Guitar Lesson - 12 Bar Blues

Hey everybody! Neil here from the guitar tricks channel. We’ve got your lesson of the week and your tip of the week. The lesson of the week is on the Blue Shuffle by Andy Girly. He’s a National Pro, one our newest instructors and he’s got a great lesson. I'm going to show a couple of excerpt from that. And also, we’re going to give you a tip of the week right now, which is real quick easy one. If we you have a strap, or pretty match with any guitar, that’s got the little space up here with the strings coming down to tuning pegs. If you’re making sounds, creating sounds with your electric guitar, that’s one little thing you can do is add in a little—mess around with the strings up here or if you have gaps on those, you can pick behind the bridge right here and it's kind of a cool, little extra thing that you can do. Van Halen’s “Runnin’ With The Devil,” the very first thing that Eddie plays is a little -- on the guitar, just have to throw that in there. We’ll go to move on our lesson right now. It’s on the 12 Bar Blue Shuffle. It’s based on Andy Girly’s lesson on the guitar tricks web site. He’s one of our news instructors. He’s a Pro player out of National, and this is a pretty straight forward lesson right here. It’s in the key of A; open A chord, bar chord, just a basic power chord actually. We’re going to start with the first finger on the second fret of the D string. We’re going to be playing just the A and the D strings right here. [Demonstration] And then you put the third finger on the fourth fret of the D string right here [Demonstration] You’re going to hit it twice, on each one. [Demonstration] You’re going to play that for four measures. To make it easy to count the beats, the beat happens whenever you change, so when you play the first one, that’s one beat, when you play the first two notes-- [Demonstration] Then you’re going to change to the D strings, same pattern, same thing, pretty straight forward. [Demonstration] Back to the A, for two measures. [Demonstration] And then we’re going to the E string, same pattern with the open chord. [Demonstration] And then back to the A chord for two measures. [Demonstration] And that runs out your 12 Bar Blues progression. It’s the very basic, it’s for beginners to intermediate. The cool thing about Andy on the site is he starts up with this really basic progression. Then, as he heard the little lick that I played in the beginning scale, a little bit more embellishments and field to it. So, it starts from there and goes all the way through and shows you the extra little things that you can do to add to your playing of the Blue styles, which works in country rock blues. It’s a great little tool to have in your guitar, guitarist tool box. You can come on our web site and leave a request on the Youtube site or the Myspace site. And feel free to come on over the guitar tricks, you can register for free, enter our contest and check out some of our free lessons. See you right here next week, have a good one! [Demonstration]