Guitar Riffing: Guitar Riffing: Guitar Playing and getting in the groove

2012-01-27T08:23:00.000-08:00

I wanted to add a bit to the previous post on the frustration of learning the guitar and I have included the previous post for ease of reference.

I have learned a great deal over the years while learning to play the guitar and learning to do new things all the time. As a youngster I learned that I could learn just about anything I wanted to learn by reading, watching and listening. The more I tried to learn the more I learned and the more better my understanding of the learning curve become and my tolerance for the frustration of being bad at something became a motivation rather than a hindrance. Learning to understand the learning process will set you up for a life full of successes. The reality of learning the guitar is that you have to be bad before you can get good. Even the best guitar players started out knowing nothing about guitar. Of course everyone starts from their own base point and some people have more natural talent than others but everything we learn usually comes with a period of being bad before we get good. The discipline you develop while learning the guitar ca be transferred into any other area of life. If you want to be good at the piano or at playing golf, you have to learn to tolerate the early stages of frustration where we all feel silly at times.

If you can stick with your guitar lessons and get beyond the frustration stage you will be very happy and you will be learning some of life's most valuable lessons.

How to Play Blues Guitar

2011-06-01T23:30:00.000-07:00

The basic structure of a blues guitar chord progression is typically referred to as a I IV V or 1, 4, 5 12 barre blues. This basic blues structures is found in thousands and thousands of songs. It is what makes jamming to the blues a universal activity. It is not complicated but it is just enough structure to allow blues guitar players to play over the chords releasing their emotions from the guitar. If you learn 12 Barre Blues you can jam with just about anyone.

This is how you can do it:

If you want to play a 12 barre blues in the key of A you will use the 1, 4 and 5 chords in the key of A.

A B C D E F G A
1 4 5
The A D and E chords are what you will play. The structure of the 12 barre blues is as follows:

AAAA AAAA AAAA AAAA DDDD DDDD AAAA AAAA EEEE DDDD AAAA AAAA

Each Block is considered one measure. The 4 notes here signify 4 beats in the measure. You can see there are 12 measures of 4 beats in a 12 barre blues progression.

You can play 12 barre blues in any key very easily if you can play barre chords. The pattern will be the same for the key of G and the key of F and so on.

Watch this video on how to make barre chords at Fingerdexterity.com It will show you how easy barre chords can be learned and how quickly it will give you the ability to play every major chord on the guitar just by learning a few shapes that can be moved up and down the neck of the guitar.

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