Sweet Home Chicago - as Robert Johnson played it!

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In today's guitar lesson we learn to play "Sweet Home Chicago" as Robert Johnson played it. Robert used a boogie bass pattern with his thumb that really drove the song with just an acoustic guitar. While many people have updated this song with a full band or with more cliche type patterns, I feel most excited when going back to the roots of how the song was originally recorded all the way back in 1936. It's essential to learn to play the 12-bar blues in E, which we do naturally over this classic blues standard.

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Video Chapters:
00:00 Demo
01:37 Lesson Introduction
01:59 Back to the Roots
02:28 Boogie Bass Pattern
02:59 Finger Pattern
03:34 A Note on Blues Theory
04:17 Training Your Ear with the Blues
05:08 Thumb is the Groove
05:55 12 Bar Blues with Thumb only
07:18 Riffs + Turnaround
08:18 Playthrough
09:28 Add the Fingers
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