Learn Blues Guitar
Learn Blues Guitar here in the HPCrazy Guitar Academy. The Blues Guitar Tutorials are designed to learn the basics of blues, blues improvisation, theory and basic improvisation concepts with the so-called question-answer concept. Beside these basic concepts, more complex blues forms are shown, playing styles of well-known blues guitarists are analyzed, or simply different Blueslicks are shown, with which you can quickly achieve a great professional sounding success with simple means. The tutorials marked with Masterclass are for advanced guitarists.
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Xmas Blues - Guitar Lesson Here you can learn a Xmas Blues which I have composed for you. It works great with the vibe of Xmas. X-Mas Blues.pdf X-Mas Blues.gp xmas blues.mp3
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Dust My Broom ( ELMORE JAMES )- Guitar Lesson Here you can learn the one guitar part of the song " Dust My Broom " by Elmore James. It is played with a bottleneck. So I give you a short introduction into the bottleneck guitar technique and then show you the signature guitar part of this very famous song by Elmore James. For those who don't have a bottle neck I show a version in the 2nd part of the tutorial where you can play it without bottleneck. Dust My Broom.pdf Dust My Broom.gp dust my broom.mp3
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Advanced Blues ( complete beginners course )- Guitar Lesson This is a complete advanced blues course for beginners and intermediate guitar players. If you missed the very basics blues course which you can find here : Here you find the chapters 0:00 Introduction 2:35 Form 11:30 Rhythm 20:57 Scales 33:42 Riffs 40:34 Licks & Improvisation 49:29 HP's Version Form There are different forms possible beside the standard 12 bar blues form. Here it is in the key of A : A7 / A7 / A7 / A7 D7 / D7 / A7 / A7 E7 / D7 / A7 / E7 here's a form with quick change : A7 / D7 / A7 / A7 D7 / D7 / A7 / A7 E7 / D7 / A7 / …
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Corona Blues Project - Guitar Lesson Due to the corona crisis I thought I create this little Corona Guitar Blues here which we all can play to express how we feel about all this which is going on. There are different parts in this blues and there is something for every level to enjoy and to join. It comes in the ballpark of Gary Moore, AC DC, Rose Tattoo and many other great rocking blues artists. Lets start to connect with eachother with this #coronabluesproject – it's simple learn the part which you can play and connect with others which can play the other guitar and then jam with eachother or record a video together and upload your recordings to YouTube, …
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Mixolydian Blues Guitar Licks Done Correctly ! If you want to play the mixolydian scale in blues this is the right tutorial for you. Here I show you how to play a mixolydian blues guitar licks correctly. Understanding the mixolydian scale and how to use it is the key to playing really cool and creative blues guitar licks in any blues guitar setting.The key to understand the method of playing a mixolydian blues guitar licks is to understand what approach notes are. Approach notes approach the chord notes which are the root, the 3rd and 5th chromatically. The approach note on the third is the most important movements are by using the mixolydian scale in a blu…
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Develop Blues Guitar Motivs From Scratch If you want to know how to develop your own really cool blues guitar motifs this is the tutorial for you. Here you can learn how to develop an easy blues motif from scratch by using a motif which is very simple with a note or chord on count 1 and 2+. First to show you how it sounds just with one note. Then I explain to you how to use the motiv with chords and how to make variations by making the first note short in the second one long or the opposite way. After these first exercises we start to make combinations with chords and some single note lines by using the A minor blues pentatonic.At the end we also add some l…
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Easy Funk Blues Guitar Licks Playing at funky blues is a really cool thing to do. You can play very cool licks by just playing a few notes and going with the vibe of a funky blues tune. So the problem is not the notes with your playing since you can play only a few notes, the problem is how to set the timing and the rating of those few notes you're going to play in a funk blues. In this tutorial I show you 4 licks, each with 2 variations where you learn the main rhythm patterns which can be used in a funk blues tune and which really work great and give you a steady and tight timing in your lead guitar. Pay close attention to my instructions about the rhythm …
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Easy Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Here you can learn an easy fingerstyle blues guitar theme which I have created for you. It's pretty easy to play because it's in the key of A and works with a lot of open strings. You can play this tune with fingerstyle, chicken picking by using a pic and your fingers or only with a pic but I strongly recommend fingerstyle because it really gives the right sound and vibe. At the end of the tutorial I play the theme for you and go into improvisation to give you some inspiration - please also check that out. Easy Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues.pdf Easy Acoustic Fingerstyle Blues.gp
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3 Easy Blues Double Time Pro Guitar Licks Many blues guitar players among you probably know the situation - you have a slow blues and when you really want to kick off some really cool doubles time runs in your guita rsolo and you don't know exactly how to do them and then they sound a little bit off timing or you sound like a noodling around on your guitar fretboard. Then this guitar tutorial is for you. Here I show you really easy tricks how to play double time in Slow Blues by using triplets or sextole licks. A triplet is 3 notes per beat and a sextole are six notes per beat. To understand these 2 timing signatures is the main trick you need to know to …
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You want to play Blues and sound like a pro and if you have problems with the key of E then this is a tutorial for you. The key of E is a special key on the guitar since we have open strings on the main pentatonic position number one. There are many players who take advantage of the special sound of this position with a lot of open strings but maybe you don't want to have this so much or you just don't know what to do with the key of E and so I show you three easy licks in the key of E minor were you really can sound like a pro guitarist. The main tick is to know the best sounding spots of any position of the pentatonics and make a combination of them and play over the …
