Watch the Austin City Special online guitar lesson by James Hogan from Groove Guitar: Lead

You can't discount the impact Stevie Ray Vaughan had on the blues scene in the 1980's and early 1990's. It can be said that Stevie's tremendous success essentially paved the way for a resurgence of an entire genre of music. Many legendary blues artists found their careers re-ignited after Stevie hit the scene in the early 80's. He was a force of nature!

For this one, we'll be laying down a nasty SRV styled solo over a Texas Shuffle in "A". This example showcases some of SRV's signature gritty, funky and percussive soloing moves. There are some sneaky half and whole step bends here played over 8th note triplets, shuffle 8ths and a variety of other rhythms. We'll be using a fairly clean tone here with a bit of overdrive to fatten things up á la Stevie. Check out the SRV tune "Cold Shot" to hear the inspiration. This is a killer groove to play in a blues trio; especially if you play with a lot of conviction, dig into the notes and can get a fat, "cranked" overdrive tone. Throw on a Leslie speaker effect and run it into a Dumble amp if you've got one handy! For the record, I used an old Tube Screamer, a Hughes & Kettner Tube Rotosphere and a Princeton Reverb in the course performance. Dig it!

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