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Blues Rhythm

For a form of music that primarily uses just 3 chords there are a lot of different ways to play them. This page takes a look at some of them.

Funky Blues Rhythm - Add New Chord Voicings To Your Blues

This lesson teaches a cool funk style blues progression and discusses ways to add new voicings to your blues rhythm playing.

Top 5 Classic Blues Riffs

5 all-time classic blues riffs that every aspiring blues guitarist should know. With onscreen tablature.

Blues Rhumba Rhythm

Inspired by a video of some modern blues greats jamming at the one of the NAMM shows this video looks at playing a blues rhumba rhythm.

Cream - Politician

Using Cream's Politician as inspiration this is a great lesson for practising alternating lead and rhythm playing at the same time.

Blues Boogie Style Rhythm

Good lesson for beginners looking at playing a boogie style blues guitar riff.

Early Fleetwood Mac Style Blues

Loosely based off Peter Green's Rattlesnake Shake, this driving blues/rock rhythm is great to play and incorporates using octaves and rhythm fills.

Born Under A Bad Sign Style Blues Rhythm

Inspired by Albert King's epic Born Under A Bad Sign, this lesson takes the basic rhythm concept and turns it into a more traditional 12 bar structure.

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