marksknudsen
Verified buyer
02/15/26
Blues variety!
Samantha Fish is one of my favorite Blues artists. Saw her play in New Orleans during their tricentennial. Hence, wanted to learn some of her guitar methods.
Wild Soul
Infuse Your Blues Guitar Soloing With Feel and Fire
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About this course
Blowing out of Kansas City like a crossfire hurricane, award-winning artist Samantha Fish has been tearing up live stages with her rough ’n raucous blues since she was a teen. In just the last three years, Samantha has been recognized with over 30 awards including Artist Of The Year, Best Guitarist, Best Blues Performer, Best Blues Album, Best Independent Blues-Soul Artist, and Best Contemporary Blues Album.
We’re thrilled to welcome this triple threat guitarist/singer/songwriter to the TrueFire family with her first TrueFire course, Wild Soul, which Samantha designed to help you bring raw expression into every song and solo you play.
“I love playing guitar. I love going out and playing live. And I love songwriting and telling stories with lyrics, vocals, and my instrument. When a sound compels you, you want to put the work in to get better. I want to share the creative approaches — and the shortcuts — that have helped me so other players can express what’s in their own wild soul.”
Wild Soul draws on the core techniques Samantha learned from the bluesmen of Mississippi hill country, like Fred McDowell and R.L. Burnside, plus other legends who communicated with soul and grit.
As you play your way through Wild Soul, Samantha will show how to create deep, gutsy riffs by adding bass notes to melodies, navigate the fretboard using CAGED, play brassy slide licks, break writer’s block with open tunings, sing and play simultaneously, write better riffs, combine slide with fretted notes, mimic pedal steel guitar, and many more techniques and approaches that will help take your playing and writing to the next level.
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your fingertips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s unleash our Wild Soul with Samantha Fish.
We’re thrilled to welcome this triple threat guitarist/singer/songwriter to the TrueFire family with her first TrueFire course, Wild Soul, which Samantha designed to help you bring raw expression into every song and solo you play.
“I love playing guitar. I love going out and playing live. And I love songwriting and telling stories with lyrics, vocals, and my instrument. When a sound compels you, you want to put the work in to get better. I want to share the creative approaches — and the shortcuts — that have helped me so other players can express what’s in their own wild soul.”
Wild Soul draws on the core techniques Samantha learned from the bluesmen of Mississippi hill country, like Fred McDowell and R.L. Burnside, plus other legends who communicated with soul and grit.
As you play your way through Wild Soul, Samantha will show how to create deep, gutsy riffs by adding bass notes to melodies, navigate the fretboard using CAGED, play brassy slide licks, break writer’s block with open tunings, sing and play simultaneously, write better riffs, combine slide with fretted notes, mimic pedal steel guitar, and many more techniques and approaches that will help take your playing and writing to the next level.
You’ll have all of TrueFire’s advanced learning tools at your fingertips to personalize your workspace and learn at your own pace.
You can loop, slow down, or speed up any section of a lesson. Plus, all the tab and notation is synced to the videos for the optimal learning experience. You’ll also get tab and standard notation files to print out, Guitar Pro files, and all the backing tracks to practice with.
Grab your guitar, and let’s unleash our Wild Soul with Samantha Fish.
What you'll learn
- Apply CAGED to create more interesting chord progressions with smooth voice leading
- Use chord knowledge to create more melodic solos instead of just running scales
- Learn when to use volume swells in songs (breakdowns, arpeggios, slide solos)
- Discover an alternative to using the guitar's volume knob
- Understand how a volume pedal creates swells and texture
Release date: 11/01/2022 • 3h 19m runtime
Sample lessons
Riffs & Songwriting
Concepts & Approaches
Oh Why?!
Overview
Oh Why?!
Rhythm Performance
Oh Why?!
Lead Performance
What's included
53 lessons • 25 charts • 14 Jam Tracks
Wild Soul
Hey I’m Samantha Fish and welcome to Wild Soul.
