Free Blues Guitar Lessons

You'll find over 60 free blues guitar lessons in this section. The most recent lessons are listed here. Links to the complete index, and free lesson categories are in the right column.

Entries in ElevenRack (5)

Friday
Oct142011

Freddie King Texas Guitar Boogie

Learn the boogie rhythm featured in one of the most popular Freddie King videos on YouTube. No picks, just your fingers. A simple rhythm, but very difficult to play.

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Friday
Sep232011

SRV Box 1 Continuous Vibrato

When playing in Box 1, especially during slow blues songs, Stevie Ray Vaughan would do this thing where he's pause on several notes during his descent, putting heavy vibrato on whenever he paused. That's what we'll look at in this lesson.

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Friday
Sep092011

Chris Duarte Lick Lesson - Letter To My Girlfriend

One of my favorite tracks from Chris Duarte's Texas Sugar/Strat Magik album is his cover of "Letter To My Girlfriend". His take on the song featured a slightly different timing and feel to the opening lick. That is what you'll learn in this lesson.

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Friday
Apr292011

That SRV Voodoo Chile' Sliding Lick

In this lesson I break down that sliding lick that SRV did on his cover of the Jimi Hendrix tune "Voodoo Chile' (Slight Return)". The focus of the lesson is the different techniques that are used to descend and ascend the fretboard on the G string, without using your pick. All the energy in the string comes from slides, hammer-ons, and pull-offs.


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Friday
Apr152011

Funky Blues Rhythm Lesson

In this lesson I teach you a funky 12-bar blues rhythm. The rhythm uses a call and response beween the low notes and the high notes of the chords. A bit of sliding and some syncopation give it a funky sound.

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