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Style of Blues - Free Guitar Lessons

One of the richest and most uniquely American styles of music, blues has been a major inspiration for jazz, bluegrass, country and rock.

Blues Guitar with Hawkeye

Blues Guitar with Hawkeye

Focus: Iowa Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and famed educator, Hawkeye Herman, will guide you through blues guitar concepts and applications. Beginning at the beginner level and gradually advancing to more difficult material, you will learn chords, the 12 bar blues, the blues shuffle, slide guitar and more.

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Blues Guitar with DJ

Blues Guitar with DJ

Focus: DJ will teach you the 12 bar blues with quite a few chord variations and turnaround options. You will also learn the minor pentatonic scale and how to use it for blues lead play. DJ will also teach you a few modern blues songs to help you master the techniques he teaches.

67 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Electric Blues with Eric

Electric Blues with Eric

Focus: Eric Madis will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will start off with the basics of country and urban blues and move on to touch on nearly every facet of electric blues playing.

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Fingerstyle Blues

Fingerstyle Blues

Focus: Orville Johnson combines his amazing fingerstyle abilities with classic blues music. Orville will introduce you to the necessary concepts of fingerstyle and move on to teach classic blues tunes.

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Blues Bottleneck Slide

Blues Bottleneck Slide

Focus: Orville Johnson, an acoustic blues master, will delve into the world of slide guitar head first. He will discuss the slide, it's history and move on to teaching slide technique and related compositions.

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Blues Slide Guitar

Blues Slide Guitar

Focus: Slide guitar and Blues go way back, and have a rich heritage of complimenting each other. The slide is a wonderful way to add that "vocal" quality to your guitar playing as well. This technique can be used with all genres of music, but Eric will cover it within the world of Blues.

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Blues Guitar with Stuart Ziff

Blues Guitar with Stuart Ziff

Focus: Stuart Ziff presents an amazing series on Blues guitar. His unique, no-nonsense approach to playing makes this series perfect for players new to the genre.

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Blues Greats & How They Play

Blues Greats & How They Play

Focus: After reviewing some basics when it comes to the Blues, Hawkeye shares his knowledge from personal experience and one-on-one encounters with some of the greatest classic blues players ever to play! Learn some licks and hear fascinating inside information about some of these players that only a man who was there could deliver!

27 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Slide Guitar

Slide Guitar

Focus: This series by Stuart Ziff is one of the most comprehensive looks at all of the ins and outs of Slide Guitar playing you'll find anywhere. Once Stuart gets your tools and gear whipped into shape, he'll dive into the styles of some of the most influential Slide players in history and inspire you to start or improve your Slide skills with all of the great included examples and backing tracks.

37 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Blowing Up the Blues

Blowing Up the Blues

Focus: In this blues series Jeff discusses the sounds of prolific blues players, provides tips to get outside typical blues playing and imparts his own brand of style to this classic american music style.

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Fingerstyle Blues

Fingerstyle Blues

Focus: Mary Flower combines the best of blues music with amazing fingerstyle arrangements. In this lesson series Mary will get you started in the world of fingerstyle blues.

36 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Electric Blues with Kenny

Electric Blues with Kenny

Focus: Kenny "Blue" Ray will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will cover styles of many of the blues greats as well as throw in his personal library of knowledge.

65 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Evolution to Modern Blues

Evolution to Modern Blues

Focus: Getting into the Blues? This course will help you solidify the characteristics that have built the modern blues. The strength of this course is its broad curriculum that allows you to touch many different aspects of playing the blues, master them, and be able to pull them out the next time you jam with friends or onstage.

33 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
One Chord Blues Jam

One Chord Blues Jam

Focus: Blues has many iterations and styles, ranging from complex forms that include Jazz to the basic 12 bar formula. In this series Nick Russo breaks down an ultra-basic One Chord Blues Jam that he uses to impart his melodic and rhythmic wisdom. By the end of the course you'll be studying the greats of Blues music and you'll be able to jam over a single chord or the basic 12 bar form.

