Memphis blues guitar is one of the most groove-deep, horn-friendly, singer-friendly styles in American music. It’s the sound of Hi Records in the 1970s, the rhythm parts behind Al Green and Ann Peebles, the propulsive eighth-note pulse that Teenie Hodges carved into songs like “Love and Happiness,” and…
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Chicago blues guitar tone is one of the most influential sounds in modern electric guitar. It’s the cranked-amp, slightly-broken-up, vocal-vibrato sound that powered Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Hound Dog Taylor, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and a generation of British rockers who studied them like scripture. In the lesson…
Most guitarists learn the blues as a pentatonic language. Five notes, a 12-bar form, and a handful of licks that work over the whole thing. That vocabulary will take you a long way, but it will also put a ceiling on your playing that you will eventually feel.…
You’ve practiced basic blues licks for months, but something’s missing when you try to solo over chord changes. The magic happens when you master blues guitar chord transitions, especially the fundamental one to four chord movement that forms the backbone of countless blues standards. Dig this lesson? Check…
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Delta blues history is the story of how a small handful of musicians, working with cheap guitars in the Mississippi Delta, created a body of music that would eventually power every electric blues record, every rock and roll riff, and every modern American blues guitar style we know…
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Few sounds in American music hit harder than Texas blues guitar. It’s the rhythm-driven, bend-heavy, vocal-phrased style that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Freddie King, and Albert Collins burned into the canon. If you’re an intermediate player ready to dig in and woodshed something with real grit, this…
