Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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00:00 Intro
00:28 Fingerstyle electric blues techniques
12:16 Fingerstyle blues improvisation #1
13:10 Using touch more expressively
21:25 Blues improvisation #2
22:29 Playing freely and without fear
28:27 Outro performance

American blues-rock firebrand Jared James Nichols delivers a masterclass in his viscerally exciting style of playing blue-rock guitar, showing us how to make fingerstyle playing come to life with high-gain electric guitar, how to use subtle expressive techniques to vary your playing and excite the listener and how to play without fear and with maximum fretboard freedom.