Blues Guitar

Here you find some tabs for one chorus of cool double stop licks in a blues in G. They work great as a solo or also as rhythm guitar. The backing track is with drum, bass and organ with 60 bpm.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track for a high energy shuffle blues guitar riff. The riff is not a problem but the tempo is...
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Here you find a selection of mixolydian licks in country blues in E which you can use in any country blues or straight blues environment. The backing track is in 85 bpm - slow enough that intermediate players still have a chance to fulfill the task together with the backing track.
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Here you find some tabs to play a puristic minor blues guitar by working only with guitar drum and bass and the guitar playing chords and solo at the same time.
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Here you find some easy blues guitar exercises where you can learn to switch between chords and solo by using the so - called guide tone chords and the G minor pentatonics. The backing track is only drum and bass so that you can focus totally on your guitar part.
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Here you find a very useful play ¦ rest exercises for blues guitar. You find some ideas in the tabs but you can also create your own simple ideas. There are 2 backing tracks - one is with and the other without the guitar.
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Here you find a simple minor blues in the key of Gm. With the exercises written down you can start to get a different vibe into your minor blues guitar solo and start working with modes and arpeggio's. These are some simple exercises which give you a first step into the world of modes.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track of THE slow blues guitar riff played with a drop D tuning.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track to Bo Diddley's signature blues vibe.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track to a great straight minor blues in the key of Gm.
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Here you find some ideas how to play a cool and relaxed bottleneck guitar with a drop D tuning. You can also play it with out bottleneck but try to create the vibe of a bottleneck guitar. The backing track is with a cool acoustic bass and some nice piano.
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Here you find the tabs and the backing track related to the song " Peter Gunn " by Henry Mancini. There are also other versions available but these files refer to the original version. The tabs are the original guitar track as heard on the recording. The theme played by the horns are transcribed to a guitar version.
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Here you find some tabs which show the essentials parts which you need to know to play a professional rock n roll guitar including the rhyhtm guitar and the soloing. The backing track is " Old Time Rock N Roll " by Bob Seger and it's fun to solo over that track.
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Here you find a cool straight blues guitar riff in the key of E. But it's not really the key - since the chords are E7 /  D7 / A7 / B7alt. So you mix the solo with mixolydian ideas and E minor blues pentatonic to make it sound great. I wrote one example how you can mix the modes and create a great and rich sound with only a few notes. The backing track is an original of mine.
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Here you find the tabs of some adaptiv blues guitar double stops. They follow the chords of the progression of the backing track which is :
Bb7 / Eb7 / Bb7 / Eb7
This technique is called " voice leading ". The cool thing is that mostly you only have to change one note to follow the chord which makes it sound great. There are also chord examples which work with a very nice voice leading technique following the chords.
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Here you find some tabs and the backing of a slow blues in G which help you to work on your timing skills on any slow blues. This is challenging for many players since the tempo is very slow with 40bpm and the backing track with an extended form and only with drum and bass. So you better have to know what you are doing on your guitar.
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Here you find one chorus of an example on how to play an easy blues guitar solo over the full fretboard by using the pos. 1 / 2 and 4 of the minor pentatonic. This is sufficient to fulfill the task. The example opens up with a standard opening and then quickly moves on to the high position to then come back to the very low position with a run.
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Here you find a great working sheet to get you advanced shuffle blues guitar nailed. You find the scales which are used and a selection of licks and elements which you can use on the chords A7, D7 and E7. The backing track is a standard shuffle blues in the key of A :
A7 / A7 / A7 / A7
D7 / D7 / A7 / A7
E7 / D7 / A7 / E7
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Here you find the tabs of a very cool blues guitar which you can play on any guitar but it sounds best on a steel string guitar played with finger picking. You also find a cool and simple melody which fits perfect to the cool vibe of this acoustic blues guitar song.
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Here you find some tabs about all basics you need to know about basic blues guitar. It starts with the basic chords, the form, the rhythm and the difference between shuffle and straight blues and then some really basic blues riffs. For the improvisation I made some tabs of a basic blues guitar improvisation with question, answer and resolution + how to make some variations and to play the same thing in a different position.
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Here you find the tabs of Eric Clapton's song " Crossroads " in the original version by Cream. In the tabs you find the rhythm guitar and the backing track is held in 60's style and it's only drums and bass which you also hear in the original version.
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Here you find a selection of mixolydian blues guitar licks which you can use on A7 and D7 or any other chord when you transpose them to the new chord. The backing track is great to practice those licks since it repeats this form here as a vamp : A7 / A7 / D7 / D7
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Here you find some really cool examples of a minor blues riff in the key of Am in combination with some fill-ins. There are 2 backing tracks added. One is only drums and bass and the 2nd one has an organ added if you don't feel confortable with the puristic trio formation.
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Here you find some basic timing exercises where you can practice your timing in shuffle blues guitar. This one is in the key of A and using the very standard blues form. It is very important that you practice this with your foot on 2 & 4 - that's the main goal and that's why the rest seems to be so simple. You can practice this either just with your foot or if you want some " help " with the backing track.
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Here you find a great minor blues backing track in the key of Am. In the tabs you find the chords and the advanced modes which you can use in this minor blues.
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