Hideaway Guitar Lesson (Freddie King Blues Guitar) Part 1

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Hide Away Freddie King Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

When the clock struck 9:55 P.M. every Friday night for six years, I played the same song.

"Wait, what!" you may be asking. "You played the same song at the same time every week for six years?"

"Yes!"

"What song is it that you may be wondering?" Well, the answer is "Hide Away" by Freddie King. While this may sound a little crazy, let me fill you in on the backstory. Decades ago, I was sitting in a private guitar lesson with a great teacher I had at the time. In the lesson, he started playing this really cool blues in the key of E. I heard it and was immediately hooked.

I thought, "Wow," and asked my instructor, "What is that?" He said, "That's the Hide Away riff." He didn't really explain it; he just played the riff and said, "Yeah, it's a blues break tune I've been playing for decades."

Then I said, "Awesome, what's a blues break tune?" And he said, "Well, it's a song you play at the end of your set when you are going to take a break. You know it's the one where the leader gets on the mic and says something like, 'Hope you all are enjoying the music tonight. We're gonna take a quick break, but don't go anywhere because we've got a lot more music coming your way. Grab a drink and we'll see you in a few minutes.'"

I thought, "Wow, that's interesting," and then I heard the opening melody again. "Yeah, that would work well for that." Fast forward a few years later, and I had an evening gig by the beach in Santa Monica, California every Friday for six years. At this gig, I used "Hide Away" as my break tune.

"Hide Away" is a 12-bar blues chord progression, and 12-bar blues songs are perfect for break tunes because you can just keep looping the chord progression. You can play it over and over until it's time to take it out, at which point you drop in a blues ending, and that's it.

In this post, I am going to take you through an essential “Hide Away” guitar lesson and share with you deep insights into playing in the style of Freddie King.

How to Sound like Freddie King

King played a number of different guitars throughout his career but he is often most associated with a cherry red Gibson ES-345. Now this guitar is a semi-hollow guitar with humbucker pickups. However on the front of his album Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King, he is seen with a Gibson Gold Top Les Paul with P90 pickups. This is what was used on his early records which included some of his most famous instrumentals like ‘Hide Away‘ and ‘San-Ho-Zay‘.

Obviously as mentioned above a huge part of his sound is in the licks and riffs that he plays, plus his unusual playing technique of fingerstyle with a thumbpick and a metal fingerpick.

If you want to get a sound like King, a semi-hollow Gibson guitar and leaning more on the bridge pickup for a biting tone is a great place to start.

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