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How to Play Blues Guitar
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A little bit of theory on Blues Guitar
Certain genres of music are simply hard to play on the guitar. Metal is a good example: It requires a high level of guitar proficiency and advanced technical skills like shredding and sweep picking. Other genres like bluegrass require advanced finger picking technique.
Well here's the good news: Blues is not like that! Blues guitar is one of those genres that combine a couple of easy techniques with improvisation and the result is jaw-dropping smoothness. To illustrate this fact, look at the following example: Blues player Albert King became famous for 4 - 5 note solos!
Again, Blues is not a 'proper' style like the classical style; you really don't need lots of technique. But you do need lots of time to fiddle around with what you do know and to try and imitate what other Blues guitarists (from your own music collection) is doing.
Despite the fact that Blues lead guitar sounds so great, you do not need to be a guitar god to master it, all you need is some basic technique, know your scales and add a little bit of improvisation. All of which you will be taught in the following lessons.
Enough Theory. Grab your Electric Guitar, crank up a mild bluesy distortion and let's teach you how to play blues guitar...
Let's get to it
With that intro behind us, you're welcome to jump into the first "How to Play Blues Guitar" lesson. If you're a new Blues player I recommend following these lessons in Chronological order as listed below, starting with number one.
Certain genres of music are simply hard to play on the guitar. Metal is a good example: It requires a high level of guitar proficiency and advanced technical skills like shredding and sweep picking. Other genres like bluegrass require advanced finger picking technique.
Well here's the good news: Blues is not like that! Blues guitar is one of those genres that combine a couple of easy techniques with improvisation and the result is jaw-dropping smoothness. To illustrate this fact, look at the following example: Blues player Albert King became famous for 4 - 5 note solos!
Again, Blues is not a 'proper' style like the classical style; you really don't need lots of technique. But you do need lots of time to fiddle around with what you do know and to try and imitate what other Blues guitarists (from your own music collection) is doing.
Despite the fact that Blues lead guitar sounds so great, you do not need to be a guitar god to master it, all you need is some basic technique, know your scales and add a little bit of improvisation. All of which you will be taught in the following lessons.
Enough Theory. Grab your Electric Guitar, crank up a mild bluesy distortion and let's teach you how to play blues guitar...
Let's get to it
With that intro behind us, you're welcome to jump into the first "How to Play Blues Guitar" lesson. If you're a new Blues player I recommend following these lessons in Chronological order as listed below, starting with number one.
This is the stuff that Rock and Roll was born from, let's teach you how to play it...
Note: These blues guitar lessons are aimed at intermediate players with at least a couple of months of experience with the guitar. If you're a complete newbie, I suggest you start with the beginner lessons and work your way back here.
