Steve Cropper Guitar Lesson

Learn 10 songs by the undisputed king of R&B guitar, Steve Cropper (aka "The Colonel"!) In this lesson we're taking a deep dive through some of my all time favorite guitar riffs written by Steve. His no-nonsense, less is more approach to rhythm guitar playing literally laid the foundations for funk, and inspired generations of guitar players like Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Peter Frampton and modern players like Tom Morello and Jack White, to name a few! During the 1960's he was a part of the house band at the legendary STAX Records in Memphis, Tennessee. He produced, engineered, wrote music for, and backed a never-ending list of Blues, Soul, and R&B artists like Otis Redding, Booker T and the MGs, Eddie Floyd, Aretha Franklin, The Staples Singers, and Albert King. His career after STAX is incredible too, but for this lesson I wanted to focus on his early work. Maybe someday I will make a "Part 2" and look at some of his later stuff with The Blues Brothers and others. I hope learning these songs bring you as much joy as they have to me! Happy practicing everyone! Download the FREE PDF file of this lesson at my website (includes standard notation and TABS). I painstakingly transcribed these myself so I hope they are helpful! Link here: http://www.alexnaumanmusic.com/downloads Thank you for all the support. Please subscribe to the channel if this lesson helped you out! Tune Timestamps: "Time is Tight" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:01:18 "Boot-Leg" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:02:11 "Soul Limbo" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:02:41 "I Can Dig It" (Booker T & the MG's) 0:03:15 "Don't Mess With Cupid" (Otis Redding) 0:03:40 "Old Man Trouble" (Otis Redding) 0:03:55 "Ninety-Nine And A Half (Won't Do)" (Wilson Pickett) 0:04:28 "But It's Alright" (Eddie Floyd) 0:04:58 "Soul Man" (Sam & Dave) 0:05:21 "Born Under A Bad Sign" (Albert King) 0:05:50 #stevecropper #guitarlesson #soulguitar #RnBguitar #stevecropperlesson #stevecropperguitar #STAX #staxrecords #soul #blues #RnB