How to Play Simple and Easy Blues Patterns
I love playing blues patterns! It is simple, easy, fun and as a guitar teacher I think every student can benefit from learning some blues. So today will be getting basic chords and adding simple ideas to make those chords more interesting to play.
Let’s start with three basic chords: G, C and D major and explore two different ways to play those chords:
Now let’s organize those chords in a twelve bar blues form, so the order of the chords will be:
(please watch the video for the strum pattern)
After you master this pattern you can take the next step and add a bass line to make things a bit more interesting:
And we can use the same pattern for the C and D chords:
We can even make this extra fun by adding one more passage to it:
Hope you guys have enjoyed this lesson and don’t forget to check the other teachers articles!
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