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12 Bar Blues Variation + Exquisite Turnaround

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Ladies & gentleman, today we’re going to expand on the easy 12 Bar Blues Shuffle with a Shuffle variation and an exquisite blues turnaround. You’re gonna have a blast!

12 Bar Blues Variation + Exquisite Turnaround

With this 12 Bar blues variation we’re adding an extra finger to the easy blues shuffle and make it feel even more bluesy and alive finishing the riff with a really fun turnaround that will make you look cool to your peers, no matter how old you are ;)

Below you can find the tablature and the video lesson for this little project.

The Pentatonic Coffee Blues Lick

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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! ;)

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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:

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