Robert,

I love this lesson. I hear it and I will start with the lesson once I will be back home.

Today, I am in Montevideo....

Mother of God, I Love that song, and ECs version is fantastic!  Yessss!

Oh yeah now I am really anxious to punch out and head home... got a couple more hours to go!

Thanks in advance!

Damn, does that look cool!  Maybe someday I'll be intermediate/late intermediate!! someday

OK At last I am home ... watched the performance video... a couple times. Great lesson Robert! Well done!

Robert, great one, looks like another enjoyable challenge to add to the long list of excellent tunes you come up with. 

This is another great lesson which I am really enjoying sinking my teeth into. I love Clapton and the Clapton-esque sounds in this lesson. I'm beginning taking ideas from your lessons, Robert, and incorporating them into my own licks. Thanks a million Robert, as always! Your amigo, Dan.

I just got my fingers into this today- so good, so good.

Hi Robert and everybody. This is a super cool lesson. You have so many great Clapton-esque features it here. What a great example for us all. One thing I wondering about has to do with the chord progression. I'm trying get a better sense and feel of the ...I/ii/V... part of the progression. So if I'm coming with a simple 1-4-5-b7 baseline throughout, what happens when we hit the ii?

Bluffy, that is a great question, because looking for the feel of the rhythm that your going to play over is exactly what will make your solo sound right in the tune.  Reconsider was the foundation for my rhythm section education because of the pronounced drum beats that made the groove easy to follow. And, when I started examining this lesson I went back to playing rhythm chords over RR's performance rather than just jump in and skip the fundamentals that support the song and solo.

OK, there are some cool versions of this song, Freddie King, Elvis, and others, but going from the Clapton version the basic bass line that supports the tune is a boogie:  I-iii-V-vi (1-3-5-6) which you can repeat for the IV and V chord (and walk a little to connect the root target notes if you feel adventurous).  When you get to the ii simply walk it up from ii-iii-IV-bV-V (2-3-4-b5-5) and then turn back down from V playing IV-iii-ii back to the I.  To finish you can do the boogie on the I again and then hit the V or say repeat the walk up like done from the ii except it would be I-iii-IV-bV-V.  

There are lots of variations, this is just a suggestion, and it's a fairly standard chromatic walk up approach.  

Give yourself a lot of credit for thinking about the rhythm and bass lines, those fellas are working hard to make your solo sound great.

Clayton, thanks! Got it, that makes a lot of sense on how and where the chromatic part of the base line goes. I'm finding more and more with these great Robert solos, its better for me to really get the progression and baseline down before spending too much time on the licks, then they fit much better into something that is working...

Good question, I am glad you asked it! I'm not sure if I'm answering your question, but here goes:

The "ii - V" is what is called a "Two Five" progression. See this article too.

It's a way to go to the V chord (D7) but it comes on bars 9-10. Thus this song doesn't have a typical standard blues progression. It's more jazz-inspired. A V chord resolves back to the I chord, and we do that here both at bars 10 and 12.

The 2-5 progression is very, very common in jazz, especially as a way to resolve to the 1 chord, so we see 2-5-1 progressions all the time in jazz.

 Listen to this tune. Every honey bee (2-5), fills with jealousy (2-5), when they see you out with me (2-5) before it goes to the 1 chord. Cool?

Love the lesson but I just started on the Bar Blues and very much want to hop over to this one but trying hard to focus on one thing at a time but you have so much great stuff here!

Timing and attack on this song is such a cool interplay.  Think I'll listen to the solo section until I can sing along with those notes.  If I can't say it how do I expect to play it?