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Phil Keaggy - Follow Me Up guitar lesson video
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About Follow Me Up

Phil Keaggy has long been celebrated for fingerpicking and hybrid picking that blur the line between melody and rhythm, and "Follow Me Up" is a good example of that approach in action. In E Standard at 100 BPM, the tempo sits in a comfortable mid-range pocket, but don't let that fool you: the real challenge is keeping independent bass lines, inner voices, and lead figures all moving cleanly at the same time. Getting that layered feel under your fingers takes patience. Pick a short section of the arrangement, drop the speed in the Practice Toolbar, and loop it until each voice feels automatic before bringing it back up to tempo. Phil Keaggy writes parts that reward slow, deliberate practice far more than running through them at full speed. As a piece of Instrumental Rock, it also asks you to carry the entire musical narrative on guitar alone, so phrasing and dynamics matter as much as the notes themselves.

  • Played in E Standard at 100 BPM, the mid-range tempo still demands precise coordination between bass, inner voices, and melody on a single guitar.
  • Hybrid picking or fingerstyle technique is likely needed to voice multiple independent lines simultaneously, making right-hand control the central challenge.
  • Use the Practice Toolbar to loop and slow down any section where the melodic and bass lines overlap, building each layer separately before combining them.

How to Play Follow Me Up

Tuning: E Standard · Tempo: 100 BPM

Use the section loop to isolate a passage, drop the speed below 100%, and set the metronome to 100 BPM to build it up to tempo.

Gibson Les Paul Standard
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Gibson Les Paul Standard

Keaggy's primary electric choice, the Les Paul Standard delivers the warm, vocal midrange and thick sustain he needs for fingerstyle leads and orchestral layering. Its PAF-style humbuckers drive his tube amps into smooth overdrive while keeping looped layers clean.

Gibson Les Paul Custom
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Gibson Les Paul Custom

Keaggy uses this premium Les Paul variant for its enhanced tonal depth and craftsmanship, offering the same warm humbucker character as the Standard but with greater refinement for his most expressive, sustained passages.

Fender Twin Reverb
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Fender Twin Reverb

This clean-headroom workhorse gives Keaggy the sparkly platform he needs to push into saturation via pedals rather than amp distortion, preserving the fingerstyle dynamics crucial to his layered, looping arrangements.

Vox AC30
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Vox AC30

The AC30's chiming midrange and natural breakup complement Keaggy's edge-of-breakup approach, adding harmonic complexity to his loop-based soundscapes while maintaining the articulation required for intricate fingerpicking.

Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9
Pedal

Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9

This smooth overdrive pedal shapes Keaggy's lead tones without losing clarity, driving his tube amps into saturation while preserving note definition in his fast, fingerstyle lines and sustaining solos.

Boss CE-2 Chorus
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Boss CE-2 Chorus

Keaggy employs this classic analog-style chorus to add shimmer and width to his layered orchestral textures, thickening his fingerstyle passages without muddying the midrange definition that defines his signature sound.

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