Descripción
🏟️ Check out Philip Sayce tour dates: https://www.philipsayce.com/tour 👉 And if this conversation gets you fired up to go deeper with your own blues playing, you can join the Blues Immersion waiting list below. It’s where we explore blues vocabulary, phrasing, rhythm, feel, and expression in a much more structured way—so you can build confidence and start sounding more like you when you play:
💡 In this video, I sit down with incredible blues guitarist Philip Sayce to talk about his guitar journey, blues language, tone, practice, and what it really means to play from the heart. Philip shares how players like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Buddy Guy, and the Kings shaped his sound and how years of listening, learning by ear, and playing live helped him develop his own voice. We also dig into the difference between practicing and performing, why repetition matters, how to stay loose in the pocket, and how Philip thinks about tone, pedals, amps, and his beloved 1963 Stratocaster, “Mother.”
🔗 If you love blues guitar, expressive playing, and killer tone, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss! Plus, check out Philip Sayce and his incredible music here: https://www.phillipsayce.com
📖 Chapters
00:00 - Introduction: Justin introduces Philip Sayce
00:54 - Early beginnings and childhood influences (Clapton, SRV)
02:53 - The bedroom practice years and early club gigs
03:50 - Learning by ear and the Toronto scene
06:49 - Blues as a language and the "Poetry" analogy
08:38 - Building vocabulary and improvising
10:00 - Lessons learned from playing with Jeff Healey
11:12 - Developing fluid technique and timing
11:55 - Playing with world-class drummers (Kenny Aronoff)
15:15 - Current practice routine and constant refinement
17:29 - The George Mumford & Kobe Bryant approach
19:16 - Perfection vs. Human emotion
23:30 - Gear Talk
💙 And if this gets you fired up to go deeper with your own blues playing, you can join the Blues Immersion waiting list below and be the first one to know when enrollment opens again! https://justinguitar.com/blim