Acoustic Blues Guitar Boogie
If there’s one riff that sounds like the blues, it’s the boogie. That walking, bouncing bass pattern you hear in every juke joint and roadhouse…
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Intermediate Blues Guitar Riff — Minor Thirds and Chromatic Movement
This is the more advanced riff in the Beginners Blues Riff Chorus series, and it builds directly on the E minor riff with chromatic passing…
Tush by ZZ Top: How to Play This Classic Blues Rock Riff
Tush might be the most fun you can have with three chords and a bad attitude. ZZ Top built this riff on G pentatonic minor,…
The Most Popular Strumming Pattern In The World
This might be the most widely-used strumming pattern in popular music — and a must-know from any collection of strumming patterns. Once you learn it,…
Chord Inversions on Guitar
Understanding chord inversions opens up a whole new world of sounds and possibilities on the guitar. In basic terms, inversion means reversal, so we’re talking…
Blues Chord Progression: Killing Floor Guitar Lesson
A major scale in a blues? Yeah, it shouldn’t work. But Howlin’ Wolf proved it does. We’re diving into Part 3 of this series, and…