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April 22, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Dear friends of Guitarhabits,
I am happy to see that a lot of people are enjoying the free quality guitar lessons on Guitarhabits and I really enjoy creating those lessons, videos and guitar articles on the website. It’s a true pleasure.

Who is behind Guitarhabits?

I’m Klaus Crow and Guitarhabits.com is just run by me. I started this website in 2009 and have built it with passion and hard work over many years. As a result the website managed to get a good position on Google, so people could find Guitarhabits worldwide. With the help of ads on the website and my 50CBL course I could always sustain and maintain the website.

Adapting to fast changes

Since 2021 there have been dramatic and fast changes in the Google SEO landscape. I have been working hard trying to keep up and adapt to these new SEO changes, along with maintaining the website, creating new content and videos (which is a challenge to say the least), to make the free lessons in clear sight on Google for anyone who wants to learn to play guitar, be motivated and inspired.  

To keep Guitarhabits alive and growing it is urgent and essential to have a fast website for the audience without the ads getting in the way to maintain its existence within the new Google SEO landscape.

The future of Guitarhabits

So, I’m looking for someone who believes in Guitarhabits and wants to support me to preserve all the hundreds of beautiful free quality guitar lessons on the website, so I can keep creating, improving, expanding and grow the website for all you awesome guitar players out there.

If you think Guitarhabits deserves a chance to sustain and grow and you want to help out with a sponsorship and have a serious offer please let me know.

If you’re interested send an email to info@guitarhabits.com and put “Sponsorship Guitarhabits” in the subject.

Warm regards, 
~Klaus Crow

12 Bar Blues Variation + Exquisite Turnaround

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April 19, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Ladies & gentleman, today we’re going to expand on the easy 12 Bar Blues Shuffle with a Shuffle variation and an exquisite blues turnaround. You’re gonna have a blast!

12 Bar Blues Variation + Exquisite Turnaround

With this 12 Bar blues variation we’re adding an extra finger to the easy blues shuffle and make it feel even more bluesy and alive finishing the riff with a really fun turnaround that will make you look cool to your peers, no matter how old you are ;)

Below you can find the tablature and the video lesson for this little project.

The Pentatonic Coffee Blues Lick

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April 13, 2022 by Klaus Crow

It’s coffee time! This morning I was playing the blues on my guitar while drinking my oh so delicious dutch “Douwe Egberts” coffee and came up with this neat basic blues lick. The Coffee Blues Lick was born.

The Pentatonic Coffee Blues Lick

The coffee blues lick is in the key of A and is derived from the pentatonic scale with an added 3rd and major 6th note. It’s a real tasty but still fairly easy lick to play. You can play the lick over a 12 bar blues shuffle or a basic 12 bar blues chord progression. A great lick for beginners and intermediate guitar players.

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

Enjoy!

To Love Somebody Guitar Lesson

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April 11, 2022 by Klaus Crow

Today I’m going to teach you one of my favorite songs “To Love Somebody” by The Bee Gees. This song is covered by lots of people including Janis Joplin, Michael Bolton and my favorite cover version by Damien Rice & Ray La Montagne.

To Love Somebody – Guitar Lesson

I’ll teach you the most simplified version of this song, so it’s going to be in the key of D. The chords for this song are D – G – Em – C – A.

I will teach you two different strumming patterns, a very common strumming pattern for this type of song and a simplified strumming pattern for beginners.

common strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓↓↑ = down – down – up – up – down – down – down – up 

Simple strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓ = down – down – up – up – down – down  

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn this amazing song. This is a must-learn-song! ;)

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