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Blues Chord Improvisation When it comes to Blues chord improvisation everybody would love to be completely free and to improvise with some really cool chords and ideas. In this example I am using chords of the Slow Blues by Mick Taylor. This riff contains 4 chords : E7 A7 / G¦A B7 First I analyze the chords and then the rhythm and then create some simple ideas on which you can develop during your chord improvisation. The trick to any chords improvisation is that you always refer to the original riff by chords and rhythm. You always have to keep the musical form going on in your improvisation even if you only play a very few notes as I am also showing you here …
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Minor Blues Riff Here you can learn my all-time favorite minor blues riff in the key of Am. Minor Blues Riff.pdf
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Easy Pro Major Pentatonic Guitar Licks Here you can learn three easy pro major pentatonic guitar licks. The major pentatonic is very similar to the minor pentatonic. it is not used very often since the guitar is more like a minor instrument but when you have a song in a major key you have to use the major pentatonic. if you don't know the major pentatonic is very easy to achieve. Just move your normal minor pentatonic pattern 3 frets down move the root note the second note of the pattern and there we have it . major pentatonic sound pretty asian style and cheesy if you don't use it the proper way. In this tutorial I show you the three main licks which al…
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Slow Blues ( The Jack Style ) Here you can learn a Slow Blues in the style of “ The Jack “ by ACDC. This is a blues with 60 BPM and in the key of E. First I going to show you the chords and the chord riff which is played and which make the signature sound of this Blues and then I going to show you a simple improvisation with the Question - Answer - Resolution “ concept. The concept works like this : You first play a motive which represents the question then play It again. After that you play the answer then play the question again and at the end comes the resolution. This is the improvisation concept which is used conscious or unconscious in most of the Blues …
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Nasty Blues Rock Here you can learn the main riff of my nasty blues rock tune " Run Bitch Run " - a cool hard driving blues rock played with a drop D tuning. Pretty easy to play and it has a great effect. Here you can listen to the full version of the song : run bitch run.mp3 Run Bitch Run.pdf
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Easy Advanced Slow Blues Concept Here you can learn an easy Advanced Slow Blues concept. in this case it is a Slow Blues in the key of A and its in 50 beats per minute which is very slow. Because this is a very slow blues it is makes sense to have a more complex Blues form to make the whole song sound more interesting. Now the trick to have a very nice soloing in your Slow Blues is to understand the chords the music form and what you can play to those chords. This guitar tutorial shows you a complex Slow Blues form with advanced chords but a easy way to follow those chords and to have a very cool sounding solo guitar with only few notes on this Blues form. So …
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3 Easy Pro Show-Off RocknRoll Guitar Licks Here you can learn three easy pro rock and roll licks which work in a show-off situation on stage. Imagine you are playing in a rock and roll band and now the spotlight is on you. Now you want to show that you're the cool guitar player in this rock and roll bands. Playing in many rock and roll bands in my career I found out that these 3 licks are the ones which work are best in such situation. Situation is a fast straight rock and roll beat between 105 and 130 BPM and you have one till two chorus where you can show what you can play on your guitar. You want to set that you highlight and give more pressure and more e…
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Happy Country Blues Concept Here you can learn a happy Country Blues concept. This is a standard Blues form in G by using a very happy and cool let ring chord riff which follows the chords of these Blues form. So it is essential that you know that form by heart. I'm also showing you a scale which I invented. For this tutorial I call if they're happy country blues scale. But if you break the scale down it's a mixture between the minor blues pentatonic and the major pentatonic scale in G. We are just replacing the 4th note of the minor pentatonic which is the F with a E. The concept is giving you some advice how to play the chord Riff And then mixing it up w…
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Easy Minor Blues Pro Phrasing Tricks Here I am showing you some very easy phrasing tricks way to work great on a minor blues in a medium tempo in the Gary Moore style. I am playing basically two guitar licks where I add those phrasing tricks to make them sound more professional and more sophisticated. 99.9% of all blues guitar solos. start with the very same lick. So it makes sense to learn the tricks how to make that lick sound more sophisticated by using anticipations or moving the timing of the lick around. the trick is that you start on slightly move the starting point by playing either 8 notes or 16 notes. By moving round the timing signature you create …
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Cool Solo Blues Here you can learn an easy to play and cool solo blues in the key of A. You learn the modules which you can fill into the standard blues form : A / D / A / A / D / D / A / A / E / D / A / E Cool Blues.pdf
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Small Blues Rock Chords Here you can learn an alternative way to play chords by using triads on the D,G and B string. They work very well with chrunchy distortion setting such as in Blues Rock. Blues Rock Chords.pdf blues rock riff Am.mp3
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Minor Blues Easy Motives Here you can learn how to develop an easy improvisation with question & anwser in a minor blues. If you have missed the timing variation tutorial I am talking about in this video. Here's the link to it - check it out if you havent done it yet Minor Blues Easy Motives.pdf minor blues Gm.mp3
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Blues Motiv Variation ( Timing ) Here you can learn some simple tricks how you can make timing variations if you want to develop your motives in shuffle blues. Blues Motiv Variations - Timing.pdf shuffle blues A7 only.mp3
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Minor Blues Rock This is a cool guitar master class about Minor Blues Rock – specialy designed for a trio formation. Below you see the different chapters which are included. The first part is easy for everybody the masterclass is not so easy anymore. Intro 0:07 Basic Riff 2:53 Master Class 7:28 Here is the form which is played : A-7 / A-7 / A-7 / A-7 D-7 / D-7 / A-7 / A-7 F13 / E7# / A-7 / E7#9 Minor Blues Rock.pdf minor blues rock Am.mp3
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Forest Blues Here you can learn a nice blues I composed in the forest and which represents the color " green ". It is played with a Drop D tuning. More information about the connection of colors and music on my other website : http://www.farbmusik.com/eng Forest Blues.pdf
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