In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to spice up your rhythm and lead in a funky, minor key blues composition by learning to play "outside the box" (which means including something unexpected). This is much more common in jazz, but sounds just as good in the blues. … [Read more...]
Minor Key, R&B Style Composition – Using Call & Response Technique – Solo Guitar Lesson EP293
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a fun, minor key R&B style composition on acoustic guitar that is designed to give some different ideas for approaching rhythm. You'll be using the "Call & Response" style technique to alternate back and forth between rhythm and lead. … [Read more...]
Have a Blues Jam Session By Yourself on Guitar (Just 4 Chords) – Blues Guitar Lesson EP292
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play both rhythm and lead in a solo jam session (no accompaniment needed). You'll also learn a right-hand strum technique and how to play the Mixolydian scale when soloing. Everything is created with just 4 basic chords (E, Bm, A, and G).. … [Read more...]
Learn a Jazzy, Blues Composition That You Can Play By Yourself on Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP289
In this week's lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition (no accompaniment required) that isn't the typical 1, 4, 5 blues format. This has a jazzy chord arrangement to keep things interesting and give you ideas for other ways to play the blues (similar to Lonnie Johnson's approach). This also uses the "call & response" technique to allow you to alternate back and forth between chords and lead. Los of takeaways in this one! … [Read more...]
Play a 12 Bar Blues Composition By Yourself on Guitar (No Accompaniment) Blues Guitar Lesson – EP288
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a classic, 12 bar blues composition that you can play by yourself on electric or acoustic guitar. This uses the "call & response" technique which allows you to easily go back and forth between rhythm and lead licks. As always, I'll break everything down note for note and explain the "why" behind the notes so that you can start using these licks when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson – with Rhythm Fills – EP286
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that includes several classic rhythm fills. I'll show you how to transpose all of these licks and fills into other keys so that you can start using them when you improvise. … [Read more...]
Boogie Woogie Style Blues Guitar Lesson – Play it By Yourself – EP284
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a really fun Boogie Woogie style blues composition that doesn't require any accompaniment. You can jam on this one all by yourself on acoustic or electric guitar. I'll also walk through several useful takeaways that you can apply when playing rhythm or lead. … [Read more...]
Minor Key Blues Guitar Lesson Played with a Percussive Fingerstyle – EP283
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a minor key blues in B minor (although, I'll show you how to easily transpose this and play it in any key). This is played with a percussive fingerstyle rhythm and requires no jam track - you can play this one all by yourself. … [Read more...]
Rock, Blues Rhythm (with fill licks) that you can play by yourself on guitar – Blues rhythm guitar lesson – EP281
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a rock, blues rhythm that sounds great on it's own (no accompaniment needed). This lesson is designed to give you rhythm strumming and fill lick ideas to make you better at writing and improvising rhythm guitar. … [Read more...]
Play a Blues Shuffle By Yourself On Guitar – Blues Guitar Lesson – EP279
In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a blues shuffle by yourself on guitar. I'll start by showing you how to play a classic blues shuffle rhythm, and then layer in the lead licks in a "call & response" style. No accompaniment is needed when playing this composition. … [Read more...]
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