To my mind, they start the lesson with an odd choice of song: Texas Flood. Its almost as if they want to confuse you with the hardest to get a handle on song with great blues phrasing, one after the other for each of the three chords. It devolves at times to into play by numbers. Since you loose sight of the melody and he gives you no structure to hang it on. Since its a slow song that is. By no structure and I don't mean to pick on Jamie too much but the way he orients us to the fret board is thus: string four, fret three, then string 1 and fret 7 then string 2 and fret 5. It runs together. He is aware of this and stresses the feel & groove aspect.
Immediately the next song, Pride and Joy, he rectifies this and brings up the musical concept of a I IV V chord progression which is blues and how most of Stevie's stuff is blues. ('Its all Blues' says Miles Davis)
Jamie makes a couple of interesting points. He says that just as it would be almost impossible to duplicate some ones exact speech inflexions, so is it to play back the exact same solo your own or someone else.
He says even Stevie played it a bit different every time. Its a feel thing. An improvised affair Jamie calls it. Texas Flood is a can do number one song. If you take your time. G minor pentatonic.
Put up in a place where it’s easy to see. The cryptic admonishment T. T. T.
When you feel sometimes how slowly you climb.
It ’s well to remember that Things Take Time.
--- Piet Hein