Start with learning some essential blues chords. Then try your hand at simple lead licks, slide guitar, rags, and much more, with this excellent selection of blues and slide guitar lessons.
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Blues Guitar Lesson 
Start playing the blues by learning the basic forms and then expand your skills by adding bottleneck slide and thumb-driven blues melodies.
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Blues Slide Lessons 
In this downloadable PDF, you’ll find three lessons that will teach you how to play slide blues guitar. |
Blues Chords up the NeckDavid Hamburger explains how to get musical results past the fifth fret with commonly used chords. Music to 'Handful of Chords/Blues up the Neck' |
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Blues Lead Phrasing Building licks from a few essential notes. |
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Bye Bye Baby Blues Steve James shows how to play this country blues classic. |
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Candy Man Learn some of the elements that contributed to Mississippi John Hurt's unique yet natural-sounding style. |
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Crow Jane Texas roots music wizard Steve James teaches his version of a classic country blues. |
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Do the Shuffle Chris Grampp gives an easy introduction to one of the most popular rhythms of all time. |
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Fingerpicking and Slide Covers basics of using various slides and slide tunings with a fingerpicking approach |
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The Kansas City Lowdown Music by David Hamburger. Learn to play an open-C blues inspired by pianists like Jelly Roll Morton. |
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Lap-Slide With assistance from Dylan Schorer, innovative guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps shows his unique approach to lap-style slide guitar, with examples drawn from his debut recording, Lead Me On. |
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Monotonic Bass Fingerpicking Accompany your blues licks wih a thumping one-note bass. |
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Play the Blues David Hamburger teaches right-hand positioning, a fingerpicking pattern, and a complete song to play. |
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Single-String Slide Melodies David Hamburger explores the fundamentals of single-string melody playing on acoustic slide guitar in open D tuning. |
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Slide: Working in the Thumb David Hamburger explains how to play bass notes with your thumb underneath slide melodies in open D tuning. |
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