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Music Instruments Blues Guitar

Blues Accelerator - 21 Days to Blues Guitar Mastery

Learn to improvise guitar solos over the 12 bar blues in a variety of blues styles.
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (21 ratings)
131 students
Created by Mark Thomson
Last updated 1/2014
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What you'll learn

  • By the end of the course, you will be able to solo over the 12 bar blues in a variety of styles, from Chicago blues, to a Gary Moore kind of minor blues, and so on.

Requirements

  • An electric guitar, ideally with an amplifier

Description

The aim of Blues Accelerator is to take someone with little formal knowledge about blues guitar playing, and turn them into a confident blues player. The ultimate goal that we're headed towards is the ability to play over the 12 bar blues, which is the bread and butter of any blues musician. If you want to sit in with the real players, you need to have a rock solid grasp on playing over the 12 bar blues....and by the final lesson of this VOl. I, you will have mastered soloing over the 12 bar blues.

Depending on your skill level coming into this course, you might find the first lesson a bit easy. Nevertheless, please follow along. Each lesson in the course builds upon the lesson that precedes it. Skip a lesson, and you risk missing an important aspect of blues soloing.

As the title suggests, you can finish the course in 21 days.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners and Intermediate players

Course content

12 sections • 45 lectures • 7h 4m total length

  • Preview15:25
  • Preview18:31
  • Preview14:54

  • Creating Solos with the notes C - D - F - G
    10:32
  • Technique Training: Alternate Pick or Die
    16:45
  • Groove Video 1
    03:20
  • Ear Training Exercises: Stage 1
    02:11

  • How to Play Vocally
    11:18
  • Technique Training: Two Finger Torture
    03:40
  • Play This Blues Groove
    01:22
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 2
    02:54

  • Hammer of the Gods
    16:27
  • How the Pros Play So Fast
    14:59
  • Watchtower Groove
    02:11
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 3
    02:52

  • The Secret to Great Blues Bends
    17:35
  • Technique Training:Classic Blues Licks
    09:07
  • Today's Groove: Blue on Black
    04:33
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 4
    03:16

  • The Diamond Shape and the Entire 12 Bar Blues
    15:11
  • Technique Training: Sequencing Builds Great Chops
    08:29
  • How to Play the 12 bar Blues Progression
    06:13
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 5
    02:49

  • Mastering the Blue Note
    13:09
  • Technique Training: Blues Note Licks and Advanced Bends
    14:00
  • Cool Blues Groove
    02:44
  • Ear-Training Exersises: Stage 6
    03:34

  • Mastering the B.B. King position
    19:24
  • Technique Training: How to Create Flashy Blues Licks Using Pivoting
    08:50
  • A New Way to Play the 12 Bar Blues Groove
    04:19
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 7
    02:49

  • How to Play Advanced B.B. King Phrases
    17:40
  • Technique Training: Advanced Picking Drills
    11:04
  • A Fingerpicking Blues Groove
    02:20
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 8
    04:16

  • How to Tune Your Guitar to Drop D
    03:09
  • Down 'n' Dirty Back Porch Blues
    19:26
  • Technique Training: Accelerating With Subdivisions of the Beat
    12:20
  • Ear-Training Exercises: Stage 9
    02:53

Instructor

Mark Thomson
Professional Guitar Instructor
Mark Thomson
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 50 Reviews
  • 4,602 Students
  • 3 Courses

I've been a professional teacher my entire adult life. I have taught thousands of people over the years to play all levels and all styles. A music composition major at Arizona State University, I also graduated from L.A.'s Guitar Institue of Technology. In the late 80's I was featured in Guitar Player Magazine's SPOTLIGHT column, and in the early 90's was George Lynch's guitar instructor. (He of DOKKEN fame.) I created George's instructional series for R.E.H. videos and worked with George on other projects. For the most part, though, I was one of the lead instructors at the Music Store in Mesa, Arizona where I taught thousands of students over the years. I currently reside in Sevastopol, Ukraine where I moved to master the Russian language and to share American rock and blues with a part of the world that knows little about it.

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