Klaus Crow, Author at GUITARHABITS

The Pentatonic Coffee Blues Lick

It’s coffee time! This morning I was playing the blues on my guitar while drinking my oh so delicious dutch “Douwe Egberts” coffee and came up with this neat basic blues lick. The Coffee Blues Lick was born.

The Pentatonic Coffee Blues Lick

The coffee blues lick is in the key of A and is derived from the pentatonic scale with an added 3rd and major 6th note. It’s a real tasty but still fairly easy lick to play. You can play the lick over a 12 bar blues shuffle or a basic 12 bar blues chord progression. A great lick for beginners and intermediate guitar players.

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this fabulous blues lick.

Enjoy!

To Love Somebody Guitar Lesson

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Today I’m going to teach you one of my favorite songs “To Love Somebody” by The Bee Gees. This song is covered by lots of people including Janis Joplin, Michael Bolton and my favorite cover version by Damien Rice & Ray La Montagne.

To Love Somebody – Guitar Lesson

I’ll teach you the most simplified version of this song, so it’s going to be in the key of D. The chords for this song are D – G – Em – C – A.

I will teach you two different strumming patterns, a very common strumming pattern for this type of song and a simplified strumming pattern for beginners.

common strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓↓↑ = down – down – up – up – down – down – down – up

Simple strumming pattern: ↓↓↑↑↓↓ = down – down – up – up – down – down

Watch the video guitar lesson below to learn this amazing song. This is a must-learn-song! ;)

Please share your feedback in the comments below or on Youtube. I read and reply to everyone of them. I’d love to hear from you! 💚🎸

Wicked Blues Guitar Lick – Key of A

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Hi everyone, how are you today? Are you still practicing on a regular basis and making small steps forward? Getting better is all about minor improvements over a longer period of time. You just have to be consistent with your practice and make sure you have fun along the way. 💚🥳

Wicked Blues Guitar Lick – Key of A

Today I’ve got a wicked straight up blues lick for you in the key of A. We got some hammer-ons, bend ups, and double stops in there. Another great blues lick to add to your solo vocabulary.

Once you got this blues lick down you can try to play it over a 12 bar blues shuffle.

Below you can find the tabs and video lesson to learn this Wicked Blues Guitar Lick:

12 Bar Blues Basic Strumming + Triplet Turnarounds

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Hi lovely people, I’ve got a 12 Bar Blues Progression for you today with a basic strumming pattern, a basic turnaround and some extra fancy triplet turnarounds to spice things up.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Progression

This 12 Bar Blues shuffle is in the key of E and moves through the following 12 bar chord progression:

/ E7 / E7 / E7 / E7 / A7 / A7 / E7 / E7 / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 /

The last four bars of the progression function as the turnaround. You can play this by strumming through the pattern / B7 / A7 / E7 / B7 / or finish it with a more enhanced turnaround that makes the progression sound really cool. Eventually you want to learn both. If you’re a beginner just start with the basic turnaround.

Basic 12 Bar Blues Strumming Pattern

For the strumming pattern we play: ↓↓↑↑↓↑ “down-down-up-up-down-up” for each bar / measure throughout the entire progression.

Below there’s a video lesson where I explain the entire 12 bar blues with the strumming patten and different blues turnarounds.

Enjoy!

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