35 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Fingerstyle Blues and Ragtime

Fingerstyle Blues and Ragtime

Focus: Eric Madis covers a uniquely American style of music, the Blues. In this series he tackles the subject from the acoustic fingerstyle perspective and even throws in a bit of ragtime for good measure.

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Jekyll and Hyde Blues

Jekyll and Hyde Blues

Focus: Join Chris Liepe on an epic Blues journey. He will take a 3 minute Blues guitar solo, break it down and teach it lick by lick. By the end of this series your ability to play and understand Blues will increase substantially.

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The Bitter Blues

The Bitter Blues

Focus: This series covers an original Blues song titled "The Bitter Blues." The song was inspired by Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy Page, and as such is an excellent study in modern electric blues. Chris will break down the song into 30 easy to digest sections. Each section can be learned individually, and them combined into a full song.

32 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Blues Masters & Disciples

Blues Masters & Disciples

Focus: Learn the roots and flavors of this timeless style by navigating the roadmap of storied bluesman throughout history. Stuart Ziff, accomplished musician and educator, dedicates 40 lessons to this timeline. We start with T-Bone Walker, move to the "œthree kings" of B.B. King, Albert King and Freddie King... then dissect their "œdisciples" of Mike Bloomfield and Duane Allman.

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Intros Outros and Turnarounds

Intros Outros and Turnarounds

Focus: Twenty fingerstyle blues licks that you can you can use to begin, end, and transition in your twelve bar blues playing. Enjoy the old-timey feel of these timeless masterpieces.

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Blues Forms Practice Plan

Blues Forms Practice Plan

Focus: This Lance Ruby course will take you're beginner blues skills and boost them up a notch! He dives into a multitude of blues forms that you will come across in the genre, making it an essential to have in your blues music toolbox!

25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Americana Roots: Progression

Americana Roots: Progression

Focus: Hello, I’m Keb' Mo' — Welcome to the "Progression” Edition of Americana Roots! I’m excited to have this opportunity to pass on to you what I’ve learned myself over the many years that I’ve been playing guitar, songwriting, recording, and performing on stage. I’m using my songs as the framework for the entire series — it's the best way to give you a true feel for my guitar playing, songwriting, and creative process. Each edition focuses on a key stage of my development as an artist. For this "Progression” Edition, we're going to explore 9 song performances from my The Door, Big Wide Grin, and Suitcase albums. I'll perform each song, show you how to play them, and share the songwriting approaches I used when creating them. And with the interactive tools provided, you'll be able to practice and play along with me. So, grab your guitar and join me on this musical journey!

15 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Americana Roots: Origin

Americana Roots: Origin

Focus: Hello, I’m Keb' Mo' — Welcome to the "Origin" Edition of Americana Roots! I’m excited to have this opportunity to pass on to you what I’ve learned myself over the many years that I’ve been playing guitar, songwriting, recording, and performing on stage. I’m using my songs as the framework for the entire series — it's the best way to give you a true feel for my guitar playing, songwriting, and creative process. Each edition focuses on a key stage of my development as an artist. For this edition, we're going to explore 10 songs from my first two records, Keb' Mo' and Just Like You. I'll perform each song, show you how to play them, and share the songwriting approaches I used when creating them. And with the interactive tools provided, you'll be able to practice and play along with me. So, grab your guitar and join me on this musical journey!

17 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Americana Roots: 3 Edition Collection

Americana Roots: 3 Edition Collection

Focus: Includes Desktop and Mobile downloads, PLUS lifetime streaming from any device, anywhere, anytime. The tab is synced to videos with looping, slo-mo, zoom, and other learning tools.

