If you want to Learn Blues Guitar, it is not quite as difficult as you might think. The key is to get quality instruction. We give Playing Through The Blues the “Numero Uno” Award as the best Step-by-Step Video Instruction for playing blues guitar on the market today, bar none!

If you love the Blues like I do, you will love this course. It is taught by one of the best “teaching” Bluesmen in the business – Griff Hamlin. And he is currently a “working” Bluesman not just a “wanabe”.

Griff’s course consists of over 2 hours of up close videos and 28 jam track audio files. Griff’s style is not “heavy” on theory, and he focuses on practical methods so you can get the sound you want! Even a 12 year old can benefit from this course. You should, however, know a few chords and have some basic strumming ability, but other than that you don’t need any musical experience.

The thing that makes this course so amazing is that it is such “high quality” instruction and it sells for only $47 (about the same cost as a date at an average restaurant). Private lessons, equivalent in content (but not necessarily quality), would cost a fortune.

The course is easily downloaded from the Internet and has a 56 day money back guarantee! That’s right Griff is so sure that you will like his course that he will let you check it out for 56 days to see if it is right for you. And we’re sure you’ll love it too! You can’t lose on this deal.

So, click the following link to sign up and Learn Blues Guitar, for less than it would cost ya for a meal out with your date: Play Blues Guitar

In my opinion, too many beginners try to learn to play guitar by using only TABS. Tabs are a shortcut used by many musicians to learn a song quickly. They are fine if you have already mastered the basics but if you haven’t, it can lead to some pretty bad habits. Bad habits are extremely hard to get rid of. That is why I decided to write this post: Learn to play guitar for beginners.

If you are serious about learning the guitar and playing for many years, then the best place to start is the basics.

ALL really good musicians became that way by starting with a firm foundation, by learning the right way to do things first. Then, they practiced it over and over again. Notice I said “the right way to do things.” If they had practiced the wrong way over and over, they would have failed. This lesson is very important.

Your job as a beginner is to build that firm foundation (learning the correct way to play). Then practice until it is second nature to you. Once your mind, hands and fingers are working easily together, everything else falls into place.

You must learn about strings, tuning, fretboards, scales, chords, strumming, and a whole raft of things. But, don’t worry it’s fun! You will eventually be able to make up your own tunes because you will know how the whole system works together.

If you are serious about learning to play, get serious about learning the “right way.” Then practice, practice, practice!

I had a friend in college named Lamont. He was just a regular guy. At least that is what I thought until he invited me to his home one evening and I heard him practice with his Blues Band. He blew my socks off! He was the greatest blues player I had ever heard. I had never heard such perfect timing and inspired music in my life!

Lamont was very quiet, very modest. One day I asked him how he learned to play the guitar like that. He told me that when he was younger, he had a disease that kept him home from school for a couple of years. Life was boring for him and his dad bought him some blues records to listen to and later a guitar.

He would lie in bed and play along with the blues masters. He would listen to a blues riff and then play it over and over again very slowly until he had it perfect, then he would speed things up.

I tried to imitate Lamont. When I tried to slow down the record an play along with it, the pitch was way off. I couldn’t get good results. I lost contact with Lamont soon after I heard him play, but I will never forget him or that night.

These days, there are computer programs that slow down the music and keep the pitch true. They’re both high quality and low priced! This will be a great investment once you have the basics down. It helps you to develop an “ear” for music and also allows you to loop on a riff infinitely while you play along.

It is so important to master the correct basic techniques before you use these programs. You don’t want to “program yourself” with “bad habits”! As I said before, bad habits are very difficult to get rid of – sometimes impossible!

I have often dreamed about the possibility of capturing “super teachers” on video, and then making their classes available for anyone to watch. Just think of how the education level of the country (and the world) could be raised. The Internet is starting to make that dream possible.

I want you to know that some of the best guitar teachers in the world now have training products on the market – on DVD, and online. Unfortunately, there is a lot of trash out there too. To quote an old saying: “Not all that glitters is gold.” So how do you find the really great courses?

In my opinion, two “top notch” training courses are “ Learn and Master Guitar” (for beginners through advanced) and “Playing Through the Blues” (once you have the basics down). In my next post I will review one or both of these products.