Archives for March 2022

Wonderful Wednesday Blues Lick

March 31, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Hi folks, I wish you a wonderful Wednesday, and with that a Wonderful Wednesday Blues Lick! This blues lick has got slides, double stops and cool bends. I guess it’s more of an intermediate blues lick, but if you are a beginner and you play it slowly you might can get away with it ;)

Blues Lick in the key of E

We’re playing a blues lick that is derived from the minor pentatonic blues scale and we’re playing it in the key of E. The lick contains the blue note (b5) and the major 6th, which makes it fresh, rich and modern sounding. It’s a pretty damn cool lick. 😎👍

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this Wonderful Wednesday blues lick.

Enjoy!

Easy Basic 12 Bar Blues Shuffle

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

March 28, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Hi folks, today we have an easy and basic 12 Bar Blues Shuffle for beginners. This blues shuffle is the ground work for everything that follows. Once you know how to play this shuffle you’ve got the backbone of blues rhythm guitar and you can work your way up to more sophisticated blues shuffles and rhythm techniques.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Shuffle

This 12 Bar Blues shuffle is in the key of A and moves through the following 12 bar chord progression:

/ A / A / A / A / D / D / A / A / E / D / A / E /

You can play this blues shuffle as a rhythm guitar player or record it as a jam track and play a blues solo over it.

Blues Shuffle Strumming Techniques

You can apply different rhythm techniques to the blues shuffle like basic down strumming and muted strum variations to make the shuffle even more dynamic all of which I will explain in the video lesson.

Below you can find the tablature and video lesson for the Basic 12 Bar Blues Shuffle:

Go get ‘m!

12 Bar Blues Lick – Riff with Blues Turnaround

By Klaus Crow 5 Comments

March 27, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Hi amazing people, today I’ve got 12 Bar Blues Riff / Lick with a blues turnaround for you on the table. It’s it’s raw, groovy and in your face. This is a real nice complete riff blues progression to play on your porch while enjoying the sunset with a cold beer.

12 Bar Blues Riff / Lick + Turnaround

This 12 Bar Blues is in the key of G and moves through 12 bar chord progression. The riff contains hammer-ons and a cool technique to give the blues some extra oomph.

The chord progression is as follows:

/ G7 / G7 / G7 / G7 / C7 / C7 / G7 / G7 / D7 / C7 / G7 / D7 /

A second guitarist could literally play this chord progression while you’re playing the 12 bar blues riff or you could record the progression on your phone and play the riff over the progression.

If you want to know how to play the chords for this progression check out How to Play and Apply Dominant 7th Chords

Below you can find the Tablature and video lesson for this 12 Bar Blues Riff:

Have a great one!

I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2 – Guitar Lesson

By Klaus Crow 6 Comments

March 26, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Today I’m going to teach you how to play one of the greatest classics “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” by U2 from the album “Joshua Tree”.

This is one of the easiest songs for beginners. It is a simplified version of the song, but really fun to play. The song contains 3 open chords and a basic popular strumming pattern that you can use for many others songs as well.

How to Play “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”

The song contains 3 chords: C – Fmaj7 – G

C = x32010

Fmaj7 = xx3210

G = 320003

Here is strumming pattern you can use to play the song:

↓↓↑↑↓↑ = down – down – up – up – down – up

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn this beautiful song.

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