Blues Guitar Instruction

Playing blues guitar is an exciting adventure that has no end. Just when you think you have learned all the guitar chords you need, a new area opens up. It could be playing lead guitar, or a funky rhythm or maybe slide guitar.

Finding good instruction is so important. You can certainly learn a great deal on your own, but it takes so long to more or less reinvent the wheel. Why not benefit from the guidance of some of the greats?

Now you can learn to play blues guitar online, or even download personalized instruction from some truly great artists.

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This is such a great way to learn because you can pause the music, replay it as many times as you want, fast forward it, whatever you wish to do. Tapes and DVD's are good, but the new Homespun Instant Access system is much, much better.

Homespun has an extensive library of artists you can check out and for a small fee download some very high quality instructional material. A good example is Keb Mo', you can see a demo of his course for free by clicking here.

Once you get the hang of some basic progressions and fingering, you can begin to improvise and come up with your own original sounds. It is totally fun when you actually are making music, not just playing notes that you have learned.

You can find out how to bend notes, do leads, fills, runs, walk downs, hammer-ons, pickoffs, tapping, slapping and all kinds of cool stuff.

There are so many chords to learn as well. You can't just keep playing E, E7, A and B7 all the time! There are many other chords that you can use to get from E to A, for example. These more or less “in between” chords add a lot of flavor to a song and make it sound unique.

Whether you are learning to play acoustic guitar, or electric, the blues is an awesome style to play. The basic structure is so simple, and you need not know very much at all to get started. Yet within this simplicity lies endless possibility in your ability to improvise.

You also have the option to play the blues with a slide, your bare fingers, finger picks, or a flatpick. You can even use a combination of any or all of these styles, it is up to you. Finger style playing is very versatile and is full of so many variations that you can never really run out of things to learn.

It is a good idea to begin with a light gage of electric or acoustic guitar string. This is because the medium or heavy gage are much harder on the fingers and you might be tempted to give up quickly. The light gage are easy to press against the fretboard and sound just fine. The only drawback is that they do not last as long as medium strings, but this is not really a problem.

All in all, playing blues music is a great way for a beginning acoustic or electric guitar player to start on his journey.

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