Hi, my name is Dave Moore. Thanks for buying my lesson series here on Udemy. In this guitar lesson series, we're going to try to tackle 11 of Freddie kings instrumentals from the early 1960s. If you don't know much about Freddie king, he is considered one of the greatest electric blues guitar player. So the classic era, the 1950s and 1960s, he recorded a number of great vocal tune songs like have you ever loved a woman and love her with the feeling tore down and others that have been covered by by many other groups since in this series, however, we're going to focus on the instrumentals that he often recorded as besides for his vocal tunes, and in 1961, Freddie King released a tune called hideaway, which rose to number 29 on the Billboard pop charts. As far as I know that's the highest any electric blues guitar instrumental has ever made it and from that point on He recorded a lot of other great instrumentals and before hideaway he had some others that he did.

So what I've done is I've picked 11 of my favorite Freddie King instrumentals. And I've set them up in a lesson series, where I've grouped them together not only by key, but also I've put them in an order that roughly goes from the easiest to learn and play to the more difficult. And we'll start out with each lesson, there's an overview, which explains just kind of the basics about the song what key it's in some of the chords that are used, anything different or unusual that's done in the song. And then we'll go phrase by phrase verse by verse through each of these 11 tunes. I don't claim to be an expert, but I've tried my best here to teach you these songs exactly the way that Freddie played them on the original recordings. No for note, as they say, there is tab to go along with each verse of each song.

But again, I've done the best I can with the tab I'm not really good at writing tab. And I'm not very musically sophisticated. But what I think I have done is given you a roadmap to be able to find what Freddie's playing and where he's playing it on the guitar neck, which is what tab is basically for. So, without any further ado, let's get started with Freddie King. Now, I do have an introduction section, to these lessons that reviews things like Freddie's right hand style, and also the positions that he used the soloing positions that he is the chords that he used or played over. And I have a couple short videos on his tone and approach to playing the guitar and I have a section with some recommended listening.

I really encourage you to listen to the original tunes that I have on this on this lesson series before you try to learn each one. So for instance, before he tried to tackle the first song, which is called heads up, listen to the Freddie King version of heads up. There are some Some alternate versions of these tunes. And I haven't tried to teach you all the alternate versions I've picked one. And in most cases, I think I've picked the one that was released. And some of the alternate versions have appeared on different compilations of Freddie King songs.

And if you learn what I teach you here, you can figure those out as well. So let's get started.