Fast easy, beginning blues guitar.

Beginning blues guitar. Possibly the most versatile, easy to play form of music for the guitar. With the blues guitar lessons in this section of my site I've assembled some great lessons that make it very easy to get started and you can spend a lifetime building on your skill from here mastering and enjoying the blues.

Do you have to be miserable to play the blues? Although the roots of the blues is pretty miserable if you look into it, it's the lyrics that make the difference if a song is happy or sad, so you can pretty much use the music itself for whatever you are feeling.

So why start with blues guitar? Well people like it.There is something about the blues that moves people like no other music. Crank up your amp add some distortion and all of a sudden you are playing rock and roll. Turn it down and add a few notes from the chromatic scale and you have something that sounds like a pretty good version of jazz. Play it straight and your playing the blues.

This is just the jumping off page to the rest of the blues guitar lessons I've put together. I'll break it into several easy to digest pages.

So where do you start while learning the play blues guitar?

The next 3 links take you step by step to a great start playing the blues.

I've put together blues guitar lessons in 3 steps.

Step 1. A Great place to start is with a simple blues guitar chords for a simple intro 12 bar blues lesson.

Step 2. Next The blues guitar scale patterns - This is where it gets fun. Blues lead guitar.Get these under your fingers (I'll show you a quick way to do it) and it's a short step to blues solo heaven.

Step 3. Next we will go onto the importance of learning blues lead guitar licks from the great blues guitarists that came before you. If you study the blues guitar greats you will find that each one of them studied the Blues guitarists that came before them and then used what they learned from them to create their own sound.

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2. Guitar fretboard - Ever see a Blues guitarist like Eric Clapton play all over the fretboard? You can know exactly where you are on the fretboard too.