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12 Bar Blues Progression

Blues GuitarThe twelve-bar blues is one of the most popular chord progressions used in popular music. Most blues and rock songs rely on this progression. These lessons will show you what it is, and how to use it in your playing.

Jun27

Putting the Rhythm in the Blues

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Nick Minnion provides a short video lesson to help beginners add riffs taken from the blues scale into their playing.

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Oct01

Standard Twelve Bar Blues (and the “Quick Change” Blues)

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Knowing the basic structure of the twelve bar blues will help you immensely as both a guitarist and a musician, particularly if you want to play and jam with other musicians. Here’s a guide to explain how it works.

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Sep26

Diatonic Chords

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Diatonic Chords are chords formed using only the notes in a single major scale. Knowing the diatonic chords of whatever key in which you’re playing a song can help you in more ways than you might dream possible!

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Sep01

Turning Practice Into Play #2 – “Quick Change Chromatic Blues”

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Blues Guitar

Here’s a very cool single-guitar finger style instrumental blues piece that will teach you about driving, single note bass lines and creating cool melody lines and fills.

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May05

Dusty Roads Two Step – A Fingerstyle Song by Peter Simms

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Peter Simms has written a little ditty that shows us how to make your single guitar sound like a small combo band. We’re going to focus on fingerstyle with a melody, bassline and chords.

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Nov01

Color Me Blue – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 5

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It only takes a single note to change the minor pentatonic scale into the “blues scale.” And what a world of difference that one note can make! As in the previous lessons in this series, we’ll provide you with MP3 sound files in order to help you create your own solos.

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Sep15

Combining The Major Scale With The Minor Pentatonic – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 4

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Last time out we sampled the different flavors the major and minor pentatonic scales offered us as tools for soloing over blues progressions. While each had its owns merits, we can create an even more tasteful (not to mention useful) solo when we combine the major scale with the blue note elements of its own minor pentatonic. Come listen!

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Aug24

The Major and the Minor – Turning Scales into Solos – Part 3

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While it’s vital to use a chord progression to help you decide on a scale, knowing the style or feel of both a song and a scale is just as important. This lesson focuses on the minor pentatonic scale and why it is used so much for blues (and other genres) in major keys.

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Jun30

Into The Blue: Rhythm Part 1

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Welcome to the first of a new series of articles entitled Into the Blue, which will explore the style, sound and key players within the Blues genre. This series will be pitched at an intermediate level and will build on techniques and practices that many players will be well aware of. But, of course, we’ll still start off slowly, making sure we leave nothing to chance.

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Feb15

Folsom Prison Blues / Your Cheating Heart

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David returns to the pages of Guitar Noise with another Easy Song for Beginners lesson. Work on your chord changes and strumming with not one, but two great country classics.

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