Blues Rhythm Guitar for Beginners 2

Hey I’m Jeff McErlain. Welcome to module 2 of Blues Rhythm Guitar for Beginners.

In Module 1, you learned the fundamental building blocks for playing blues guitar. You can now play a blues progression in the key of A with seventh chords, have a few strumming patterns under your belt, have a grip on the boogie woogie riff, learned how to play a turnaround and you started developing your technique with muting, picking approaches, hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Here in Module 2, we’ll take it to the next level by learning how to play what we already know in the key of E — another very popular key for blues.

You’ll learn more strumming patterns and how to play ‘barre’ chords so you can play the blues in any key. I’ll also show you the dominant 9th chord — one of the most useful moveable chords in blues.

You’ll learn how to play a minor blues AND a slow blues with a 12/8 feel. Along the way we’ll work on rhythm dynamics, muting techniques, double-stops and sliding chords.

Just like we did in Module 1 — we’ll practice everything together! Each lesson begins with an overview and demonstration.

We’ll then practice together using a slow play along, and then we’ll play over a blues backing track for real-world musical context.

Plus, using TrueFire’s learning tools, you can loop, slow down or sync the tab to any of the video lessons to learn at your own pace.

Ready to take it to the next level? Grab your guitar, let's get started.