Blues Ensemble

This video shows you four ways of using material we’ve looked at in lessons. In the top left corner you can follow the low part for Green Onions. In the top right corner you can follow the high part for Green Onions (notation below). In the bottom right, you can play all the way around…

Wasted Days

This is lively piece that will help you get good at navigating up and down the fretboard, finding different frets, and building up your picking skills.

Take each two bar section, start by finding the numbered frets and play only those notes, five to ten times round. Then add in the open strings and repeat the…

Blues bass line

This catchy blues riff fits a standard twelve bar blues, and it will fit with another guitarist playing Blues guitar parts like a Blues Boogie or Green Onions. Together these parts will sound really good. Play it slowly first, especially when you’re working on getting between finger 4 and finger 1. Finger 4 might feel…

Create Your Own Song – Combining Chords

We’ve already seen many times how many songs use similar chords all the way through, and many songs work well using just a few chords. We’re going to look at one way of putting a song structure together. 

You need some chords and you need some rhythms, and you need some ways of experimenting with fitting…