Blues Guitar Lessons

By Cinvet Surresel


The blues are a unique style of playing guitar that digs its roots deep back into black slavery in America. This unique form of guitar scales have sense of soul and bellowing sorrow to them, which is why they're called the blues. If you want to learn the blues, first you must have a good foundation in learning the fundamentals in knowing your basic scales as well as chords.

Before you can develop speed on your fingers, first you need to know where your fingers need to hit the strings just right. If you want to study how to execute the blues properly on your guitar, you must already have a somewhat decent background in your major musical scales and have form certain dexterity with moving your fingertips around like a sweeping pattern.

If ever in doubt and you have an internet connection, check net for a pattern on how to execute the blues scale. If you're having trouble knowing what you're looking for, a scale is basically a progression of single string plucks on your guitar that usually starts from the bass strings and ends with the higher string. If you know the pattern already, do so first in the regular sweeping pattern then alternate by inverting it as you climb up to the high bass strings.

The blues may seem completely improvised at a listen, and in fact - it is, but no matter how improvised it follows a rigid timing that demands not only accuracy, but also a knowledge of how to branch out riffs. As you gain speed, you'll get the general feel of it and you're on your way to improving.

Now, you can listen and even watch your favorite videos over cyberspace or some guitar tab website for chords to your favorite song unlike the musicians before hit of technology and cyberspace. The internet is a vast vault of data that is just perfect for you guitar lesson needs




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