By the end of this course you should be able to understand basic, beginner concepts about Blues Style guitar playing. You should also be able to play basic, beginner skills in a Blues Style.

This course level takes you through pentatonic and blues scales, a wide range of soloing techniques and creative approaches, a look at different regional blues styles and the three famous Kings, and much more.

In this tutorial series of lessons we are going to learn a new way to play a Blues type arrangement involving orchestrating for solo guitar. This involves combining a bassline with upper chord tones.

In this song tutorial we will look at the open minor tuning used by Albert Collins. We'll also show you how to combine the use of a capo with finger picking to get that dirty blues sound in the solo. We'll also explore the rhythm guitar techniques used, then put it all together in a play-along performance.

In this third tutorial we will focus only on targeting chord tones in order to learn more ways to spice up the minor pentatonic "box" blues shape with notes from the major scales. The lessons in this series are based on a lot of the ideas we already learned in the previous series "Major Notes in Minor Pentatonic". For these example exercises we will use the A minor pentatonic scale and a 12 bar...

Who says you can't play a tasty blues solo using only a few notes. In this tutorial you'll learn how to create a blues solo using only a few notes on one or two strings.

A fourteen segment tutorial on major blues,inspired by players like Freddie King,B.B.King and Peter Green.

After completing this tutorial you will have a better understanding of how to solo over an A-minor to D rhythm using alternatives to the A-minor pentatonic scale.

You will learn how to use a slide and we will look at what the left and right hand is doing. You will learn to use Drop D tuning and learn chord voicings suitable for playing slide guitar. You will learn musical phrases and then see how those are constructed out of pentatonic, blues scales and chord tones

These 7 lessons take you through varying blues slide techniques, with different tunings.

Here you learn many tricks to play a great blues in the style of Ry Cooder with your bottle neck by using a drop D tuning. You start from the basics and at the end you will be able to create your own version.

Introduce the learner to 12 Bar Blues structure, minor pentatonic scale, blues scale, 12 bar blues vamp and 7th chord usage in a 12 bar blues progression.

This lesson demonstrates a beginning/intermediate level solo. The strings are raised up high; the hair ties are on; the guitar is tuned to an open E and you're ready to go. Start slowly. You will learn this solo.

Learning slide guitar can be very intimidating.......I hope this lesson will remove some of the mystery and help to get you on your way to playing basic slide guitar. When the slide is covering the 5th fret you'll be playing the A chord, when the slide is above the 10th fret you'll be playing the D chord and when the slide is over the 12th fret you'll be playing the E chord. When playing sli...

This lesson looks at a couple of ways to spice up shuffle rhythms.The first example uses a fairly simple off/on technique to accent the first beat of each bar.The second example is a bit harder to achieve but gives a nice "rolling along" feel to the rhythm.You could put the top string open every other bar ( for example ) rather than every bar - once you have this off pat you can put it into the rh...

This is the introduction video for the Blues Primer 2 Course.

This is the introduction video for the Blues Primer 3 Course.