I love playing guitar. I love going out and playing live. And I love songwriting and telling stories with lyrics, my voice, and my instrument.
I’ve been playing, performing, and writing since I was a teen and can tell you that it takes time to learn how to fully express yourself musically, whether it’s a song or a solo.
The learning never ends — if something compels you, you’ll want to get better, and you put the work in.
In this course, I’ll share many of the creative approaches, techniques, and “shortcuts” that I’ve learned along the way, which I hope will help you tap into your own “wild soul” on your own musical journey.
We’ll talk about how I use the CAGED method to open up the neck for both chords and soloing, a few of my favorite open tunings, my approaches to hybrid picking, slide, creative ways to approach songwriting, some cigar box guitar and much more.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video, and using TrueFire’s learning tools, you can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
So if you’re ready to get started, grab your guitar, and let’s go.
I love playing guitar. I love going out and playing live. And I love songwriting and telling stories with lyrics, my voice, and my instrument.
I’ve been playing, performing, and writing since I was a teen and can tell you that it takes time to learn how to fully express yourself musically, whether it’s a song or a solo.
The learning never ends — if something compels you, you’ll want to get better, and you put the work in.
In this course, I’ll share many of the creative approaches, techniques, and “shortcuts” that I’ve learned along the way, which I hope will help you tap into your own “wild soul” on your own musical journey.
We’ll talk about how I use the CAGED method to open up the neck for both chords and soloing, a few of my favorite open tunings, my approaches to hybrid picking, slide, creative ways to approach songwriting, some cigar box guitar and much more.
Everything is tabbed and synced to the video, and using TrueFire’s learning tools, you can slow down or loop any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.
So if you’re ready to get started, grab your guitar, and let’s go.
Cigar Box Guitar
Hey everybody! We're going to kick things off with a little introduction to cigar box guitars, the mechanics of these unique instruments and how each one comes with its own unique sound and tone.
Slide Guitar Tips & Technique
In this lesson we're going to dive into some slide guitar tips, tricks, and techniques that will have develop your own unique sound and style.
Bulletproof Cigar Box Jam
In this next series of lessons I'm going to go over a tune I wrote on the Cigar Box Guitar called Bullet Proof. We start things off with a short overview, next we'll dive into a performance of the tune, and finally I'll break it all down for you in detail. Let's get started!
Bulletproof Cigar Box Jam
In this next series of lessons I'm going to go over a tune I wrote on the Cigar Box Guitar called Bullet Proof. We start things off with a short overview, next we'll dive into a performance of the tune, and finally I'll break it all down for you in detail. Let's get started!
Bulletproof Cigar Box Jam
In this next series of lessons I'm going to go over a tune I wrote on the Cigar Box Guitar called Bullet Proof. We start things off with a short overview, next we'll dive into a performance of the tune, and finally I'll break it all down for you in detail. Let's get started!
Stogie Road Rhythm
In this series of lessons I'm going to talk about rhythm and the important role that it plays when you're doing something on the Cigar Box. We start things off with a short overview, next we'll dive into a performance of the tune Stogie Road, and finally I'll break it all down for you in detail. Let's get started!
+ 46 more lessons
Reviews
13 results
missrane
Verified buyer
12/24/25
This one is a lot of fun. Love the cigar box!
OmahaCreep
Verified buyer
11/17/25
Great Blues Lessons
great blues playing lessons , covers various styles/techniques with clear explanations and excellent demonstrations.
brosblues
Verified buyer
09/06/25
A Musical Autobiography
In this entertaining course Samantha Fish takes one through the various paths of her musical journey through cigar box guitars, slide playing, alternate tunings, hybrid picking, and the CAGED system. Tips on songwriting and gear are included. as well in this interesting perspective of a standout performer's craft.
Bobinsky
Verified buyer
04/24/25
Fun and informative Wild Soul by Samantha Fish
Samantha Fish is an enthusiastic and talented guitarist, and this course has lots of great ideas to learn and practice.
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