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Hell Hound On My Trail
- Robert Johnson

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Thanks so much for purchasing this lesson. I hope you have as much fun learning this one as I had preparing it for you!

YOUR LESSON FILES: You can either download the files below or stream on your computer. I've kept the movie files relatively small to make downloading them easier and faster. You do have the option of streaming the videos from this page.

For each song you'll find the TAB (.pdf file), and the MOVIES numbered (.mov files).

Downloading the lessons: 
PC users - Right click on the file and choose 'Save File As' or 'Download Linked File.'
Mac: Control click on the file and choose 'Save Link As.'


HERE ARE YOUR TAB FILES. There are four pages in two .pdf files.

Page one:
Hell Hound On My Trail - intro, verse and ending.

Pages two and three: Hell Hound Ideas -
verse variations and improvisational ideas.

hellhound_on_my_trail.pdf
File Size: 47 kb
File Type: pdf
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hellhound_on_my_trail_variations.pdf
File Size: 48 kb
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hellhound_ideas.pdf
File Size: 52 kb
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Now for your movie files. There are 13 of these below. Here's the index.

00introandverse - A video of me playing these two parts.

01introinstruction - How to play the intro.

02verseinstruction - Here's how to play the a typical verse.

03thirdversevariation - The variation to the 3rd verse.

04fourthversevariation - The variation to the 4th verse.

05ending - How you can end the song.

06ideas - Let's start adding some additional licks. These 3 videos show you how to do this.

07ideas01

08ideas2


09scales - Using the minor pentatonic scale.

10combiningideas - Here's how I combine many of the licks that you've learned.

11singing - Here's how I'll sing a verse and add ideas afterwards.


12actualrecording -
Finally, I encourage you listen to Robert himself play this song. Here is a breakdown of the song, part by part. You can find this movie embedded into this page below to use as a reference as well as a downloadable file.

HERE ARE THOSE MOVIE FILES. DOWNLOAD THEM HERE.

 

00introandverse.m4v
File Size: 15078 kb
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01introinstruction.m4v
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02verseinstruction.m4v
File Size: 85171 kb
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03thirdversevariation.m4v
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04fourthversevariation.m4v
File Size: 65288 kb
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05ending.m4v
File Size: 30735 kb
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06ideas.m4v
File Size: 17807 kb
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07ideas01.m4v
File Size: 77322 kb
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08ideas2.m4v
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09scales.m4v
File Size: 77379 kb
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10combiningideas.m4v
File Size: 50283 kb
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11singing.m4v
File Size: 52298 kb
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12actualrecording.m4v
File Size: 32062 kb
File Type: m4v
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