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The guitar is a great instrument to learn not only because it allows for beautiful sounds and tones, but also because it’s highly versatile, meaning you can do both a lot of things with it and play a lot of different styles with it. And one of those styles, which is also extremely popular, is …
Blues is a distinctly American musical form that has influenced music the world over. While many people believe you need to be broke, sad, and down-trodden to play the blues, the truth is, you can be a happy blues player. All it takes is the willingness to listen to the music and put some effort …
Hey guys! Gaby Soule here from GuitarControl.com, today we’re going to take a look at the 12 Bar Blues guitar chord progression. The Twelve Bar blues is probably the most widespread and influential chord progression in blues and all the styles that surround it. It consists of a structure that repeats over and over with …
So if you are looking into learning blues guitar you’re not alone. Blues guitar is one of the most popular styles of guitar being played today. If blues is what you want, you came to the right place. GuitarControl.com has some of the top rated blues instructional courses on the web and also has a …
Good day guitar comrades, Darrin Goodman here with some more tasty guitar tid bits for ya’, today I’m going to be talking about the Pentatonic scale and its cousin the Hexatonic scale, aka, the blues scale. First let’s take a look at the minor pentatonic scale; for these examples let’s use the key of B, …
For any blues guitarist, licks are a very important part of creating cool guitar fills and solos. But what is a lick exactly? You can think of a lick as a stock pattern, meaning it’s just a common pattern that everyone can use. You shouldn’t be afraid that you’re ripping anyone off, or stealing from …
You asked for it! “Folsom Prison Blues Guitar Tab”. Folsom Prison Blues was written and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1955. Cash said he was inspired to write the song after seeing the movie “Inside The Walls of Folsom Prison” while he was serving in the United States Air Force in 1951. He recorded it …
Hello, jazzers! Joshua Olivieri here with some basics on playing the blues guitar. As some of you already know, I have a great fondness for the blues and everything related to it. It is a measure of a guitarist’s skill as well as blank canvas for expressing any kind of emotion while still having an …
Greetings guitar guys and gals, Darrin Goodman here with another mini guitar lesson, today I’m going to be talking about the blues guitar scale. The blues scale is actually just a modified pentatonic scale, so let’s start with that first. The pentatonic scale is a five tone musical scale that is found all over the …
Man, I’m the last guy to be writing about blues guitar riffs. There is very little in modern popular music that I find more redundant and flat-out boring than blues riffs. I have little or no respect for guys like John Mayer who got rich by rehashing the past glories of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie …