Play your favorite blues songs and develop your guitar skills in this easy, step-by-step course.
If you're like most guitar players, you LOVE the blues.
And you aspire to fire off hot blues solos on your guitar like Clapton, Vaughan, and Bonamassa.
But, something's missing.
Your playing doesn't sound hot.
You sound like you're just playing up and down scales.
You can't even play a complete blues song.
So, what's the problem?
Your problem is you lack a foundation.
Basically, you've gotten ahead of yourself.
Players like Clapton, Vaughan, and Bonamassa got off the ground by learning the basics of the blues.
They learned the basics by playing through old blues standards.
They learned how to support a vocalist and lead player with rhythm guitar parts.
If you want to play blues music well, you need to learn blues songs and focus on the rhythm guitar parts first.
Don't fool yourself into thinking you can take some shortcut.
If you lack the timing and feel necessary to play rhythm guitar on a whole set of blues songs, your soloing skills will never take shape. 🙁
In order to move forward with your blues guitar playing, you need to lay the right foundation.
You lay the right foundation in Blues 101: Play 10 Iconic Blues Songs.
In this video course, you get to know how some of the most iconic blues songs ever recorded are played.
You develop the rhythm guitar skills necessary to play complete songs and accompany a blues band on stage.
You play some of the most recognizable blues riffs in history and begin to build a vocabulary of blues licks.
But! Make no mistake...
This is not a course on playing lead guitar.
You will not learn how to play any blues guitar solos.
Instead, you will learn everything else you need to practice BEFORE you attempt to play a blues guitar solo.
In this course, you learn...
- How to play 10 iconic blues songs
- How 12-bar blues chord progressions and their variants are played
- The types of chords used in blues music
- What it means to play "straight time" and "shuffle time"
- How to comp your own rhythm guitar parts
- How to use triads and follow a bass player
- How to play blues riffs and licks
The benefits of this course include...
- Play along with complete blues songs
- Improve your hand strength and dexterity
- Learn how to play with others
- Train your ear to recognize and follow blues chord changes
- Understand how blues music is composed
- Build a vocabulary of common blues licks that can later be used to play guitar solos
- Have fun playing some of your favorite music.
In order to be a good blues player, you need to know blues songs.
The songs covered in this course are some of the most iconic blues songs ever recorded.
They feature some of the most recognizable guitar parts in blues music.
These guitar parts are the foundation to every great blues player's style.
You learn the songs through a series of easy-to-follow, step-by-step video lessons with tablature.
After completing this course, you'll be able to play a whole set of blues music. 😊
By laying this foundation, you'll have the skills needed to move forward with your blues playing and reach more of your playing goals. 💪
Get enrolled now and you can complete your first blues song in just 35 minutes. ⏲️
See you inside the course!
-Michael B.
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Level
Beginner to intermediate
Requirements
You should already be able to play songs using open chords, power chords, and barre chords
Skills Taught
Rhythm guitar parts, riffs, synchronous bass/guitar lines, timing, 12-bar blues chord progressions, playing complete songs from memory
Course Contents
Online video, tabs, tracks
Duration
8.5 hours
Songs Covered
- “Smokestack Lightnin’” Howlin' Wolf
- “Hoochie Coochie Man” Muddy Waters
- “Killing Floor” Howlin' Wolf
- “Boom Boom” John Lee Hooker
- “Born Under A Bad Sign” Albert King
- “Life by the Drop” Stevie Ray Vaughan
- “Sweet Home Chicago” Robert Johnson
- “I’m Tore Down” Eric Clapton
- “Hideaway” John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers
- “Five Long Years” Buddy Guy
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Your Instructor
Hailed as a “music-theory expert” by Rolling Stone magazine, Desi Serna is the author of several instructional guitar books and video courses. He hosts one of the most popular guitar podcasts on the Internet and has millions of views on YouTube. Desi is known for his practical, hands-on approach to music teaching, with a focus on the guitar fretboard and emphasis on popular songs. He honed his craft through decades of teaching, performing, and publishing. He lives in the Nashville, Tennessee area, and works full-time managing his GuitarMusicTheory.com website and related content.