Blues Guitar Lessons DVD

Blues guitarists use some fairly basic guitar techniques quite differently than other styles of guitar, and learning just how those work is pretty vital to a new blues guitarist. Over bending is quite a common use of the basic bending technique from a learn how to play guitar online lesson in blues guitar, as is a bigger usage of bending in general. While there are exceptions like Ritchie Blackmore, who can jump from one guitar lessons for beginners online to the next in the same solo and still retain a bluesy feel, most blues guitarists generally stick with the minor pentatonic scale or the blues scale. This means that a blues guitarist needs to derive almost all of their expressiveness in their guitar work from their mechanical techniques, which gives those techniques a very different priority than a classical guitarist would need.

While it is true that a blues guitarist will be well served learning, as much as they can of guitar technique, they must also learn the conventions of their own genre. Just take a peek at some of the blues guitar lessons dvd on our website, and you will see how different the priorities of those lessons are. A guitarist really can't call themselves a blues guitarist if they don't know how to use their guitar techniques to get that bluesy feel to their playing.