Easy Beginner Blues Guitar Chord Progression

Here is a cool little video lesson for all of you blues guitar lovers.  This is taught by one of my favorite guitar instructors, Marty Schwartz from GuitarJamz.  In this lesson, he explains how to play a cool blues guitar progression in the key of E using the chords: E7, A7 and B7 (If you don’t already know how to play these chords, then click each chord for a lesson on how to play them, or just watch the video below as Marty demonstrates how to play each chord.)

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Acoustic Blues Guitar Solo Lesson Using the Open E Blues Scale

Here is a great blues guitar lesson from Marty Schwartz for all of you acoustic blues enthusiasts. This lesson is designed for both beginners and intermediate players.

In this video tutorial, Marty talks about some different concepts that will ultimately help you put together awesome blues guitar solos.

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Learning Jazz Guitar – Common Scales Used In Jazz Guitar (Part 3)

By Craig Bassett

Learning to play jazz guitar can be a frustrating experience if you don’t understand jazz guitar scales. Learning and understanding scales is like learning the alphabet of a new language. It is an absolutely necessary step in learning the “language” of jazz guitar. Without mastery and internalization of jazz scales, fluent and creative jazz guitar soloing becomes virtually impossible!

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Playing Jazz Guitar – Common Scales Used In Jazz Guitar (Part 2)

By Craig Bassett

Playing jazz guitar fluently is definitely a challenge. It is a lifelong study. People new to jazz often underestimate the sheer volume of information that needs to be absorbed. Especially in the area of jazz guitar scales!

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Easy Country Acoustic Guitar Song – Stupid Boy by Keith Urban

How to Play “Stupid Boy” by Keith Urban on Acoustic Guitar

Learn how to play the song Stupid Boy by Keith Urban with this free country guitar lesson.  This song was written by Dave Berg, Deanna Bryant and sarah Buxton and recorded by Keith Urban.  It is the second single from his 2006 album Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing. Keith Urban won a Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for “Stupid Boy” a year after it was released.  You can learn more about this song over at Wikipedia.

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Advanced Guitar Chord Lesson – Learn to Play F9

F9 – Advanced Jazz Guitar Chord Tutorial

The F9 Guitar Chord (also known as F Dominant 9, F Dominant 9th, F Dominant Ninth) is often referred to as a Jazz chord. Just play it using the chord diagrams below and you will instantly see why .

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Jazz Guitar Scales – Common Scales Used In Jazz Guitar (Part 1)

By Craig Bassett

Learning jazz guitar scales can be a very daunting project. For the jazz newbie there seems to be an endless number of jazz scales that have to be learnt. It can be very overwhelming, and it can often be hard to even know where to start!

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How to Jazz up your Chord Progressions

The following is a video excerpt from the popular home study course Gibson’s Learn and Master Guitar with Steve Krenz, sold through Legacy Learning Systems.  This is an advanced jazz guitar lesson, a full chapter from the course called “Jazzing up your Chord Progressions”.  Speaking of the course, if you are not familiar with it as of yet, follow this link to read my review on Gibson’s Learn & Master Guitar.  I am a proud owner of this course and highly recommend it to anyone wanting to learn how to play guitar from the comfort of their own home.

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Beginner Blues Slide Guitar Lesson

Blues Slide Guitar Lesson For Beginners

Slide Guitar (Also Know As Bottleneck Guitar) is a unique sounding style of guitar that is often associated with The Blues, but is also used in other Genres of music like Hawaiian, Jazz and Rock to name a few.  No one knows for sure who invented it, but when you mention slide guitar, you will almost always think of The Blues.

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Blues Turnaround Lesson For Acoustic Guitar

The Blues Turnaround is a special kind of lick, that can be simple or complex, and is typically played during the last two measures of a chord progression, quite commonly in the 12 bar blues.

Its a signal that your chord progression is about to end and go back to the beginning or “turn around”.

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