How to Play 12 Bar Blues Guitar Riff

GuitarLessons.com the number one name on guitar lessons online! [Demonstration] In this lesson, we’re going to take a blues riff and apply it to the 12 Bar Blues progression. We’re going to learn the riff and then it’s going to be real easy from there because the riff is just repeated for your E chord, your A chord, and your B chord that we’re going to be using. Come down to the second fret on the A string and put your index finger there. And then you're going to get your E string open and play those two notes then you're going to mute it and play it again. Then move up with your third finger on the fourth fret and play that open E and that note together too. [Demonstration] And mute that, then play it again. And that whole thing together is just repeated over and over again, so I’ll do it slowly for you. [Demonstration] Then just loop it together. [Demonstration] Make sure you’re muting where you should be in between hits on those notes right there. [Demonstration] So we’re going to take that exact same riff and move it over a string up here, with our A string open and our first finger on our second fret of our D string, play the exact same riff [Demonstration]. Then you’re going to back to your E for two bars. [Demonstration]. Okay now, here’s when it gets a little bit tricky because you’re going to have the same riff but you’re not going to have the open string, so you're going to have a little bit more of a stretch on this part, but don’t worry about it, you’ll be able to get this pretty fine with a little bit of practice. Take your index finger, put it on the B note, on the second fret of you’re a string, then you're going to reach all the way up with your middle finger on the fourth fret of your D string. It's a bit of a stretch it right there, so you’re going to play those two notes [Demonstration], mute it, and play it again. And you're going to come up all the way to the sixth fret on your D string with your pinky. [Demonstration] Hit that and mute it and hit it again. [Demonstration] That’s the riff right there. [Demonstration] You're going to come back down to the A for a bar. [Demonstration] Then you're going to go back to the E one more time for one bar. [Demonstration] And finish with the B seven bar chord. [Demonstration] So that’s it! Experiment with that and have fun with it and come up with your variations on that, as well.