How to Play the Blues

March 10, 2025 LouV Music 0

Here is a step-by-step lesson on how to learn to play the Blues — the Texas Blues.

1. Learn from The Secret Guitar Player

First, go over and over this video — the best lesson on how to play the Blues is this video by the New Secret Guitar Player.

Take out a piece of paper and draw out the chords as he shows them, then learn this video backwards and forwards on your guitar (either acoustic or electric or both).

2. Learn from the Best — BB King

Next — learn from the best — BB King. Watch and learn this video:

3. Learn More from BB King

After finishing the video above — learn some more from BB King:

4. Learn How Mike Bloomfield Played

After learning from BB King, it’s time to take in some tricks that the best blues guitar player of the 60’s (according to Bob Dylan and many) used.

5. Learn Some More Tricks

There are an endless amount of videos by guitar teachers on youtube and Rumble giving you tips. Here’s one:

6. Learn the Pentatonic Scales

7. Learn What Pentatonic Scale Shape Fits the Chords You’re Playing

There are techniques for figuring out what Pentatonic scale shape to play over the chords you’re playing. As one commenter to this tweet says, “look at the GBE strings shape from the chord, then find the same shape in the five scale shapes and…viola!”

8. If a Kid Can Do It

Learn from inspiration. If a kid can do it — it can’t be that hard; you can do it too. Here’s some inspiration. Monkey these kids — play what they’re playing:

Kid #1

Kid #2:

Kid #3:

 

 

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