August 16, 2021
In
Blues
Practice
Tagged as
12 bar blues
Blues
blues shuffle
Guitar teacher
learning guitar
By
Dan Thorpe
3 Random Thoughts This Monday (Blues Shuffle, a Paradox, and a Quiz!)
Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, inlcuding blues shuffle, a paradox, and more. Here we go…
August 11, 2016
In
Blues
Chords
Tagged as
12 bar blues
blues guitar
blues shuffle
Chord Progressions
power chords
By
Dan Thorpe
2
How to play a 12 bar blues chord progression (just like Marty Mcfly)
As promised after the recent survey, I’ll be more creating a few more blog posts and videos on the blues—particularly acoustic fingerstyle blues. To get started with the blues you really need to be 100% comfortable with the structure, otherwise it will all fall apart quicker than you can say “my baby gone left me”.
In today’s blog post, I’ll teach you how to get comfortable with the basics of blues as well as learn a super cool blues riff.