Learn To Play Guitar: I-IV-V Blues Riff Part 1

Danny Grady: We've already looked at how to derive the blues in any key using the one, four and five, and from the previous lessons what we did is we alternated between a fifth chord and a sixth chord and that's how we got our rhythm riff.

Let's take that same methodology using the one, the four and the five, and let's start plugging another stuff. These are going to come at point where you get sick of just doing the five with the six, and you wanted to spice it up and try something new.

So let's try blues and A. So I am going to go E, F, G, A here is our A note, there is our one, come down, there is four, come up two frets and there is five.

So again the root of our one chord is here on the fifth fret of the sixth string, E we take it up a string, it's on the fifth fret of the fifth string that's our four chord, D and then you go up two frets, that's our five chord E.

So I am going to plug-in using just that one, four, five with that same blues progression we learned earlier. I am just going to plug-in a little riff for each of those roots.

Giles Martin: Hi! This is Giles Martin, I am here Abbey road studio 2 talking about revolution. Musically revolution is the homage to John Lennon's influences, it's kind of chuck berry on over truck.

Male Speaker: So I am going to start out with a riff based on a B5 power chord. Your first finger is going to go on the seventh fret of the sixth string, third finger on the ninth fret of the fifth string.


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