robin623 Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 I would like to start learning some blues guitar, but have no idea of going about it. I don't have time to go to an actual lesson. Any ideas on where to start? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKro Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Try this, Steve Krenz puts out some good work.My Nephew has learned a lot from his DVD's http://www.learningtheblues.com/learn-and-master-blues-review Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Our Souls inc. Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Get sad. Express yourself with your guitar. That is all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ripthorn Posted October 9, 2012 Report Share Posted October 9, 2012 Make sure to make the painful pinched face whenever you bend a note, with the face pinching proportional to the amount of the bend. Additionally, there is a guy on youtube that does some interesting stuff with his four note blues. Then again, he's only excluding one note from the minor pentatonic, but still, he's got some nice licks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim37 Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Make sure to make the painful pinched face whenever you bend a note, with the face pinching proportional to the amount of the bend. feel the music 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonbat13 Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Learn 12 bar blues, learn the pentatonic scale. Practice pentatonic scale on top of a repetition of an e chord then an a chord back and forth. After that put in a CD of whatever blues musician you like. Try on every song on the CD. You will find one that is easy for you to mess around with the pentatonic scale. Also dont worry about learning all the blocks of the scale, just the one used most, which is the only block pattern where half the notes are on the same fret on each string (in a straight line). If you try those things and are rather sucessful, then just keep practicing and maybe find a few licks you like. If it makes no sense to you then your gonna have to find some sort of lesson on DVD or something. I learned it off of a very old lesson that you could get in guitar for the practicing musician called "Metal Method". I doubt you will find it. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fool Guy Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 Truefire have loads of great blues instruction courses ranging from beginner to advanced. You can watch samples of every course on the website. Very good value for money IMHO http://truefire.com/...guitar-lessons/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR Posted October 10, 2012 Report Share Posted October 10, 2012 I liked this one: http://www.amazon.com/Blues-You-Can-Use-BLUES/dp/B0029PVCS8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349874502&sr=8-1&keywords=blues+you+can+use SR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Workingman Posted October 11, 2012 Report Share Posted October 11, 2012 Listen to the blues. Books and DVD's can teach you patters and licks but to sound like the blues you have to learn phrasing and for that you have to listen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WezV Posted October 13, 2012 Report Share Posted October 13, 2012 buy a resonator and a slide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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