Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons
So you want to learn how to play the blues on your acoustic guitar? On this page you will find a collection of excellent acoustic blues guitar lessons that I gathered from YouTube from the folks over at Next Level Guitar. I can’t promise you will become the next B.B King or Stevie Ray Vaughn after watching these lessons, but you will certainly gain a lot of great insight into playing the blues. Enjoy and happy blues guitar playing!
Beginner Acoustic Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson
Learn acoustic blues lead guitar licks and solo playing
In this lesson we teach how to embellish and play lead licks over an acoustic blues. LOts of fun and the licks can be played on acoustic or electric guitars.
Many more full on video lessons at the full on instructional website at:
http://www.nextlevelguitar.com
3 Blues Guitar Soloing Secrets
By Gary Fletcher
Running up and down a pentatonic scale is an easy way to get started playing blues guitar solos, but you soon realize that there’s more to it than that to create the sounds of blues players you listen to. Here are three secrets to help you extend your pentatonic skills and sound more like your blues guitar heroes.
Minor and Major
Instead of running around minor or major pentatonic positions, get into the habit of using both.
Learn to Play Slide Guitar Like a Pro
By Jason C Diggs
What is referred to as a “slide guitar” is actually a technique, not an instrument. slide guitar is played two ways: the player can hold the guitar normally or horizontally. If it is held normally then the player puts a covering on one of the fingers on his or her left hand and makes sound by sliding the left hand up and down the strings. The object covering the players’ fingers is often referred to as a bottleneck because that was the first material used. If the player holds the guitar horizontally then the player uses a steel, which is similar to a bottleneck but, not surprisingly, composed of steel. To play the guitarist will slide the steel up and down the frets of the guitar. This is referred to as playing a “steel guitar”.
The slide or steel guitar is an essential part of popular music. While it is true the genres of soul, country and jazz have had their share of great slide guitarists throughout the years, legendary slide guitarists always seem to gravitate towards the blues. Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, for example, Name a blues luminary and chances are he is an accomplished slide guitarist. So if you want to play blues guitar or soul or country or any of a number of other genres you’d best learn how to play the slide guitar.
The Blues Guitar Scale and How to Master It
If you are new guitar player who wants to make a career or a hobby out of playing blues guitar, then this essay will give you the basic points to get you on your way as a player and interpreter of the blues. Or maybe you have no intention of specializing in blues guitar playing. In that case my essay will give you the bare bones of musical interpretation using the guitar. These basic points can be applied to any genre of guitar music.
So, let us start with a minor pentatonic scale. Whenever you see the word pentatonic you know the scale has just five notes. This is the A minor pentatonic scale starting at the root note – A at the fifth fret of the sixth string:
Jazz Up Your Blues Guitar
This series will show you a few ways of adding a little jazz flavour to your blues playing. Starting with this lesson on 9th chords. Taught by Justin Sandercoe. Support notes at www.justinguitar.com
The Blues Scale – How It Opened Up A Whole New World To Me
The Blues Scale – How It Opened Up A Whole New World To Me
By Lee Griffith
In my earlier years of playing guitar, I could never even begin to comprehend how guitar players could jam with other musicians and improvise, when it came their turn to take a break. I would listen and watch in amazement as a guitar player would (effortlessly, it seemed) play lick after lick of great sounding lead guitar. Then I read about the blues scale. This simple scale, the blues scale, which I learned in a day, and mastered in a week, opened up an entirely new world to me. By knowing this collection of notes which would go with a given chord, I was able to do amazing feats of improvisation in a few days!
This collection of notes can be played in any key and position on the guitar, but to begin, let’s try it in the key of A, in the fifth position (with your left hand moved up to where you are covering the 5th through the 8th frets).
