Easy Blues Guitar Lesson For Beginners - Must Know 12 Bar Blues In E

This lesson is more aimed at beginning blues guitar players and is the classic "Blues In E" 12 bar blues patter, but with a couple of common variations as well.

When you play in a situation where there is another guitar player, the "Blues In E" is inevitably called. One guitar player plays the rhythm, while one takes a solo, and you trade off every chorus or 2 usually.

As you can imagine, playing the same thing over and over gets a little old, so with the variations here you can create a lot of variety and keep your slow blues in E sounding fresh every time you go around.

[ДаниэльЖантлесов]

Thank you Griffin, this video is very good, especially with adding 7th chords and playing with mediator it sounds very expressive!

[MrMusicbook]

Thank's for taking the time to share with us ....

[chucklutter]

Thank you for another great video concisely explaining a "basic" fundamental!

[amandasteven]

kudo's to Griff' for explaining the SLUFF! (10:50) this was an eye-opener and evrything got much easier for me after that. seriously, things jst seemed to fall into place and my blues-shuffle actually sounds good now (imagine that) thank u sir:)

[frankchiappetta]

Hey Griff, great lesson. I do have a question: After hitting that A chord, it appears that, most times, you are hitting open strings before hammering on the E7 note and then going back to the E chord. Am I correct?