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Learn Blues Guitar

  • Home
  • About/Contact
  • FREE LESSONS
    • TAB EXPLAINED
    • 3 solos in E
    • Boogie Pattern
    • Intro to Blues Fingerpicking
    • Monotonic Bass
    • Shuffle in A
    • St. James
    • Freight Train
    • Death Letter Blues
    • Terraplane Blues
    • Black Mattie
    • In Christ there is no East or West
    • Blues vs Folk Fingerstyle
    • Captain, Captain
    • BIG ROAD BLUES
    • Buying an Acoustic Guitar
    • Old Country Rock
    • Slide Guitar Basics
    • Surf 101
    • Open G Fingerpicking
  • Books and CDs
    • IMPROVISING AND VARIATIONS
    • JAMMING THE BLUES
    • A GUIDE TO ACOUSTIC BLUES GUITAR
    • A GUIDE TO BOTTLENECK SLIDE GUITAR
    • LISTEN
    • A Guide to Acoustic Blues: Volume II
  • Study w/Pete
    • Buzzy's Blog
    • Juke Joint Jam
    • Chords & Lyric
  • Classes/Schedule
  • Pete Madsen
    • video
  • Acoustic Guitar Magazine

I have been writing lessons, reviews and feature articles for Acoustic Guitar for over ten years. Lately, I have written several lessons on blues guitar in open tunings that have appeared in the magazine and will be compiled into a larger online guide. Each lesson focuses on a different blues or blues related artist; such as Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Elizabeth Cotten, Kelly Joe Phelps, RL Burnside and many others. Click on the artist name below to take a look. You can also order the book here

Robert Johnson

RL Burnside

Alvin Youngblood Hart

Skip James

Kelly Joe Phelps

Bukka White

Elizabeth Cotten

Son House

Other Blues-related Articles

Slide Guitar Basics

Soloing with the Mixolydian Scale

Beginning Fingerstyle Blues

Soloing with Thirds

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