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Blues Guitar

A Blues Guitar lesson on Albert Collins, an electric blues guitar master.

September 4, 2008

If you want to start playing some tasty, southern fried Texas blues, then you must start learning the blues guitar licks of the late electric blues guitar master, Albert Collins.  In this blues guitar lesson, I’ll show you how to play the blues scale in the style of Albert Collins. Albert had an intense blues [...]

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Duane Allman: A Legend speaks on life, Dickey Betts, and playing blues guitar.

August 25, 2008

I recently discovered an audio interview with the legendary guitarist of the Allman Brothers, Duane Allman. In this interview, you can hear Duane speak candidly in an informal setting on Dickey Betts, creating the Allman Brothers Band, and about life in general. The young guitarist seemed to have a very determined attitude, and to me [...]

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Learn to play blues guitar like Johnny Winter.

August 12, 2008

If you’re looking to play blues guitar like a master, then you will have to start learning the incredible blues guitar licks of Johnny Winter.  This blues guitarist is not as well known as SRV, or Eric Clapton, but he is just as good.  Let me tell you this guy smokes!  In this blues guitar [...]

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Blues Guitar Lesson: The Minor Pentatonic scale

August 6, 2008

Do you want to learn how to play like Eric Clapton, SRV, and Johnny Winter?  In this blues guitar lesson I will show you how to play the Minor Pentatonic Scale, the key ingredient used by these blues guitar legends. So what is the pentatonic scale? Simply put, the minor pentatonic scale is made up [...]

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Blues Backing Tracks: Start practicing with a band.

July 15, 2008

If you want to dramatically improve your blues guitar playing, then one surefire way to do that, is to practice with a band.  You say you have no band?  Well, you’re in luck, because if you have some blues backing tracks to practice with, you can get a similar effect. So why should you practice [...]

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Blues Guitar Lesson: How to develop a good blues guitar vibrato.

June 3, 2008

Does your blues guitar playing suffer from a lack or soul or feeling? In today’s blues guitar lesson, I’m going to tell you how to develop a good blues guitar vibrato by practicing a few different techniques. So why should you learn how to vibrato? Put simply, vibrato is a way to create your signature [...]

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Learn Blues Guitar: 5 Blues Guitar Tips

April 30, 2008

Do you want to spice up your blues guitar playing? In this blues guitar lesson, I will give you 5 blues guitar tips that will take your playing from novice to pro, if these techniques are applied. By learning and applying just a few simple techniques, you can achieve better results with your blues guitar [...]

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Learning how to play guitar: My top 5 albums to learn blues and rock.

April 7, 2008

Let’s face it everybody wants to play guitar. With the popularity of Guitar Hero, even more youngsters are picking up and learning how to play the greatest instrument of all time. That’s right, I said the guitar is “The Greatest Instrument of All Time!” Don’t even try to disagree. Now that we’ve got that covered, [...]

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Playing Blues guitar licks: Are you playing guitar like a singer?

March 24, 2008

Do you want to take your blues guitar playing to the next level? Are you tired of playing nonstop scale-type blues licks? If you said yes, then this blues guitar lesson is for you. So how do you start playing vocal-like blues guitar that makes your audience stand up and listen and wanting more? It [...]

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Learning Blues Guitar: How to play blues like BB King.

January 24, 2008

Do you want to play some killer blues guitar? If you said yes, then the man to listen to is BB king. He has toured for decades, and still remains one of the most recognized blues guitarists in history. In this lead guitar lesson, I’ll show you a cool position that BB uses all the [...]

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