Blues Guitar Lessons & Courses

Dave Issacs invites you to hop in the car with him as he takes you on a road trip to experience the different styles of blues! From the Mississippi Delta, Chicago, New Orleans, Texas, and even some British Blues in…

Are you a beginner blues player that is ready to try your hand at some solos? Charlie Stevens' Flying Solo Course has all the building blocks you need to get you playing solos that will take your blues playing to…

Some guitar players when playing the Blues tend to get stuck in the same handful of barre chord shapes. If you've found yourself in this group you've found the right course to help you leap over that hurdle! In this…

Finding yourself in a pentatonic rut? Or maybe you have a few pentatonic scales under your fingers but you don't know quite what to do with them. Rob Garland offers the tools you need to enhance your solos within blues-style…

Is your Blues playing bland? Does it feel like your playing is missing a few key ingredients? Well, it's time to spice things up with this comprehensive course as Mark Kroos offers several tools that will add variety to your…

What do Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards, Albert King, Joe Perry, Duane Allman, have in common? They all played with feeling, invented a signature guitar sound, and their phrasing and lick techniques became legendary. This…

Blues has many iterations and styles, ranging from complex forms that include Jazz to the basic 12 bar formula. In this series Nick Russo breaks down an ultra-basic One Chord Blues Jam that he uses to impart his melodic and…

Twenty fingerstyle blues licks that you can you can use to begin, end, and transition in your twelve bar blues playing. Enjoy the old-timey feel of these timeless masterpieces.

Getting into the Blues? This course will help you solidify the characteristics that have built the modern blues. The strength of this course is its broad curriculum that allows you to touch many different aspects of playing the blues, master…

Learn the roots and flavors of this timeless style by navigating the roadmap of storied bluesman throughout history. Stuart Ziff, accomplished musician and educator, dedicates 40 lessons to this timeline. We start with T-Bone Walker, move to the "œthree kings"…

Get started, sound great, and have fun playing blues rock guitar. It’s all here: 12-bar blues form, easy rhythms, shuffles, pentatonic scales, how to begin soloing, riffs, getting a great tone from your guitar and amp, and more!

In this blues series Jeff discusses the sounds of prolific blues players, provides tips to get outside typical blues playing and imparts his own brand of style to this classic american music style.

This series by Stuart Ziff is one of the most comprehensive looks at all of the ins and outs of Slide Guitar playing you'll find anywhere. Once Stuart gets your tools and gear whipped into shape, he'll dive into the…

After reviewing some basics when it comes to the Blues, Hawkeye shares his knowledge from personal experience and one-on-one encounters with some of the greatest classic blues players ever to play! Learn some licks and hear fascinating inside information about…

Learn the building blocks of the Rockabilly genre with Ian Argys.

This series covers an original Blues song titled "The Bitter Blues." The song was inspired by Led Zeppelin, and Jimmy Page, and as such is an excellent study in modern electric blues. Chris will break down the song into 30…

Join Chris Liepe on an epic Blues journey. He will take a 3 minute Blues guitar solo, break it down and teach it lick by lick. By the end of this series your ability to play and understand Blues will…

Stuart Ziff presents an amazing series on Blues guitar. His unique, no-nonsense approach to playing makes this series perfect for players new to the genre.

Eric Madis covers a uniquely American style of music, the Blues. In this series he tackles the subject from the acoustic fingerstyle perspective and even throws in a bit of ragtime for good measure.

Iowa Blues Hall of Fame Inductee and famed educator, Hawkeye Herman, will guide you through blues guitar concepts and applications. Beginning at the beginner level and gradually advancing to more difficult material, you will learn chords, the 12 bar blues,…

DJ will teach you the 12 bar blues with quite a few chord variations and turnaround options. You will also learn the minor pentatonic scale and how to use it for blues lead play. DJ will also teach you a…

Eric Madis will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will start off with the basics of country and urban blues and move on to touch on nearly every facet of electric blues playing.

Mary Flower combines the best of blues music with amazing fingerstyle arrangements. In this lesson series Mary will get you started in the world of fingerstyle blues.

Orville Johnson combines his amazing fingerstyle abilities with classic blues music. Orville will introduce you to the necessary concepts of fingerstyle and move on to teach classic blues tunes.

Kenny "Blue" Ray will guide you through the world of electric blues. He will cover styles of many of the blues greats as well as throw in his personal library of knowledge.

Orville Johnson, an acoustic blues master, will delve into the world of slide guitar head first. He will discuss the slide, it's history and move on to teaching slide technique and related compositions.

Slide guitar and Blues go way back, and have a rich heritage of complimenting each other. The slide is a wonderful way to add that "vocal" quality to your guitar playing as well. This technique can be used with all…

Mary Flower, an award-winning fingerstyle blues artist, was quoted to be "One of the best blues-based singer songwriters working today" by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. In addition to her already thriving blues series on JamPlay, Mary shares an array of insightful…

Brendan Burns delves in to the stylistic playing of Eric Clapton.

This is your chance to play like a King... B. B. King! Throughout this series, Kenny Blue Ray will break down B. B. King's style and get your fingers rollin' like one of Classic Blues' finest!

Hawkeye Herman returns to Jamplay.com with his brand new series on Blues Songwriting! Hawkeye covers all aspects of blues songwriting, from common styles to intros and outros, as well as topics related to inspiration and content. A must for any…