Last Updated on May 12, 2019 by Klaus Crow
Playing “walking blues lines” is a common thing for bass players, but also guitar players do not shy away from a nice walking blues shuffle riff.
The blues shuffle riff is a popular sound and often used by guitar players like T-Bone Walker (Going to Chicago, T-bone Shuffle) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (Cold shot, Pride and joy, Travis walk).
While blues rhythm guitar suffices with a standard 12 bar blues shuffle, a cool shuffle riff is often more fun to play and interesting listen to.
Also for the blues lead guitar player it’s great to solo over a blues shuffle riff. The combination of a cool lead solo improvisation and a nice blues shuffle riff will lift the music to greater heights.
Today we have 5 Cool blues shuffle riffs to get your hands dirty. Starting out with a nice & easy shuffle riff gradually leading up to more challenging riffs. A video lesson and tablature is provided for each shuffle riff.
Enjoy!
Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 1
Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 2
Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 3
Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 4
Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 5
If you want to learn to solo over these cool blues shuffle riffs, learn to play cool blues licks, create your own licks, really dive into the blues scale shape/positions, learn the tricks and tools to master the Pentatonic / Blues Scale inside out, and solo and improvise over the entire neck, check out: 50CoolBluesLicksImprovisation
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Thanks man. I just had an epiphany thanks to this lesson, progressed my playing more in twenty minutes than the last couple of years.
what guitar are you using?
I want to know if I can get the 50 cool blues guitar riffs in DVD format. If not is there an end point ( expiration ) time if I go the digital internet route ?????
Hi Charlie,
There is no DVD format, The 50CoolBluesLicks is a downloadable guitar course.
So you download and save the course to your computer.
Best,
Klaus Crow
Hi
Part of his question was unanswered. Is there an expiration on the download license? Thanks
Hi Greg,
There was no expiration date on the download license, but I’ve changed
the 50CoolBluesLicks downloadable course to an Online Course, so you can
learn the 50CoolBluesLicks course from anywhere and on any device (computer, laptop, tablet and phone).
If you have any questions just let me know.
Best,
Klaus Crow
hey man you are 1 of the best teachers i came across. c an you teach how to play reggae.
Hi Klaus…love your lessons! I’m getting into blues now. My friend heard you doing riff no 5, bar 2 section and says you perform a rake, two notes, and then the hammer on, so the tab is different to what you play. I am not sure. Can you clarify? Btw we have wagered an ice cream on this.