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Blues Guitar Lessons On Video

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

There are a lot of people who already can play some guitar, but they want to improve their guitar skills. Lots of time they want to learn a certain style. One style they might want to perfect is the good old blues.

At first glance blues looks pretty easy to play, most of the time a blues song has only 3 chords, or even less. Blues is easy to play, if you are a beginner you can very soon play lots of blues songs. But to be good at playing the blues, that is a whole different ball game.

So, how do you become a good blues guitar player. Play blues guitar a lot, of course, listen to great blues guitar players, and watch blues guitar lessons on video.

If you search the Internet you find lots of blues guitar lessons on video, You Tube has hundreds. But after a while you could want more then all these free blues guitar video clips of a few minutes.

The Guitar Classroom has found a blues guitar course that could solve your problem. It is called Playing Through The Blues and it is quiet good. Especially if you play electric guitar and are looking to improve you lead guitar playing we would recommend this blues guitar course.

The course comes with a lot of blues guitar lessons on video and the creator, Griff Hamlin, is constantly adding new material. The price of $47 includes free updates for live, not a bad bargain.

Another way to master the blues guitar is to sing up for either Guitar Tricks or Jam Play. Both online guitar schools have blues guitar teachers who will learn you a lot about playing the blues.

Here one of the blues guitar teachers from Guitar Tricks Hawkeye Herman performs one of his own songs : Katrina, Oh Katrina (Hurricane Blues)