Blues Guitar Essentials

Lessons

The Blues is at the core of all the development of pop music in the western world. It is impossible to divorce the blues from virtually all the major pop styles of the 20th century including Jazz, Dixie, Swing, Rock, Funk, Metal and the list goes on. Needless to say the genre of the blues has had its own evolution with a series of great players carrying the torch down to the present day. A study of the guitar and pop music without studying the blues is like trying to study painting using only the colors black and white. The Blues provides us with the tensions and the lines and the forms which we have come to hear as commonplace in almost everything we listen to in the pop styles.

This blues guitar course provides excellent ground work for the study of form and for developing your improvisational style while getting used to the sounds of the characteristic scales and notes used in this style as well as all the related styles. The Blues is great practice and background no matter what style you decide learn to play.

What You'll Learn

1 Building on the blues
2 Building the Blues in A
3 Building Classic Bass Lines and Riffs
4 The A minor pentatonic scale in the blues
5 Spelling in Parallel
6 On the Fretboard in Parallel Major and Minor
7 Examining the flat 3 in building lines
8 Examining the 7 Chord on the Fretboard
9 E minor blues scale and chords
10 Playing a 12 bar in E and A
11 Spelling 13s and 9s on the Guitar Fretboard
12 Building Riffs using the I to IV chord
13 Spelling the 9 and #9 chords
14 E13 chord voicings
15 I – IV – I7 – IV in a Classic Line
16 I – IV – I7 – IV Classic lines cont.
17 E minor pentatonic in open position
18 Building Blues Bass Lines in E
19 Em Blues Scale open
20 the flat 3 blue note
21 Classic Chordal Riff in E Blues
22 Building solo lines in E
23 Building solo lines in E 2
24 A 6 and 9 chord voicings
25 12 Bar Blues in A
26 The Mighty Tritone
27 A Minor Pentatonic in A Blues
28 E6 and 9 chord voicings
29 12 Bar Blues in E
30 12 Bar Blues in E power chords
31 Spelling 9 Chords
32 G Major Pentatonic
33 Building Chordal lines in E Blues I
34 Building chordal lines in E blues
35 Soloing with Chord Tones
36 Soloing with Chord Tones in E
37 12 Bar Blues and Building lines
38 Building on the Power Chord in A
39 Building Blues Bass Lines in A
40 7 Chords in Bb
41 Chord Tone Soloing in A minor