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Here you find some easy blues guitar exercises where you can learn to switch between chords and solo by using the so - called guide tone chords and the G minor pentatonics. The backing track is only drum and bass so that you can focus totally on your guitar part. These files are associated to this tutorial :

Here you find a very useful play ¦ rest exercises for blues guitar. You find some ideas in the tabs but you can also create your own simple ideas. There are 2 backing tracks - one is with and the other without the guitar. These files are associated to this tutorial :

Here you find some basic timing exercises where you can practice your timing in shuffle blues guitar. This one is in the key of A and using the very standard blues form. It is very important that you practice this with your foot on 2 & 4 - that's the main goal and that's why the rest seems to be so simple. You can practice this either just with your foot or if you want some " help " with the backing track. These files are associated to this tutorial :

Here you find a selection of 3 shuffle blues guitar riffs with some variations in A7. One version is with an open string chord and the other version is using the powerchord. You can use any of those riffs in any key or any chords by just adapting them to the the new chord. I have added 2 chorus of a standard blues in A so that you can see how you can work with all these examples. The backing track is only drum and bass playing the standard blues form in A. These files are associated to this tutorial :

Here you find a selection of 3 straight blues guitar riffs with some variations in A7. One version is with an open string chord and the other version is using the powerchord. You can use any of those riffs in any key or any chords by just adapting them to the the new chord. I have added 2 chorus of a standard blues in A so that you can see how you can work with all these examples. The backing track is only drum and bass playing the standard blues form in A. These files are associated to this tutorial here :

Here you find a great blues guitar exercise to learn to work with the form of any blues. This one is a bit an unusual form which shall engage you to really learn to count the bars during playing. In the first part the regular form is played with a riff which you need to learn by heart and you need to learn whatever you play that this form always is also in your mind during playing. The 2nd part is a Play - Rest exercise. You improvise something with the E minor pentatonic for one bar and then you play the riff which comes at that spot of the form of this blues. It's easier when you first just learn the examples I wrote for you. The 3rd part is the opposite exercise with Rest - Play. There is an audio track of the tabs for you to help you to keep track on the entire exercise and the backing track is added too. It's only drum and bass so you really need to know in your mind where exactly in the form you are. Counting the bars helps at the beginning. The more you dive into the topic the more you should be able to feel where exactly you are in that blues form. These files are associated to this tutorial here :

Blues Guitar - Triplet Studies : Tabs & Backing Track Here you find a selection of exercises where you can practice triplets on a blues in A. The riffs which are displayed can just be moved to D or E when you want to practice then to the whole blues form. The licks and melody lines work at any spot of the backing track. The backing track is just drum and bass over the standard 12bar blues form in A. These files are associated to this tutorial here :