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Here you find a great blues guitar exercise to learn to work with the form of any blues. This one is a bit an unusual form which shall engage you to really learn to count the bars during playing. In the first part the regular form is played with a riff which you need to learn by heart and you need to learn whatever you play that this form always is also in your mind during playing. The 2nd part is a Play - Rest exercise. You improvise something with the E minor pentatonic for one bar and then you play the riff which comes at that spot of the form of this blues. It's easier when you first just learn the examples I wrote for you. The 3rd part is the opposite exercise with Rest - Play. There is an audio track of the tabs for you to help you to keep track on the entire exercise and the backing track is added too. It's only drum and bass so you really need to know in your mind where exactly in the form you are. Counting the bars helps at the beginning. The more you dive into the topic the more you should be able to feel where exactly you are in that blues form. These files are associated to this tutorial here :

Here you find the tabs & the audio original file which I recorded for you of an open blues guitar tune of mine. It's really very simple to play from the technical part but to put in the feeling and the open time which is needed might take some practice. There is no timing on this tune - just think about telling a story with your guitar. Theses tabs are associated to this tutorial here :