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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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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Blues Guitar Chords – Using 7th Chords

By Keith Dean

You hear a song and instantly know it’s a blues tune. How do you know?

It might be in the tempo or the rhythm pattern. Maybe it’s a fast shuffle, or the deliberate staccato of a slow 12/8 beat.

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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

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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 . 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!

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