To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

A classic Chicago blues-style shuffle. Use your first finger on the 2nd fret and add your third or fourth finger on the higher notes. Muddy Waters’ riffs were often played around the open E shape but ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered ...

Over the next few columns, I’d like to demonstrate three distinct approaches I like to take to expand my soloing vocabulary within the blues form: chromaticism, diminished/augmented chords, and ii - V ...

Here are the common techniques and musical devices from the blues and jazz styles. Think of ways how they can be transferred to performance and composition tasks. In performance In composing 12-bar ...