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Easy Blues Guitar Crash Course
Rating: 4.6 out of 5(31 ratings)
216 students
Created byDan Dresnok
Last updated 9/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • Real blues guitar.
  • Blues in several keys.
  • Strumming with a swing feel.
  • Popular blues soloing methods.
  • Major & minor blues.
  • Blues terms.
  • Turnaround riffs.

Course content

2 sections22 lectures2h 54m total length
  • Welcome to the Course11:13
  • Tuning Your Guitar10:02

    We'll learn the traditional way of tuning the guitar by ear.

  • Chords - E7 A7 B72:57
  • 12-Bar Blues2:53
  • Triplet Feel3:20
  • Swing Feel3:47
  • Blues in E6:05
  • The I IV V Change4:21
  • Turnarounds: Walkups & Walkdowns9:33
  • Blues Soloing12:10
  • Blues in G5:50
  • Blues in C3:32
  • Blues in A5:47
  • Minor Blues20:58

Requirements

  • This course is for everyone - including complete beginners.
  • You only need a guitar - any guitar with six strings.

Description

Welcome to Easy Blues Guitar Crash Course. This is a complete beginner guitar course that will quickly have you playing real blues guitar. You'll learn the chords and structure of major Delta-style blues, the rhythm & strumming of the swing feel, the basic blues terms, turnaround riffs, ways to embellish your chords, and how to properly solo over blues progressions & songs!

Any kind of six-string guitar will work well for this course - electric, acoustic, or classical guitar.

Even though most blues only has three chords, there are endless possibilities for chord variations & soloing. You'll learn important blues theory so you can always get the most out of your chords & solos.

Many of these lessons have a PDF attachment. These PDFs are the tabs, chords, and text lessons. You can download, save, & print these. Be sure to get all the PDFs.

The sections in this course are:

Blues Guitar Lessons - These are the main lessons for this course. Here, you'll find all of the tools you'll need to understand, play, and jam blues guitar by yourself or with others.

Jam Tracks - These are blues backing tracks in various keys with chord charts and solo diagrams on the screen. This section is for you to practice everything that you've learned in the Blues Guitar Lessons section. This is the fun part of playing blues guitar - the actual jamming!

I'm glad you're here - let's begin.

Who this course is for:

  • Guitarists wanting to learn real blues guitar.
  • Complete beginners.
  • Guitarists who love the blues.