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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - Intro guitar lesson video
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Texas Flood - Intro

"Texas Flood - Intro" by Stevie Ray Vaughan is the opening passage of one of his most celebrated blues performances, drawn from the landmark 1983 album Texas Flood. The intro showcases Vaughan's commanding tone, slow-blues phrasing, and expressive vibrato, core elements of his electric guitar style. For guitarists, it offers an essential study in dynamics, note choice, and how to establish mood with minimal notes before a song fully opens up.

  • The intro relies heavily on slow, wide vibrato, a defining Vaughan technique worth isolating and practicing at reduced tempo.
  • Vaughan tuned his guitar down a half step to Eb, which slightly loosened his famously heavy string gauges for bending.
  • Texas Flood was Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, released in 1983, and quickly established him as a leading voice in blues guitar.
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SRV's heavily worn '63 'Number One' with thick .013-.058 strings and responsive single-coils defined his expressive, dynamic tone. The guitar's worn frets and responsive pickups let him control saturation purely through picking attack and volume knob, a cornerstone of his finger-driven style.

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SRV used the TS9 as a clean boost with minimal drive, maxing the level to push his cranked tube amps into heavier saturation while adding midrange focus. This approach preserved his dynamic control and kept the tone transparent, letting his fingers shape every nuance of sustain and breakup.

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