Welcome to the Electric Blues in 6 Weeks Guitar course. This course is designed to focus your practice towards realistic goals achievable in six weeks. Each week provides you with techniques, concepts and licks to help you play and understand blues soloing at a manageable easy to follow pace. Three licks in the style of a featured artist are taught each week to help you towards playing in real musical situations and develop an ear for the differences between players. If you have been frustrated or intimidated by other educational material this course is for you. You will see...

MJS – Easy Blues Guitar. Blues Guitar Lessons for Beginner Through Intermediate. If you want to learn to play Blues Guitar, look no further – You have found the ultimate course with Easy Blues Guitar DVD! Expert guitar instructor Mark John Sternal starts you out with simple power chords, riffs, tricks and techniques that form the backbone of Blues Guitar. Each lesson is introduced with thorough and descriptive instructions, followed by a slowed-down practice section which will insure that anyone, at any level, can play each exercise. These exercises are later combined to form complete Blues Songs. Each Blues...

Modal Expose is NOT another one of those jazzer’s mode courses or a thick theoretical syllabus; Modal Expose is simply a very accessible approach for first identifying a progression’s tonal center and then crafting great sounding solos, which leverage the characteristic tones within that progression. Simple as that. If you already know what a major scale is and can play it in any key, you are good to go. First, Calvo shows you the seven modes that live within the seven notes of that scale. Next, Calvo reveals how the major, minor, dominant and diminished arpeggios and chords are...

Richard Van Bergen’s 50 Down Home Blues Licks You MUST Know is an impeccable collection of authentic, timeless licks respectfully inspired from the bonafide masters of the blues. It’s also a veritable music history course in swamp pop, boogie-woogie, rhythm & blues and early Chicago blues. Richard guides you through the fretboard dialects of blues artists who pioneered the evolution of pre-war country blues in swampy Louisiana to the electric blues explosion that followed in the smoky blues clubs of Chicago, Houston and Detroit. You’ll recognize many of the artists that Richard pays homage to in this collection; Albert...

There’s no hiding behind a slow blues. That’s the bad news. The good news is you don’t need fancy fretwork, blazing technique, nuclear effect racks, or a giant Marshall wall to pull it off either. All you need is soul, a pair of good ears and a versatile vocabulary of slow blues lines and moves. You bring the former to the table and Anthony Stauffer will deliver the latter in this collection of 50 Slow Blues Licks You MUST Know. Anthony organized the collection into five groups representing the five most common styles of slow blues tunes. You’ll not...

Scheetz travels the world over demonstrating his “secret sauce” in private standing-room-only clinics. The collection of blues-rock video guitar lessons in Jeff’s Blues Rock: Secret Sauce course equips you with five essential concepts and techniques that you can apply in any blues-rock setting. Blues Rock: Secret Sauce teaches you how to slip “outside” and back again and how to incorporate and pull off intervallic lines in your solos. You’ll also learn the ins and outs of dynamic phrasing, melodic playing and modal playing – all with an emphasis on how to create and play tasty, original solos and comps....

Thousands of blues tunes draw on the core foundation of grooves and rhythm patterns spawned during the electric blues renaissance of the 50s and 60s. Unlike other genres of music from that time, there’s nothing nostalgic about these grooves — these same grooves and rhythm patterns have been used by every generation of blues player since right up to modern times. “Authentic” is the best way to describe them and Jeff McErlain’s 30 Authentic Blues Grooves You MUST Know is the best way to learn them. For inspiration, Jeff dug deep into the music of Muddy Waters, Elmore James,...

Expand your electric rhythm guitar prowess with Adam Levy’s Rhythm Makeover and be sure to check out Muriel Anderson’s Rhythm Makeover for fingerstyle and Vicki Genfan’s Rhythm Makeover for acoustic guitar. Thousands of #1 hit records use the same handful of chord progressions. So, what makes those songs so distinctive from one another? Melody, lyrics and production values are all very important of course, but rhythm is what gets the feet tapping, the bodies moving and the lips smiling. Whether they perform in bands, duos or solo as a singer-songwriter, guitarists play rhythm 95% of the time supporting the...

Andy equips you with the three most important skills you need to take to the stage; command of the popular song list, a diverse rhythm guitar vocabulary, and the ability to improvise solos over popular song progressions. 1. Command of the Popular Song List There are really only 30 or so songs that are called over and over again at the local jams — they’re the ‘standards’ of rock and popular music. You don’t need to learn them note-for-note like you would for a cover, but you do need to be familiar with their basic structure. 2. Diverse Rhythm...

Andy covers a diverse range of soloing styles and techniques within the context of eight different key centers (E, F, G, A, Bb, C and D). Each key center series of lessons features different forms, feels and progressions and includes performances and detailed breakdowns covering requisite techniques, solo development, improvisation and application of theory. The soloing examples demonstrate a wide spectrum of both right- and left-hand articulation techniques, phrasing concepts and the stylistic signatures that are found in the playing of all blues guitar masters, ranging from Albert King, B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Buddy Guy, and Freddie King, to...