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Tommy Emmanuel Acoustic Guitar Blues Youtube
Here’s a very very good Acoustic Blues Improvisation by Tommy Emmanuel. It’s only about two minutes long but he plays a lot in that two minutes, it has certain elements of jazz and boogie in it. Back in the early eighties I used to wa...
Howlin Wolf Youtube Blues Guitar
I’ve posted this short article with an Acoustic Blues Guitar Video on Youtube because a lot of younger playrs may not know of Howlin’ Wolf and some others may have only heard him and never seen footage. It’s called Shake it For Me ...
Acoustic Guitar Blues Scales
I wrote a very simple and helpful guitar TAB and Music Notation of Essential Blues Scales for Acoustic Guitar some time ago. Obviously they are suitable for electric guitar. As there are many new visitors all the time to my acoustic guitar site...
Eric Clapton Youtube Blues - Outside Woman Blues
My introduction to the Cream featuring Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker was in 1969, I was 13 years old and just discovering music. By 1970 I had inherited four albums, Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced, John Wesley Harding by Dylan, Hu...
Blues Scales - Super Blues Part 2
The other day I posted about a blues scale that I invented in my very active musical brain about 3 or 4 in the morning. So now it’s time to dig a fraction deeper and spread it across thre octaves and also add a few guitar lick exercises. S...
Blues Scale - Brand New Invention - Super Blues in E
NEW BLUES SCALE BREAKTHROUGH The standard blues scale has been around for quite some time, also the country blues scale, the one that is really a C# blues scale played over songs in the key of E. I’m reasonably confident that I have invent...
Ligthning Hopkins Youtube Blues Guitarist
In case you missed my previous article about Lightning Hopkins the legendary acoustic Blues Guitar Player, here’s another song complete with sunglasses, it’s a slow blues, talking style of vocal line. This is history and it’s wo...
Guitar Scale Pentatonic Major in B Flat - Part 6 of 6
This guitar scale is the final one in may six part series on Pentatonic Scales. As you my remember from my previous web blog posts, I decided to do a short series because many players have difficulty following through if there is too much informati...
Lightning Hopkins youTube Blues Guitar
Todays video youtube post is Lighning Hopkins, the classic acoustic blues guitar player, he has influenced thousands of players across the world. He was a Texas Blues player and was inspired by Blind Lemon Jefferson. His music holds an important pa...
Stevie Ray Vaughan youTube Acoustic Blues Guitar
If you love acoustic guitar and also Blues, the chances are you’d like Stevie Ray Vaughan playing acoustic blues. I saw Stevie Ray play years ago with his trio, sensational. But I never saw him play acoustic guitar, unfortunate. I did get...
Pentatonic Major Scale in E - Part 3 of 6
This is the 3rd article about guitar scales, this is pentatonic major scale in the Key of E. It’s very useful for improvising in the Key of E, it’s reasonably ’safe sounding’ and difficult to go wrong with it if you are solo...
Guitar Scales - Pentatonic Major Part 2 of 6
The Pentatonic Major scale is pretty common amongst rock players. I’ve written it here in the key of G. It consists of 5 notes, G A B D E. If someone were to turn those notes into a chord it would be a G6 add9 , some might call it a G6 su...
Guitar Scales Pentatonic Minor - Part 1 of 6
Are you feeling a little stuck and having difficulty organizing your practice? Well, I’ve decided to do a six part series on scales to get the old fingers going, READ ON This is the first of a six part series on guitar scales. I’ve...
Ali Farka Toure Boubacar Traore youTube
This Ali Farka Toure youTube also has Boubacar Traore. The musicians from Mali in Africa have a sound that to some of us sounds like the roots of the blues. Listening and being inspired by musicians of other cultures is a very healthy thing to do....
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman youTube
David Grisman and Jerry Garcia are both legends in their own right. Gerry Garcia a former member of the Grateful Dead has long moved on to wherever ALL the dead go; wheras David Grisman is a living legend that has made a name playing Dawg music, b...
Guitar - 7th Triads for Mobility
In this guitar tutorial I cover Chord triads using 7th chords. Have you ever found that when you are playing guitar that your chords sound a bit BIG and that you’d like to create a bit more space for the other players? Here’s a great solu...
G Blues Variations
Guitar players and other musicians get a little musically stale, you know that feeling when you feel absolutely and totally uninspired? One of the reasons is that it’s easy to be disorganised, sound familiar? Another is because you’re pla...
Twelve Guitar Tips for Getting Rid of Guitar Cobwebs
Many guitar players that I have met have managed to play at very high standard but due to life’s circumstances they found themselves in situations where they virtually stopped playing guitar. It could be because family, disillusionment with the m...
Singer Guitarist Performance Tips
Have you ever been to watch a guitarist play and he/she spend so much time frigging around on the stage before they start playing the first song that you are already wishing you hadn’t bothered going to see them? Regardless whether it be blues,...
Blues Scales Ideas You Never Thought Of
TIRED OF PLAYING THAT SAME OLD BLUES SCALE? In keeping with my secret desire to help raise the standard of guitar players globally, I decided to sit down and write another tutorial for those players that want to extend their playing a little when p...
E Blues Scale Variations
Improve your Blues Guitar playing Blues guitar players. You know when you get a little bit stale with your guitar playing, you find yourself improvising the same as you always have and you feel you want something to help break your habits. Well to...
Guitar Exercise - Finger Crab Walk
To improve your guitar playing you need to get your hands on some good guitar exercises that will help get your fingers play different patterns than what they are used to. Most guitar players get caught in a musical rut because they only play cert...
E Minor 12 bar blues
Learning to play a Twelve Bar Blues is very common. What I’ve done is written out a simple 12 Bar blues but in a minor key instead of using the standard seventh chords. It has a much softer feel than the standard E7 A7 B7. What you will use i...
E Blues Triads made easy
For some guitar players the following article, tab and notation could be some of the most useful material that you have got their hands on in a long time. Don’t be fooled by the simpleness of it. When the penny drops and the light comes on...
