BB Fuller’s Truckin’ Little Baby is a great way to demonstrate the exciting ragtime blues finger picking style.
One of the most appealing features of such music is the link between verses, called the ‘turnaround’ – let’s see how Fuller often did it.
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Here’s a terrific introduction to the wonders of acoustic blues.
This blues guitar lesson is played on an acoustic guitar in the key of G (although you could play this on electric if you wanted). It’s played using a Bessie Smith-style chord arrangement (something you might hear on the piano) and will allow playing both the rhythm and lead parts without the need for any accompaniment.
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Want to learn? A super easy version to get you started and also the one on the original recording! Enjoy…..
Acoustic blues guitar lesson Lonnie Johnson. Special tuning used often by Lonnie Johnson D-G-D-G-B-E. Blues is in Key of G with capo on second fret.
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Lonnie Johnson’s Guitar Lesson very comprehensive and completely free. It is an acoustic song lesson when you can learn Blues in G by Lonnie Johnson. You will learn also specific tuning which Lonnie Johnson uses in a lot of his songs.
Blues guitar is not hard to learn, but it is hard to master. A beginner can learn a simple blues shuffle within a few weeks while playing a blues song with soul and passion can take years to develop. The reason blues is a great style to learn on guitar as a beginner is that it is a simple style of music to learn.
Learning to play blues on the acoustic guitar can sound great, especially in the key of E. The reason why is that it allows you to use a lot of open strings in your blues licks. The open strings will have your licks resonate more than if you were in a key that had mostly fretted notes.
A common type of three-chord song is the simple twelve-bar blues used in blues and rock and roll. Typically, the three chords used are the chords on the tonic, subdominant, and dominant (scale degrees I, IV and V): in the key of C, these would be the C, F and G chords.
Lead guitar possibilities over an E blues progression, created for people who are looking for beginner blues guitar lesson. We talking about E dominant seven, A seven and a B seven. This people call open position blues, because a lot of licks we will be playing include open strings. For each chord I give you blues lick you can go with it.
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A quick tour of the lead guitar possibilities found in the blues scale. In this lesson, I break down this “open position” scale, and demonstrate three useful licks in the styles of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, and Muddy Waters. In my next video, we will branch out into the pentatonic extension, before finally discovering “B.B’s Box”, keep checking back!
Beginner blues guitar lesson video materials available on youtube are a great source of knowledge and inspiration for people who are starting their adventure with playing the guitar.
It is also worth referring to paper textbooks, which often organize our knowledge and help to learn in a systematic way.
Here are some textbook suggestions that are worth getting interested in:
For Beginners. Specifically designed for students who wish to play Blues guitar, either in a group or for fun. The emphasis is on making music immediately. Covers the essentials of both rhythm and lead playing and contains lots of great sounding licks and solos. (80 pages) by Peter Gelling. Learn more…
The Introduction to Blues Guitar Book by Peter Vogl is a beginning to intermediate course that will teach you the essential concepts of rhythm and soloing for blues guitar. We’ll start by learning chords and strum patterns to play over several distinct rhythms and progressions (slow, shuffle, swing, minor). Peter will also cover the 12-bar blues form and show you a series of turnarounds. From there, we’ll move on to soloing in the key of E before moving on to other keys. You’ll learn how to play, understand, and use a series of scales. Finally, Peter will provide detailed instruction on playing 7 different beginner solos. Each of the solos will show you how to add techniques and phrasing to your lead playing. This course also includes online access to video lessons and audio jam tracks so you can practice each exercise, song, and solo in context. Watch & Learn, Inc. Learn more…
This lesson will get you cookin’ on The Classic Blues Riff. There’s no better name for it! It’s easy to understand, easy to play and instantly recognizable. Add it to your bag of tricks and bring it out next time someone hands you a guitar.
But later in the video is a Lead Guitar Mini-Lesson that complements The Classic Blues Riff. You’re going to want to master it, too. The skills you’ll learn here will get you jamming with another guitar player quickly and easily. Just watch and learn ( and practice!!)
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Reverend Gary Davis was a legendary figure in the world of acoustic blues, ragtime and gospel and influenced many guitarists such as Stefan Grossman and Ry Cooder. Although well versed in all styles of blues picking, he found religion in his thirties and was ordained as a minister, after which time he refused to play the ‘Devil’s music’.
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In this video, I take a look at his basic technique when playing in the key of C, using ‘Cocaine Blues’ as an example. Gary Davis played a jumbo bodied Gibson and favored finger picks, which helped to amplify his sound when performing on the streets of Harlem, as was his habit when living in New York. It’s fair to say that Davis had no betters in this field, while other men that he mentored, such as Blind Boy Fuller, enjoyed much greater commercial success. Perhaps Blind Blake and Willie Walker were the only two guitarists to equal Davis, and of these, Blake’s playing was limited mostly to fast ragtime picking and didn’t have the range of the Reverend’s repertoire.
Davis’ guitar work was creative and complex, which was all the more impressive when we realize that he only used his thumb and forefinger to pick. His finger was nimble, and his picking thumb could move across all six strings producing a syncopated sound. A characteristic feature of the Reverend’s playing was the creation of fast single string runs picked with the thumb and forefinger.
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Of course, there’s a lot more to playing a slow acoustic blues in E than meets the eye (or maybe less?) Often we play without really thinking about those little things we do to make this stuff interesting and also what strategies we have to pick and sing at the same time. Blues guitar lessons need to incorporate all those little things.
In this video I’m taking a closer look at an acoustic blues song I wrote called ‘New Orleans’ – I take it apart a little, and offer some ideas that can be incorporated into any blues in E. Someone once said that a good blues guitar player makes something difficult seem easy, and makes something easy seem difficult – you can make whatever you like out of that! Sounds good though.
Learn acoustic blues guitar in the key of E – the slow way! Very often, simple things work if they are put together properly.
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The acoustic blues guitar style is a big genre of music with many different subgenres and musicians. Guitarists like Fred McDowell and Son House were mainly bottleneck players who played in open tunings, Texas-based guitarist Lightnin’ Hopkins was played in a standard tuning and guys like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Mance Lipscomb mixed the different styles together.
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