Acoustic Blues

Charlie Stevens lays down the foundation for you to make the most out of playing blues on an acoustic guitar. Focused around lead playing, you’ll learn a variety of blues licks that can be added to your repertoire. Plus, you’ll have access to plenty of JamTracks that let you experiment with the concepts covered in this course.

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Charlie Stevens

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blues

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About this course

Charlie Stevens lays down the foundation for you to make the most out of playing blues on an acoustic guitar. Focused around lead playing, you’ll learn a variety of blues licks that can be added to your repertoire. Plus, you’ll have access to plenty of JamTracks that let you experiment with the concepts covered in this course.

What you'll learn

Apply a single lick concept over an entire chord progression
Combine multiple theoretical concepts into one musical phrase
Recognize unison note positions on adjacent strings
Develop timing and coordination for slide-to-unison technique
Recognize the relationship between minor/major third movement and sixth intervals

Release date: 10/20/2021 • 3h 31m runtime

late beginner intermediate acoustic guitar chords scales theory

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Sample lessons

Bluesy Sounding Scales

Dorian Rock-Blues Lick

Open String Shuffle Lick

Bluesy Sounding Scales

Dorian Rock-Blues Lick

Open String Shuffle Lick

What's included

21 lessons • 15 charts • 15 Jam Tracks

Introduction

Charlie starts this course out by discussing what we are going to learn.

The Uniqueness of the Acoustic

Here we learn about what makes the blues on acoustic so unique.

The Interval of the Sixth

Let's check out the interval of the sixth.

Pentatonic Scales

Charlie breaks down some pentatonic scales for us.

Bluesy Sounding Scales

Now we try some different scales with a bluesy spin.

Mixing Major and Minor

Let's try out mixing up the major and minor.

Sliding Sixths

Charlie shows us the sliding sixths.

+ 14 more lessons

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04/08/26

Acoustic Blues (emphasis on Acoustic)

This course is geared toward acoustic guitar, which was exactly what I was looking for. Instructor is easy to follow and provides thorough explanations. The licks are fun. This course emphasizes the acoustic guitar's strengths. Good times.

EgonM

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12/13/25

Acoustic Blues

Good för beginners

Philip01

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03/26/25

Interesting

Just started this course and it seems to have lots of interesting lessons on various topics.

Sindibad

02/17/25