and remember to stop living life like you get a second chance and with that friends i'm gonna say goodbye to you much love to you all out there stay safe and i'll see you in another video real soon take care bye you

Channel: Damian Bacci

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Length: 6min 10sec (370 seconds)

Published: Mon May 24 2021