How To Play Blues Guitar

If you want to learn how to play blues guitar, you first need to do the following:

1: Memorise the standard 12-bar blues chord pattern and learn how to play it in any key.

2: Memorise the Blues Scale and learn how to play it in the same key as the chords.

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If you're a beginner and you don't know your 7th chords, you can play plain old major chords, or have a look at the Chords Chart page.

Ok, very basic stuff to start with. The following is the standard 12-bar blues chord pattern in the key of G.

The next is a very common variation of it.

Learn How to Tranpose to any key.

Learn the Blues Scale

The following improvised blues solos are quite simple but still require some skill in playing techniques.

Blues solo 1

Blues solo 2

Blues solo 3

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