Blues Études
Three short blues pieces that put the whole part to work.
3 lessons
This chapter puts the whole blues part to work in three short, original pieces. Each étude is a complete tune with an intro, a verse, a solo and an outro, so you practice not just licks and shapes but how they fit together into music.
Lantern Street Shuffle is a 14-bar shuffle in A built from open-string boogie shapes, box 1 licks and a single bend: your first complete blues guitar song. Ironwood Strut moves to E, with a low riff answered by double-stops, a solo up at the 12th fret that targets the chord tones of A7 and E, and a turnaround over a ringing open string. Ember Hour is a slow blues in G in 12/8, mixing G7 and C9 comping with fills, high bends, a fast run, a pinch harmonic and a half-step slide ending.
Learn each section on its own with the click, then string them together. When you can play an étude from top to bottom at the target tempo, you're playing the blues, not just practicing it.