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Play Blues Guitar 2: Rhythm & Lead Fundamentals
Learn Blues Guitar Rhythm & Lead with this Blues Learning Path Core Course
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About this course
Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 2: Rhythm & Lead Fundamentals - the second leg of your TrueFire Learning Path journey towards becoming a solid Blues guitar player.
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, and Jeff Scheetz.
They’ll guide your development of the essential skills and get up and running quickly -- no reading music, no boring exercises, no tedious theory to struggle through. In fact, you’ll play your way through the entire course.
In Play Blues Guitar 1 you learned a couple of songs and licks, along with a handful of blues chords and rhythms. Here in Play Blues Guitar 2, you’re going to venture even further down the path with scales, a little soloing, more blues rhythms and more cool blues chords. For example, you’ll learn how to move up the neck playing a classic blues tune, and then tackle the two most essential blues scales of all time - the minor pentatonic, and the Blues scale -- your keys to soloing and improvising. Barre Chords open up the entire blues songbook and you’ll learn two more blues tunes using them. You’ll wrap up the course earning a 12/8 progression, featuring the bluesy 9th chord.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let’s get started!
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, and Jeff Scheetz.
They’ll guide your development of the essential skills and get up and running quickly -- no reading music, no boring exercises, no tedious theory to struggle through. In fact, you’ll play your way through the entire course.
In Play Blues Guitar 1 you learned a couple of songs and licks, along with a handful of blues chords and rhythms. Here in Play Blues Guitar 2, you’re going to venture even further down the path with scales, a little soloing, more blues rhythms and more cool blues chords. For example, you’ll learn how to move up the neck playing a classic blues tune, and then tackle the two most essential blues scales of all time - the minor pentatonic, and the Blues scale -- your keys to soloing and improvising. Barre Chords open up the entire blues songbook and you’ll learn two more blues tunes using them. You’ll wrap up the course earning a 12/8 progression, featuring the bluesy 9th chord.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let’s get started!
What you'll learn
- Play G minor blues scale
- Execute smooth slide techniques
- Use alternate picking
- Add blue note to minor pentatonic scale
- Maintain clean technique
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 1h 22m runtime
Sample lessons
12 Bar Blues Riff
Lesson 2: Demonstration
Practice Session 2
Playalong: Slow
Practice Session 3
Playalong: Band
Minor Blues Lick
Lesson 9: Demonstration
What's included
33 lessons • 15 charts • 9 Jam Tracks
PLAY BLUES GUITAR 2
Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 2: Rhythm & Lead Fundamentals - the second leg of your TrueFire Learning Path journey towards becoming a solid blues guitar player.
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, and Jeff Scheetz.
They'll guide your development of the essential skills and get up and running quickly -- no reading music, no boring exercises, no tedious theory to struggle through. In fact, you'll play your way through the entire course.
In Play Blues Guitar 1 you learned a couple of songs and licks, along with a handful of blues chords and rhythms. Here in Play Blues Guitar 2, you're going to venture even further down the path with scales, a little soloing, more blues rhythms and more cool blues chords. For example, you'll learn how to move up the neck playing a classic blues tune, and then tackle the two most essential blues scales of all time - the minor pentatonic, and the blues scale -- your keys to soloing and improvising. Barre chords open up the entire blues songbook and you'll learn two more blues tunes using them. You'll wrap up the course earning a 12/8 progression, featuring the bluesy 9th chord.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let's get started!
This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 3 top TrueFire educators: Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, and Jeff Scheetz.
They'll guide your development of the essential skills and get up and running quickly -- no reading music, no boring exercises, no tedious theory to struggle through. In fact, you'll play your way through the entire course.
In Play Blues Guitar 1 you learned a couple of songs and licks, along with a handful of blues chords and rhythms. Here in Play Blues Guitar 2, you're going to venture even further down the path with scales, a little soloing, more blues rhythms and more cool blues chords. For example, you'll learn how to move up the neck playing a classic blues tune, and then tackle the two most essential blues scales of all time - the minor pentatonic, and the blues scale -- your keys to soloing and improvising. Barre chords open up the entire blues songbook and you'll learn two more blues tunes using them. You'll wrap up the course earning a 12/8 progression, featuring the bluesy 9th chord.
The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.
You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.
Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.
Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Basic Blues Riff
Playing this classic blues riff is a great way to get a feel for different kinds of blues playing. You will be slowly building your blues repertoire with blues songs and riffs as you progress, and getting the essential ones under your fingers is really important. Take your time and make sure you have it down cleanly before you move into the Practice Session.
Practice Session 1
In this Practice Session you will be playing along with the instructor. Take your time and don't rush through it.
Practice this as many times as you need to before moving on.
Practice this as many times as you need to before moving on.
12 Bar Blues Riff
Of course a 12-bar blues progression is always the end result of learning a cool blues rhythm riff! Practice this one at different tempos so you will be ready for anything!
Practice Session 2
Your instructor will guide you through this Practice Session.
Don't move on until you feel like you are locked in with the tempo and are playing it cleanly.
Don't move on until you feel like you are locked in with the tempo and are playing it cleanly.
Practice Session 3
Let's have some fun! In this Practice Session we jam with the band! Take your time, don't worry about doing it perfectly the first time, just keep going over it until you have it all down smooth. Then you are ready to move on.
Minor Pentatonic Scale
The minor pentatonic scale is one of the most essential blues soloing tools you can have in your toolbox. It is the basis for most blues improvising and usually the first scale most guitarists learn. So having a good grasp on it is imperative. Work on the fingering and listen to each note that you play. You want to get this scale "in your ear" as well as "under your fingers".
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Reviews
35 results
Al74Ar
Verified buyer
06/21/26
Session 9 is quite challenging—you really should have provided separate lessons for pull-offs, hammer-ons, vibrato, and slides.
brucechadbourne
Verified buyer
05/26/26
You've done well with this
Enjoyed the class very much. The video makes it personal and gives a good start to the technique that still needs to be practiced.
BanjoRobb
Verified buyer
02/09/26
Play Blues Guitar Two
Great course and instructor
pchudzik@icloud.com
Verified buyer
12/01/25
Very good beginners course
Very good series of step by step videos taking you through basics of blues guitar
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