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Wicked Blues Guitar Lick – Key of A

April 5, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Hi everyone, how are you today? Are you still practicing on a regular basis and making small steps forward? Getting better is all about minor improvements over a longer period of time. You just have to be consistent with your practice and make sure you have fun along the way. 💚🥳

Wicked Blues Guitar Lick – Key of A

Today I’ve got a wicked straight up blues lick for you in the key of A. We got some hammer-ons, bend ups, and double stops in there. Another great blues lick to add to your solo vocabulary.

Once you got this blues lick down you can try to play it over a 12 bar blues shuffle.

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this Wicked Blues Guitar Lick:

12 Bar Blues Basic Strumming + Triplet Turnarounds

By Klaus Crow 7 Comments

April 4, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Hi lovely people, I’ve got a 12 Bar Blues Progression for you today with a basic strumming pattern, a basic turnaround and some extra fancy triplet turnarounds to spice things up.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Progression

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

/ E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / A7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 /

The last four bars of the progression function as the turnaround. You can play this by strumming through the pattern / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 / or finish it with a more enhanced turnaround that makes the progression sound really cool. Eventually you want to learn both. If you’re a beginner just start with the basic turnaround.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Strumming Pattern

For the strumming pattern we play: ↓↓↑↑↓↑ “down-down-up-up-down-up” for each bar / measure throughout the entire progression.

Below there’s a video lesson where I explain the entire 12 bar blues with the strumming patten and different blues turnarounds.

Enjoy!

Wonderful Wednesday Blues Lick

By Klaus Crow 4 Comments

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!

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