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Play a 12 Bar Blues Composition By Yourself on Guitar (No Accompaniment) Blues Guitar Lesson – EP288

solo blues guitar lesson

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

blues rhythm guitar lesson

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

boogie woogie blues guitar lesson

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

minor key blues guitar lesson

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

blues shuffle guitar lesson

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...]

Play a blues composition by yourself on guitar – both rhythm and lead – EP277

solo blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn a solo blues composition (with a little bit of a ragtime feel), that you can play by yourself on guitar (works on acoustic or electric guitar). I'll show you how to create compositions like this by combining chords with fill licks. … [Read more...]

CAGED System for Minor Chords – How to play minor chords all over the guitar – EP275

CAGED guitar system with minor chords

This week's guitar lesson is a follow-up to the previous CAGED lesson that I did a few weeks ago (EP273), here's a link to that guitar lesson. That lesson was so popular that I thought it was necessary to create a 2nd part and show how to play the minor chords in various positions using the same methodology. We will be using the A minor, E minor and D minor shapes that you learn in first position to play all over the neck. Like the previous CAGED lesson, this one comes with a composition that … [Read more...]

Slow, Country Lead and Rhythm Guitar Lesson in the key of D – EP274

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a slow, country rhythm and lead over a simple chord progression. Most country guitar lessons online tend to focus on fast, chicken picken' techniques, but this is more in line with what a slow country pedal-steel player might perform. I'll refer back to the CAGED System in quite a few spots as well so this is a nice refresher to last week's EP273 lesson on CAGED. … [Read more...]

Play a Slow Blues Composition By Yourself on Guitar (No Accompaniment) – EP268

slow blues guitar lesson

In this week's guitar lesson, you'll learn how to play a solo blues composition on electric or acoustic guitar that requires no accompaniment. You'll be able to play this at ANY tempo and it will sound great - slow or fast. Just grab a guitar and a pick and start learning :) … [Read more...]

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