Blues Guitar

Here you find the tabs of a very cool minor blues guitar riff which is held very minimalistic and in the Rory Gallagher style, meaning that you only play with drum, bass and one guitar. It is quite a challenge to deal with the empty spaces in your playing but for sure it's fun and worth trying. The backing track is in 77 bpm and very cool.
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Here you find the tabs of a very cool blues guitar guitar riff in the key of Bb. Because of the very special voicings of the chords this blues guitar riff sounds like it's played with a dropped tuning or a baritone guitar. In fact it is played with a regular tuned guitar and this drop sound is created with the voicings selected. The backing track is in 60 bpm and is only drum and bass which give you the exact setting to explore your personal Rory Gallagher style. It's cool !
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Here you find a selection of easy blues guitar licks which you can use in a blues in E. All of them are repeating patterns in tripplets and some of them work on all chords in the blues form in E and some of them work only on the specific chord they are played. The ones which work on all chords are displayed in bar no1 in each chorus of the blues guitar solo. All other licks only work inside the form on the specific chord so you need to know the blues form which is played as well which is :
E / E / E / E
A / A / E / E
B / A / E / B
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Here you find the tabs of 3 examples of some delta blues guitar riffs or ideas. The first idea is the riff of " Smokestack Lightning " by Howling Wolf, the 2nd idea is some film music heard in the movie " Walk The Line " and the 3rd idea is a regular bottle neck riff. You can playing any of them along this cool backing track which is basicly " Smokestack Lighting " but it works for any delta blues guitar riff in E.
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Here you find a selection of licks which you can play to the very cool minor blues " Cold Cold Feeling " by Albert Collins. These licks are suggestions what you can play on the intro of the song or during the entire song. The backing track is an own production from my studios ( https://www.music-pictures.com )
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Here you find 3 basic slow blues exercises with double stops which you can use on a blues in G. This blues here has a standard form :
G7 / G7 / G7 / G7
C7 / C7 / G7 / G7
D7 / C7 / G7 / D7
The task in fact is to use those double stops and always know where inside the current blues form you are and after you completed the exercises start to become creative and use any pattern and exercise as long as you stay in the blues form. The backing track is as always my own production and is a blues in G with 80 bpm.
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Here you find the tabs for a very cool summer blues guitar riff in combination with some little ideas in the E minor pentatonics. The backing track is a cool production kinda in a tarantino style with only a snare and an acoustic bass which creates this great and cool summer vibe together with the blues guitar ideas and the cool riff.
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Here you find some tabs with an example of a blues guitar solo where a blues guitar solo shows a dialoge between 2 people represented with the bending on the G-string and the bending on the B-string. I strongly recommend that you watch the tutorial before you work with that example. The backing track is a cool slow blues guitar backing track in the key of D.
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Here you find 3 examples of rock guitar chords in combination with single note lines. The trick is the presicion of your timing so learn those rhythm figures by heart. They seem to be very similar. That's on purpose that you really can work on your timing together with this cool backing track with only bass and drums.
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Here you find a very easy but cool Robben Ford style blues guitar riff which is using a chord voicing which just gets move one fret up oder down and creates a cool blues riff with the progression : E7#9 / A13 / E7#9 / B13.
You can improvise with the E minor blues scale on the E7#9 chord and with that scale including the C# on the A13 chords. On the B13 I recommend using either just the chord notes of the B7 chord or the half tone - full tone scale which sounds great on this specific situation. I have wrote a little example where you can check it out. The backing track is produced in the room of the famous " Bird Land " café in NY.
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Here you find the tabs for a very cool Tarantino style blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. The magic lays in the sound settings of the guitar with a tremolo effect, and analog delays and spring reverb. The backing track is also produced in this analog tarantino style vibe by using a analog spring reverb on the room and tube compressors. The backing track is in 102 bpm.
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Here you find a chorus of cool show off double stop shuffle blues guitar licks which work on a blues in G with a standard form :
G7 / G7 / G7 / G7
C7 / C7 / G7 / G7
D7 / C7 / G7 / D7
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Here you find 2 examples of a basic blues guitar improvisation where you can train your ability to fullfill the Question & Anwser concept which is the core of any blues guitar improvisation. The key is to play and " question - motiv " on the G7, an " anwser - motiv " on C7 and a resolution on D7 / C7 in bar 9 + 10 in the blues form. To make is sound more interesting you make variations of the question and anwser motives while you move on in the blues form. The backing track is a production out of my studio with 70 bpm.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of a wonderful melodic major blues guitar tune in the key of D. In the tabs you find 2 different guitars which work perfect together in a duo setting. The backing track is only the first guitar and is played with 70 bpm.
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Here you find the chords, the modes and an example of a minor blues in the key of Cm. Here you can figure out the chords and which modes you can use on those chords and finally you find a simple example how in fact you use those modes in a practical situation. The backing track is in 70 bpm.
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Here you find 3 exercises which shall help you to master a slow blues by playing chords and solo's in combinations. The key is that you work out structures and train them. Here I have written some easy and basic structures with combinations of chords and solo's. First you learn one after each other and then you make the combinations of them. It is crucial that you know the form of the blues by heart and follow the chords while you are playing :

Am7 / Dm7 / Am7 / Am7 /
Fmaj7 / E7 / Am7 Dm7 / Fmaj7 E7
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Here you find the tabs of 4 repeating licks in the chuck berry style. The trick is that you have a figure of 3 in 8th notes which makes the accent move till the circle is completed after 3 bars. The backing track is a typical rock n roll tune in the key of G with 106 bpm.
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Here you find some easy chord variations which you can use on a slow blues in the key of G. In this case the chord progression is :
G / C / G / G
C / C / G / G
D / C / G / D
The backing track is in 70 bpm so that you have enought time to think about the chords.
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Here you find the tabs of one chorus blues improvisation by using the mixolydian mode in combination with some minor pentatonic phrases on a slow blues in the key of D with the following chords _
D / G / D / D
G / G / D / D
A / G / D / A
The backing track is in 55 bpm so you have a nice slow blues where you can focus on the chords and the mixolydian phrases.
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If you want to learn this tasty slow blues guitar riff you find the tabs here :

Here you find a very cool selection of basic slow blues guitar licks which you can use in any blues or slow blues in the key of A. The backing track is 47 bpm and from my own production and is really fun to play.
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Here you find a few technical exercises and some very basic licks which help you to start with your very first solo in slow blues. In this case it's a minor blues in Am but those licks and exercises also work on any slow blues guitar track. The backing track is on 47bpm.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of a very cool high intensity minor blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning. The tempo is 60 bpm and you can practice it with the backing track which is only drum and bass.
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Here you find a cool selection of easy but advanced blues blues guitar licks in a standard blues in the key of A with 55 bpm. The backing track of course is a own production and is a standard blues form in A with quick change.
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Here you find some really cool slow blues guitar licks for a blues in the key of D. The backing track is on 55bpm so it's really slow.
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Here you find the tabs of the rhythm guitar of Peter Greens ( Fleetwood Mac ) blues " Need Your Love So Bad ". Beside that you find a backing track which I produced exactly in the style how productions were back then in the late 60's.
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