Blues Guitar Lessons For Texas Blues Fans

Free Blues Guitar Lessons

You'll find over 60 free blues guitar lessons in this section. The most recent lessons are listed here. Links to the complete index, and free lesson categories are in the right column.

Friday
Jan272012

Reverse Raking Technique

In this lesson you'll learn about a technique called reverse raking that gives your notes a very cool sound. Used by SRV, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer, Jimi Hendrix and others.

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Friday
Dec232011

Silent Night Blues Solo

Last year for Christmas, I taught you some Hendrix/SRV style chords for the Silent Night melody. This year, I'm teaching a SRV-influenced solo to play over 1 chorus of the melody.

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Friday
Dec162011

Freddie's Influence Free Lesson

In this video you'll learn 4 Freddie King licks, using samples directly from my new lesson series, Freddie's Influence. If you like what you see here, please check out the full lesson series.

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Friday
Dec022011

Thanksgiving Ballad Critique

I attempt to point out every single mistake I made in the video I posted last week for Thanksgiving.

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Thursday
Nov242011

Thanksgiving Ballad 2011

For the past two years, I've done Thanksgiving Day videos using a ballad style backing track that's a slighly modified version of "While We Cry" by Kenny Wayne Shepherd. This year I just decided to post a video of me playing along.

So much of my time is spent planning and shooting lessons, I sometimes forget to just play the guitar, no lessons, no breakdown, just playing. Today it just felt like I needed to play instead of teach. I hope you enjoy it :-)

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Friday
Nov182011

How To Improve A Boring Blues Rhythm

We've all heard that typical chunk-a-chunk blues rhythm played to death. Just because it's overdone, doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve it. In this lesson I'll show you 6 different ways to play the same fundamental rhythm.

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Friday
Nov112011

Jimmy Page Blues Lick

In this lesson you'll learn a Jimmy Page blues lick, as played during the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction for Led Zeppelin. Played in Box 3, it offers a slightly different feel from what you may be used to.

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Friday
Nov042011

KWS "Never Lookin' Back" Strumming

In this video you'll learn the fast, syncopated, strumming that Kenny Wayne Shepherd does at the end of his hit single "Never Looking Back".

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Friday
Oct212011

Learn 4 B.B. King Licks

This lesson video contains excerpts from my B.B.'s Influence lesson series, available today. You'll learn 4 of the licks taught in that lesson series.

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Friday
Oct142011

Freddie King Texas Guitar Boogie

Learn the boogie rhythm featured in one of the most popular Freddie King videos on YouTube. No picks, just your fingers. A simple rhythm, but very difficult to play.

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