176 Lessons Series Details
Legends of Blues Rock: Learn Their Tricks

Legends of Blues Rock: Learn Their Tricks

Focus: What do Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Albert King, Joe Perry, Duane Allman, have in common? They all played with feeling, invented a signature guitar sound, and their phrasing and lick techniques became legendary. This course will help you learn to incorporate the signature techniques of the masters into your sound and take your guitar playing to the next level.

25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Blues Rock for Beginners

Blues Rock for Beginners

Focus: Get started, sound great, and have fun playing blues rock guitar. It’s all here: 12-bar blues form, easy rhythms, shuffles, pentatonic scales, how to begin soloing, riffs, getting a great tone from your guitar and amp, and more!

51 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Spice Up the Blues

Spice Up the Blues

Focus: Is your Blues playing bland? Does it feel like your playing is missing a few key ingredients? Well, it's time to spice things up with this comprehensive course as Mark Kroos offers several tools that will add variety to your solo playing over the 12-Bar Blues and beyond!

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Essential Blues Lead Concepts

Essential Blues Lead Concepts

Focus: Finding yourself in a pentatonic rut? Or maybe you have a few pentatonic scales under your fingers but you don't know quite what to do with them. Rob Garland offers the tools you need to enhance your solos within blues-style playing!

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Blues Roadtrip

Blues Roadtrip

Focus: Dave Issacs invites you to hop in the car with him as he takes you on a road trip to experience the different styles of blues! From the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, New Orleans, Texas, and even some British Blues in the 1960s!

25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Digging into the Blues

Digging into the Blues

Focus: Do you have the basics of the blues down and are now ready to add some depth to your Blues playing? Let's join Lance Ruby for his course "Digging Into The Blues" which will introduce you to the vastly different rhythms and styles that this storied genre has to offer!

25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Blue Highways

Blue Highways

Focus: Finding your own personal style as a soloist should be your goal early on. All of the key concepts and approaches in Blue Highways will help you find what makes you “you.” We’ll talk about the head, the hand, and the heart. These are the building blocks and basics needed for building your skill as an improviser: knowledge, technique, and soul!

45 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Beginner Blues Improv

Beginner Blues Improv

Focus: Looking to add to your Blues toolbox to enhance your playing and improv skills? The blues tend to be very improvisational music and Lance Ruby's Tricks of the Trade course for beginner blues players will not only give you a leg up in making your blues playing more dynamic, but it will also lay the groundwork for you to start expressing yourself with blues improvisation!

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Americana Roots: Evolution

Americana Roots: Evolution

Focus: Hello, I’m Keb' Mo' — Welcome to the "Evolution” Edition of Americana Roots! I’m excited to have this opportunity to pass on to you what I’ve learned myself over the many years that I’ve been playing guitar, songwriting, recording, and performing on stage. I’m using my songs as the framework for the entire series — it's the best way to give you a true feel for my guitar playing, songwriting, and creative process. Each edition focuses on a key stage of my development as an artist. For this "Evolution” Edition, we're going to explore 10 songs from my The Reflection, BLUESAmericana, Oklahoma, and Good To Be albums. I'll perform each song, show you how to play them, and share the songwriting approaches I used when creating them. And with the interactive tools provided, you'll be able to practice and play along with me. So, grab your guitar and join me on this musical journey!

13 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Essential Blues Chord Voicings

Essential Blues Chord Voicings

Focus: Some guitar players when playing the Blues tend to get stuck in the same handful of barre chord shapes. If you've found yourself in this group you've found the right course to help you leap over that hurdle! In this expansive series, Rob Garland will help you unlock the "cage" in your playing so you'll have the ability to play inventive chords all over the neck making it easier to improvise in real-world situations!

25 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details
Flying Solo - Beginner Blues

Flying Solo - Beginner Blues

Focus: Are you a beginner blues player that is ready to try your hand at some solos? Charlie Stevens' Flying Solo Course has all the building blocks you need to get you playing solos that will take your blues playing to the next level!

17 Lessons View Free LessonSeries Details