4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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In this free guitar lesson, I teach you how to play the opening riff heard in Stevie Ray Vaughan’s song, “Cold Shot.” I explain what you need to do to play it using the right tone, timing, and technique. I also answer some email questions.
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Bluesman Vintage Guitars Sedan (Stratocaster-style guitar)
Kemper Profiling amplifier
’64 Verbrovibe + Steel String Dual Pack (early 80s SRV)
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0:00.0 | In episode 80 of the guitar music theory |
0:14.0 | podcast. Greetings guitar engineers welcome to the guitar music theory |
0:24.2 | podcast I am your host Desi Cerna and today I'm going to analyze the opening |
0:29.4 | riff heard in Stevie Ray Vaughn's cold. I'm going to demonstrate how to play it using the right |
0:36.0 | tone, timing, and technique. I'm also going to answer some email questions. |
0:42.0 | Maybe today's lesson is just what you need to |
0:45.1 | take your guitar playing to the next level or maybe you're getting ahead of yourself |
0:48.9 | and you need to back up and fill in some gaps in your playing so you can move forward better. |
0:54.0 | I can help you determine what you should specifically be working on right now. |
0:59.0 | Go to my website, guitar music theory.com, answer the questions I ask you about your playing and I'll send you |
1:05.2 | free custom video instruction calibrated to your current level. I'll help you |
1:10.3 | figure out exactly what you need to do to move forward with your playing and |
1:14.3 | understand how music works. Enroll in your free course now at guitar music theory. com. You can click on the |
1:20.5 | link and the podcast show notes. |
1:23.0 | All right, before we dive in here, let me explain that I've actually pulled the audio out of the YouTube video that I made teaching this same lesson. |
1:42.0 | So you can go over to YouTube, my channel is Desi Cerna |
1:45.3 | guitar or you can just search Desi Cerna Coldshot and you'll find that video and |
1:50.9 | you can watch the video and you can watch me demonstrate all of this. |
1:54.4 | But for the podcast, I've pulled the audio out of it |
1:57.8 | because I explain everything that I do in pretty good detail, |
2:01.4 | so it's something that you can learn and review while you're just... and |
2:04.0 | review while you're just listening to the audio. |
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