Tuesday Blues

Spice up Your Twelve Bar Blues with this Chord Trick

Lesson ID: TB343

How to Play 12 Bar Blues Progressions Anywhere on the Neck

Lesson ID: TB315

Massively Improve Your Fretboard Skills with This

Lesson ID: TB314

Should I learn scales on the guitar first or chords?

Lesson ID: TB307

The Most Important Thing I Learned About Music

Lesson ID: TB302

How to Build the Chords in a Minor Key

Lesson ID: TB272

How to Leverage a Scale You Already Know

Lesson ID: TB271

Making Sense of the Ragtime Blues Progression

Lesson ID: TB266

Are You Over Complicating the Guitar?

Lesson ID: TB256

Are you over complicating the guitar? I’m certainly guilty of this at times.  In this lesson, we’re going to cut through the distractions and build each the seven chords in a major key.  It’s easier than you think but it helps if you know the names of each note on the fretboard. The Mother Scale […]

Will Music Theory Make You a Better Guitar Player?

Lesson ID: TB255

Will music theory actually make you a better guitar player? Well maybe, maybe not though. It depends on your goals and in this lesson, we’ll have a look at some reasons why you might want to consider learning the basics.

How to Count to Four (for Blues Guitarists)

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Related Lessons What’s the Difference Between Straight versus Shuffle Rhythm? | TB151 Improve Your Timing with this Quick Exercise | TB146 Develop Good Timing with these 3 Simple but Powerful Exercises | TB149

Multiply the Chords You Know with This

Lesson ID: TB213

In this lesson, I’ll give you 6 chord formulas that will help you form chords all over the guitar neck. I love a good formula. You can learn a formula and then you get to apply it in tons of different situations. Without a formula to help us make sense of things, you would probably […]

The Reason Why You Should Know Your Arpeggios

Lesson ID: TB160

In this lesson, you’ll learn the reason why even blues players need to know a bit about arpeggios. Metalheads, shredders, virtuosos….those are the only guitar players that need to know about arpeggios, right? Honestly, I used to think so. I struggled to apply the rote memorization of arpeggios to my playing as a blues guitarist. […]

What’s the Difference between Straight versus Shuffle Rhythm?

Lesson ID: TB151

In this lesson, we’ll focus on building solid rhythm skills by highlighting the difference between straight and shuffle rhythm.

Must Know Scale for the Guitarist That Hates Scales

Lesson ID: TB096

What one scale is responsible for launching more guitar music than any other? If you want to play guitar and hate scales, this is the one scale that you should know inside and out. Ask any guitar hero. The minor pentatonic scale just simply can’t be ignored. Entire careers have been built around the minor pentatonic scale. In blues […]

Minor Chord Construction

Lesson ID: TB088

In this lesson, we’ll take what we learned in Tuesday Blues lesson 26 & 27 about constructing major chords and apply it to minor chords.

With one small tweak to the major chord formula, we end up with a minor chord. Changing just one note of a chord can have dramatic results.

Constructing the E Blues Scale (Practice Guide Included)

Lesson ID: TB083

In this lesson, we’ll walk through the E Blues Scale in a musical sense. Then, we’ll take the scale formula and apply it to the fretboard.

Be sure to pick up the tab for the practice guide that will get your fingers playing the scale in several positions on the neck.

Using 3rds in Your Blues Licks

Lesson ID: TB067

Quick Exercise: Note Trainer – E’s A’s and D’s

Lesson ID: TB064

Learn the Blues Scale with the One String Approach

Lesson ID: TB040

Guitar players love playing in box patterns, shapes and so forth. That way of thinking has its application, but if you really want to learn a scale – I mean get down to the heart of the matter – I strongly encourage you to learn the scale on one single string. I tend to break […]

Long Version of the Minor Pentatonic Scale

Lesson ID: TB030

Practice this long version of the minor pentatonic scale to help break out of the pentatonic box patterns and move more freely on the neck.