Blues Guitar Lesson - How To Play Real Blues Songs By Yourself

Your video has turned on some light bulbs for me for sure. Until now I knew the bits and pieces of blues. But now I have more of a generał understanding of the blues structure. Thank you! 😊

Great Video! It answered many question I’ve had. Among them, I couldn’t see where to mix in all your one and two bar licks. I’m looking at soloing with an acoustic guitar and singing. You took a 12 or 8 bar blues at random and played a groove like the basic blues shuffle for the first two bars of each line. Then added a fill for the next two bars. Then finished with a choice of turnarounds to end each time through. This is actually a breakthrough for me. I can take any song – play a groove for the 1st two bars of each line and sing. Then I can choose a fill for bars 3-4 and 7-8. Then finish with a turnaround. This is a really good foundation for further innovation and improvisation, while not slavishly copying and memorizing exact songs. Thanks.

This guy a great player..a band player who could write rock n roll tunes..his playing just flows

You got a great way with illustrating blues methods, that make it look fun and easy to grasp the basics. Used to see your vids on my FB news feed. Glad to see you're still doing this.

Thanks Griff for this lesson. Very helpful video for beginners

Very nice, Griff. Makes me want to get on the porch with my guitar.

Thanks for the tips and advice Griff, enjoyed this. 👍

I subscribed first video I watched. I just fell into this tonight and I am so glad I did! I get what you're saying. You put it together better than others who have tried to explain this kind of blues info. Much thanks.

this is the video that make things "click", thank you so much. Gotta be the best video for those of us at the beginning of our learning journey!

Probably one of the single most important lessons ever. Nice.

Wonderful lesson

This is excatly the expertise that I am aiming for. Just relax and express myself. So, the one that makes it hard is to imitate exactly of a famous song. That ruins the fun of learning. Thank you very much chief for bringing things back in perspective. Cheers from Indonesia.

Thanks for putting this one together. Just now seeing this from you. I totally understand the point you are making. IMHO, when you try to play like you are showing us, keeping a steady groove going, and adding other elements as you play, it helps to eventually come up with your OWN style after a while for other songs. I like it. 😎👍

Good voice griff great lesson btw also.

Nice tasty blues for one guitar. Good lesson Griff.

You have a nice voice.

This is good stuff. I am sure many of your viewers like me are not part of a band but are looking to do songs with a one guitar plus voice arrangement

Hey Griff, I just noticed, you sound like Johnny Carson. I’ll be watching more of your videos.

Thanks

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