Blues Guitar Lessons

Most blues guitar music is improvised, meaning the guitarist simply makes up the licks as he goes along. It’s been this way throughout the history of the blues. This being the case, however, it’s a good idea for beginning guitar players to at least give the form a little study before plunging in. One way …

Playing the blues is more about feeling than the technical knowledge you have of the form. It helps to know that a blues scale is a major scale with a flatted third, flatted fifth, and flatted seventh, (or a minor pentatonic with a diminished 5th), but this is only theory and means nothing if you …

What up fellow blues guitar lovers, Darrin Goodman here with some more info to help you along on your guitar journey. Today I want to tell you about some great YouTube blues guitar lessons that are on the GuitarControl.com YouTube Channel.  GuitarControl.com YouTube There are so many great blues guitar lessons on the channel from …

It’s Darrin Goodman again bringing you some more tasty guitar tidbits. Today I want to give you behind blue eyes guitar tab and a little history about the song. “Behind Blue Eyes” was originally written and recorded by the English rock band “The Who” on the 1971 album “Who’s Next” and has been covered by …

Blues guitar is a more complicated and stylistic portion of guitar playing. Its classic feel has caused it to fade into the background of modern things like pop and rock. Regardless, it is still used today by great guitarists all around the world. And it’s easy to see why: it has a vibe that makes …

There’s a common misconception that you need to suffer to play the blues on guitar. You have to be poor, broken hearted, or a victim of one bad circumstance or another if you can possibly hope to play the blues. While bad luck and hard times can certainly lend themselves to some of the emotion …

Over the years, blues guitar players have used a lot of different guitars to get that blues sound, but which electric guitar is the quintessential best blues guitar? Fender Stratocaster Fender’s Stratocaster, or “Strat” for short, has been a staple of blues music since the ‘60s. Although it’s used for virtually any genre of music, …

Wazzzup my guitar friends, its Darrin Goodman again from GuitarControl.com bringing you a little guitar lesson to brighten up your day. So you want to know how to play the blues on guitar. That’s a question with many answers, too many for this short lesson today, but I will give you some stuff to get …