Blues Guitar For Beginners

Looking to learn electric blues guitar? This beginner blues guitar lessons series is designed for you! If you've tried playing before but got discouraged, this is the perfect way to finally master the blues.

Blues Guitar for Beginners offers a fast-track approach, getting you playing cool blues moves in your very first week – without getting bogged down in complicated music theory, scales, or endless exercises. Specifically tailored for adults with busy schedules, this course focuses on practical skills, skipping the formalities and diving straight into the fun.

You'll learn how to play blues chords, master essential strums, develop your rhythm guitar skills, and build a powerful vocabulary of blues licks.

Your instructor, David Hamburger, is a seasoned blues guitar expert and TrueFire instructor. A frequent performer at festivals like Merle Fest and with artists like Joan Baez and Duke Robillard, David is also a contributing editor for Acoustic Guitar and the author of the award-winning "Beginning Blues Guitar."

Starting from the very basics, David will guide you through:

• Tuning your guitar
• Proper pick holding technique
• Playing your first blues notes
• Strumming with both downstrokes and upstrokes
• Picking in time for a solid groove
• Achieving clean chords
• Exploring a variety of chord progressions
• Developing blues-based single-note riffs

Visual aids like on-screen chord diagrams and beat counters keep you on track, while jam tracks for every lesson make practice enjoyable. Play along with David and the practice rhythm tracks to improve your timing and feel.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to confidently play both rhythm guitar and lead guitar parts for classic blues styles, including the Chicago shuffle, Texas shuffle, eight-bar blues, shuffle boogie, and even some 50s R&B. Start your journey to becoming a confident blues guitarist today!