Traditional Acoustic Blues Guitar - For Beginners
What you'll learn
- Play traditional-style acoustic blues using both an alternating & monotonic bass pattern - and, in a variety of keys.
Requirements
- Students need a guitar and an interest in playing acoustic blues from the 1920s and 1930s.
Description
In this course you will learn how to play blues on the acoustic guitar as it was done on the recordings of the 1920s and 1930s. We will start by learning the basic concepts needed to understand this style of guitar playing - mainly the alternating and monotonic bass lines. Then I will teach you all of the basic chords needed to play acoustic blues guitar and give you a number of practice exercises to help you learn and master each one. In the main part of the course, I will teach you 25 different acoustic blues songs - five in each of the most commonly used keys. This will allow you to apply what you have learned and learn the nuances of playing in each key. The songs covered are:
Key of C
- "Ella Speed" by Mance Lipscomb
- "East St. Louis Blues" by Blind Willie McTell
- "Ain't No Tellin' " by Mississippi John Hurt
- "I'm Busy and You Can't Come In" by Sylvester Weaver (Instrumental)
- "Hesitation Blues" by Reverend Gary Davis
Key of E
- "Groundhog Day Blues" by Lil' Son Jackson
- "Mojo Hand" by Lightning Hopkins
- "Annie's Boogie" by Lightning Hopkins (Instrumental)
- "Sugar Babe" by Mance Lipscomb
- "Key to The Highway" by Big Bill Broonzy
Key of A
- Robert Johnson Style in A
- "Keep Away From My Woman" by Blind Boy Fuller
- "Blues Come to Texas" by Lil' Son Jackson
- "Coffee Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt
- "Moppers Blues" by Big Bill Broonzy
Key of D
- "Stack O' Lee" by Mississippi John Hurt
- "Big Road Blues" by Tommy Johnson
- "Canned Heat" by Tommy Johnson
- "Old Country Rock" by WIlliam Moore (Instrumental)
- "Chump Man Blues" by Blind Blake
Key of G
- "Step It Up and Go" by Blind Boy Fuller
- "Love In Vain" by Robert Johnson
- "Casey Jones" by Mississippi John Hurt
- "That'll Never Happen No More" by Blind Blake
- "Bye Bye Baby" by Little Hat Jones
Each lesson teaches the basic song plus any chords, introductions, fill-licks, bridges, solos, and end tags!
When you are finished with this course, you should be well on your way to being able to play authentic country blues guitar and figure out more songs on your own!
Make no mistake here - you are getting a shi#load of instruction for the money!!!!
Basic TABS are included for each lecture. I am just getting started with Guitar Pro 7. Please note that I do not TAB out the entire songs in this series! I only TAB out what I teach. The TABS are very basic, but accurate. I plan on revising and adding to the TABS for this lesson as I become more skilled with the GP7 software. Let me know what you think!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to learn to play traditional acoustic blues on the guitar.
Instructor
![David Moore](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 423 Reviews
- 1,825 Students
- 8 Courses
Dave Moore is a high school history teacher who has spent most of his adult life playing and studying traditional electric and acoustic blues guitar. Over the years, Dave has played with such blues legends as Pinetop Perkins, the late Barrelhouse Chuck, Big Time Sarah, Ricky Nye, country blues legend Yank Rachel, saxophonist Ab Locke, and the Cleveland area band Blue Lunch. For the past ten years, Dave has maintained a popular You Tube Channel offering lessons in both traditional acoustic and electric blues guitar - Old School Blues Guitar.
With 30 years of classroom experience, Dave is an accomplished instructor who excels at making things simple and easy to understand for all of his students. If you want to learn how to play a ton of traditional blues guitar, for a reasonable price, this is the instructor for you!