Blues Guitar Lessons

Blues Guitar Lessons for beginners. Free online blues guitar lessons for students who want to gain an understanding of blues guitar music.

Learn How To Play A Blues Solo

The basis of your efforts to play a blues solo will be the minor pentatonic scale. In the key of E, the scale is: E G A B D. Just five notes, but they are all good ones! If you are new to guitar playing you may not be aware of how many different...

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A minor pentatonic for improvising

The A minor pentatonic scale has five notes: G A C D E You can play it starting on the low E string at the fifth fret like this: A C D E G A C D E G A C Here’s the tab: E———————————5–8—- B————————–5–8———– G——————-5–7—————— D————-5–7———————— A——5–7——————————- E-5-8————————————- For variety you can...

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Twelve bar blues shuffle

The blues has contributed a lot to guitar playing technique, and one of the most exciting elements of blues guitar is the shuffle. If you haven’t tried muting your strings when you play, here’s your chance. The 12 bar blues shuffle is easy to do and it sounds really cool. Doing the shuffle will...

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Learning the notes for the blues and the minor pentatonic

If you use the A minor pentatonic scale as a basis for your musical education, you will be working with the notes A C D E and G all over the guitar neck. To help you make sense of your explorations, look at the job as learning the scale at the first, fifth and...

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An Introduction To Playing The Blues

It’s been a while since the blues has been featured in these pages, so here is an introduction to the blues from one of the masters. Hawkeye Herman has been playing the blues since he was a teenager. That’s over fifty years. He learnt to play from people like Son House, Brownie McGhee, Bukka...

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Blues In A

The bottom line for most people starting out with blues guitar is to become a solo player. This means you know how to improvise and to write yourself a collection of licks.

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