In this guitar lesson, you’ll learn how to play an up-tempo bluesy sounding rhythm in the key of A. This is a great lesson for practicing strumming and timing, complete with up-strokes, down-strokes and muted strums. This lesson works on acoustic or electric guitar, no effects are needed. There are 2 versions of the MP3 jam track provided, one at normal tempo, and one that’s at a much slower tempo for those of you that are new to this style of strumming. … [Read more...]
Blues Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – EP040
I’m always trying to find more interesting ways to play both rhythm and lead when playing the blues and it seems that there are endless combinations of styles for either. This lesson is split into 2 parts, the first part shows you how to play the funk rhythm part. Also included are 3 versions of the jam track in different keys, so that you can practice playing that rhythm in various keys. The second part breaks down the Eric Clapton / Buddy Guy inspired lead which has a lot of dramatic bends. … [Read more...]
Blues Rhythm and Lead Guitar Lesson – LEG007
I asked the question on Facebook what type of lesson should I create next? And a few people responded that they would like a lesson on how to make a more interesting rhythm, by mixing in some lead licks at the same time. I grabbed my guitar and came up with a really cool way to play a slow blues rhythm / lead part in the key of A. This is a combination of various artists licks including Eric Clapton and Albert King. The nice thing about learning how to play this way is that you can play all … [Read more...]
The Double Stop: A Blues Rhythm / Lead Guitar Lesson – LEG008
So what the heck is a double stop anyway? It’s really just a fancy way of saying, “2 strings at once” – not really sure what the “stop” part has to do with anything (if someone knows feel free to leave a comment). So in addition to double stops there are also triple and quadruple stops as well – but the double stop is the most common on guitar. When I think of playing double stop guitar solos on the guitar, I almost automatically think of Chuck Berry. He had a great way of playing really … [Read more...]
Blues / Rock Rhythm Guitar Lesson (Key of A) – LEG018
In this lesson I show you how to play a standard driving blues/ rock rhythm on an electric guitar (I'm going to focus on interesting guitar rhythms for the next few lessons). I played this with an electric guitar with overdrive, however, that isn't required to play a rhythm like this - you could use clean channel on electric or even acoustic and still be able to play this rhythm. The key to getting the fat "chunky" sound is to use palm muting with your right hand (which I'll demonstrate in the … [Read more...]
