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Ivan Milenkovic10th June 2009Thanks mate!
The difficulty level is relative with all the lessons, sorry about this! Sometimes the levels don't match for everyone, and I agree it could be a bit higher. When determining a level, the safest bet is to check out the slow videos, and then see how doable the lesson is. Cheers mate 
FilipofCroatia9th June 2009Beautiful Ivan! Killer tone
Not sure about 3/10 difficulty tho
Alexiaden934th June 2009Bravo !
- Ivan Milenkovic31st May 2009
Thank you very much mate, very nice of you to say that!
Keilnoth30th May 2009I've listened that lesson about 20 times and it made me smile everytime. Thanks Ivan ! I love it.
- Ivan Milenkovic16th February 2009
Thanks you so kindly guys!
Marcus Siepen15th February 2009great lesson Ivan
RyanS.15th February 2009Wow. Once again you pull off a GREAT lesson and some AWESOME blues licks! Very well done.
- Ivan Milenkovic15th February 2009
Thanks mate, I'm glad you like it!
SensE15th February 2009A lot of cool licks. Thanks Ivan
- Ivan Milenkovic13th February 2009
Thanks a lot Muris
Muris Varajic13th February 2009Sweet playing!!!!!!!!
- Ivan Milenkovic12th February 2009
Well, thanks a lot man, nice of you to say that!
Zsolt Galambos12th February 2009Ivan, you're a true blues king!
- Ivan Milenkovic11th February 2009
Thanks a lot guys!
Jose Mena11th February 2009Excellent phrasing Ivan, loved it
Pedja Simovic11th February 2009Cool finger picking licks Ivan
- Ivan Milenkovic11th February 2009
Thanks a lot Sinisa man!
Sinisa Cekic11th February 2009tHAT'S cOOL Ivan ,superb tone and phrasing
- Ivan Milenkovic11th February 2009
Thanks a lot everybody!
Shat, great lesson and very col licks Ivan. Love your tone, are these new strings? :-)
Thank you very much man! They were probably about new when I recorded, can't remember correctly. 
Dejan Farkas10th February 2009Cool, Knopfler-like picking
Hisham Al-Sanea10th February 2009great and nice Ivan .awesome lesson
Nazgul10th February 2009Great! My favourite genre and the chance to improve my fingerpicking... thanks for this Ivan!
kaznie_NL10th February 2009It sounds wicked Ivan!
Martin la guitarra10th February 2009awesome lesson ivan!
Jeff10th February 2009Excellent Lesson, Ivan! Going to use these licks!
Vasilije Vukmirovic10th February 2009Great lesson!
Fingerpicking affects the sound very much, chicken picking, I think how this technique is called.
berko10th February 2009Man, I wanted to do some similar under the drum roll at the end but I approached that stuff a bit fast and it wouldn't have done any good to the balance. But this is great, many stuff to learn from this
That's why it's great if host instructors come up with something overt the same BT after a collab. Like Pedja did as well and Emir with his Vinnie Moore style solo.
Emir Hot10th February 2009Very cool Ivan. Great licks in there
David Wallimann10th February 2009Shat, great lesson and very col licks Ivan. Love your tone, are these new strings? :-)
- Ivan Milenkovic10th February 2009
Thank you so kindly guys !
Carlos Carrillo10th February 2009Awesome Ivan! Excellent playing! very interesting Blues solo!
Piotr Kaczor10th February 2009This is the blues!!! Excellent playing Ivan!
purple hayes10th February 2009Ohhhhh, yeah! It's getting moved to the top of my bookmarks.
Kuba Szafran10th February 2009That sounds awesome Ivan! Really cool blues ideas
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Bogdan Radovic10th February 2009Very cool lesson Ivan!! I loved the breaks...
Sergio Dorado10th February 2009Very tasty phrasing, Ivan! Like a lot
Toni Suominen10th February 2009Great lesson Ivan!
ErikEklund10th February 2009cool licks Ivan
Kristofer Dahl10th February 2009So cool tone/attack and phrasing - thanks Ivan I am going to have to steal some lick from here!
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Hi GMC, welcome to the first lesson of the three-level solo series called "Fingerpicking Blues Solo"! :)
As the name implies, we will learn some fingerpicking technique mainly intended for the blues. Some of you may recognize the backing - we used it in January Blues Stop Collaboration. The backing has 2 standard I IV V progressions, and in the second part, over the first 4 I chords, there are stops that allow us to express better and pull out some cool licks.
This lesson is mainly intended for beginners in fingerpicking blues. If you have already started to use your fingers when playing the blues, here are some ideas and licks that you can learn and incorporate into your own style if you want.
Backing is a standard 12 bar blues from E (E, A, B), tempo is 130bpm.
This lesson contains:
- Fingerpicking technique
- Blues licks
- Beginner Level fingerstyle blues
- Stop-time Blues Backing track
Enjoy! :)
From this course:
Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
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Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
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