Blues Guitar Styles

This seven-video guitar lesson course will teach you all things blues guitar. From 12-bar changes and harmony variations to scales, licks, chord voicings, and crucial techniques like string bending and vibrato, it's all covered.

Videos
Blues Scale (11:38) - In this first video, you'll learn several fingerings for the blues scale, along with many exercises and licks to help get it under your fingers.
Blues Progressions (13:21) - Learn all about the famous blues progression in different keys and various styles (shuffle, rhumba, etc.) and forms (12-bar, 8-bar, etc.). You'll also explore other important blues concepts like turnarounds, quick-change, intros, endings, and more!
Blues Rhythm Guitar (12:09) - Discover the subtleties and joys of playing blues rhythm in different genres like swing, shuffle, rhumba, and more, along with some helpful tips on blues harmony, seventh chords, boogie rhythms, bassline riffs, ninth chords, and call-and-response.
Blues Licks (08:51) - See how to play and construct classic blues licks using important blues guitar scales (minor pentatonic, blues scale, major pentatonic scale, composite blues scale) and integral techniques like string bending, vibrato, lick variations, accents, grace notes, the B.B. box, and combining scales.
Blues Turnarounds (10:51) - Explore the mechanics of this integral two-bar phrase that's a cornerstone of countless blues songs along with classic examples in various styles.
British Blues Soloing (06:29) - Learn a bunch of classic licks in the style of Eric Clapton, Paul Kossoff, Peter Green, Alvin Lee, and Gary Moore, along with performance and theory tips.
Progressive Blues Licks (13:19) - Discover several strategies for building hip, jazzy lines over blues changes in the style of Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, and Scott Henderson such as superimposition, ii-V changes, chromaticism/side-slipping, double-timing, altered dominant chords, the whole tone scale, the altered scale, and the use of the Dorian mode in a minor blues.