Learning Blues Guitar, Take it to the Next Level

Use a pitch pipe, tuning fork, piano or any instrument to give you a starting note. If you start with an E, you can locate all other notes on the guitar itself.

Once you have tuned the 6th string to an E (sixth string is the heaviest string) fret it on the 5th fret. This will give you an A note, the 5th string is the A string. So, by picking the A string open, the pitch sound should be similar to the A note you are fretting on the 6th string.Tune the 5th string to the A note you're fretting on the 6th string.

With practice, you'll soon develope an ear for that equal pitch sound your looking for, you'll know when you hear it!

Likewise, fret the 5th string on the fifth fret to get a D note and tune the 4th string (fourth string is the D string). Fret the 4th string on the fifth fret to get the G note, tune the 3rd string to G (3rd string is the G string)

Fret the 3rd string on the fourth fret to get the B note, tune the 2nd string to the B note (second string is the B string).

Now fret the 2nd string on the fifth fret to get the E note, tune the 1st string (thinnest string) to the E note (1st string being the high E string). Congradulations, you have just tuned your guitar!

Note:if you are using a tuning fork (usually gives you an A note) tune the 5th string to it. Then fret the 6th string on the fifth fret and tune it until it sounds like the open A string.

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Having a private guitar instructor can become very expensive, learning guitar by paying for each and every lesson will add up fast. What I would consider a drawback is working around your teacher's schedule. Also, if there is a lesson that you didn't pick up on or quiet understand, it will cost you to redo or extend that lesson.

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Ragtime & Blues Guitar Lessons - from Texas to the delta

Blues music has a very fixed structure compared to other kinds of music. That's the mystery! Within it's strict confines there is a lot of freedom. One of the greatest things about the blues is the simple form, by simple I don't mean easy.

Chords

You can go to music school and study in the music library for years and still not learn everything there is to know about chords.

The blues guitarist deals mainly with the major, seventh and the minor chords. Don't uncork the champagne yet, because acquiring a working knowledge of major chords is a full time job. That's okay, when learning blues guitar, you do it by playing, watching and listening. That's how BB King and Stevie Ray Voughan (pictured above) mastered the blues.

Bar Chords

Bar chords are movable chord configurations, which can be variably positioned up and down the fret board to accommodate different tonic centers.

This is usually done by putting the index finger across all six strings to replace the nut that accepts the strings at the end of the fret board. The other three fingers are used to produce the chord immediately above the bar.

Because the E chord takes its name from the low E string played open, the E chord bar series has a sixth string root base. This means that the tonic center of the movable bar chord series will take its name from the note played by the index finger on the low E string. You should get to know the letter name notes for every note on the low E string- up, down and inside out. Likewise with the A string.

If you bar the E chord to the first fret, you have an F chord. Barred to the fifth fret, you have an A chord, so on and so fourth.

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