I FOUND THE EASIEST WAY TO PLAY BLUES GUITAR

hey guys it's ricky here in today's lesson i have got the simplest the most easiest blues guitar lesson you could ever possibly learn and it sounds awesome if you learned this this would enable you to get up on stage with a band and actually play a blues and all you need to know is one chord and one scale shape that's it that's all we're gonna learn today you're gonna have so much fun with it so let's crack on with the lesson so what do you mean ricky one chord well what we're gonna do is we're gonna use one shape and let me just show you the shape and then we'll get into it what we've got here guys is we've got what looks like a minor seven flat five chord chip but the thing is it isn't so much the name of the chord that's important it's the shape of the chord that's important if i added this note to the chord then what i actually get is i get a ninth chord a dominant ninth chord so this is for learning how to play a dominant blues don't worry about the theory aspect of this because there will be a pdf for you to download in the description so this minor seven flat five chord you might think of this as being called seven in the major key but really it has another function that we can tap into and that function is to add this note here this turns the chord into an a9 a dominant ninth chord now if i was to play it as a ninth chord it would look something like this and you know you could actually still use this shape but that would mean you're using two shapes and this video is all about just using one shape but we're not interested in that because we need the ship because what we're going to do is we're going to utilize the fact that this middle finger here is on the g string so just to show you how to build the minor 7 flat 5 chord or as i'm going to think of it here as being an a9 chord so i put my first finger on the fourth fret of the a string put my second finger on the fourth fret of the g string i put the third finger on the fifth fret of the d string and then what we've got to do is just put this pinky on here on the b string at the fifth fret and that gives us the shape and the beauty of this is you don't need to take your fingers off when you are changing chords it couldn't get any easier so what we've got is three positions we need to put this chord on chord one chord four and chord five and the positions that we do that are well if you want to think of it they were looking at the third and fourth finger as our reference point for the note that it should be really we're just imagining this a note here we're visualizing it sometimes you need to do that with chords you need to just imagine the root notes and where they are and that's where that a note is there so using the third and fourth finger as my reference because that's on the same fret so this here is my a9 chord i'm thinking of this as an a9 and actually i'm thinking of it as a rootless a9 now if we're thinking in blues what we might do is you might look and count up your fingers and go one two three four five so if we're in a we've got a b c d is going to be chord four e is gonna be chord five so if we take that a d e we know what we need and what we do is we find the root note on the e string so if we go from here a which is at the 5th fret and we move up to the 10th fret to find the d and then we move to the 12th fret to find the e those are the positions we're going to slide this chord up now quickly i just want to mention about the kinesthetic what i mean kinesthetic i mean how the chord feels you've worked hard to get those grooves in your fingertips and you know what it would be a shame to waste them so let's utilize them now what i want you to do is i want you to imagine that your hand is a train and the strings are the rails of the train track now all i'm gonna do to get to the next station which is the d chord or chord four i'm just going to slide this up to the tenth fret i release my grip but what i do is i make sure that the strings are still in my fingertip grooves that way i don't take my fingers off those grooves will help you to find your way up and down using this shape next what we've got to do is find chord five which is an e9 chord to do that all we need to do is move up two more frets and that puts us at the 11th and 12th frets with our fingers utilizing those railroad tracks for our finger grooves we just slide it up two frets this is chord five so if i play those three shapes you should be able to hear the chords that we need to play a blues chord one a nine chord four d nine chord five e nine now that's pretty cool but what we need to do is we need to put that into something like a 12 bar structure and we're going to do four down strokes per bar so we go one two three four and i highly recommend just squeezing the cord every time you strum it pumping the cord gives it a really nice effect it also helps you in muting your other strings out it tells you what string shouldn't be in the equation of the strum [Music] so you can see there i'm just strumming four strums per bar these are all just down strokes guys it's really really easy so let me play through a full 12 bar blues for you oh one two three four [Music] if you want to add some more rhythmic interest then i find the easiest way to do that is to think about how a horn section would play in a band so i'm thinking when i squeeze this chord here i want bada that gives you a ready-made rhythm that you can just tap into because you've heard that stuff before next what we need to be able to do is if you want to play a lead along with this you need to know a scale now i've seen this scale called the house of blues and the reason it's called the house of blues is because it looks like a house and the reason i like this combination of this chord and this scale pattern is because they are very easy to get to remember we're using that groove to get up to the four and the five chord well what we can do is we can use that middle finger like i mentioned earlier and we can use that to slide up to the sixth fret on the g string and then what we're going to do is we're going to play a little triangle shape using the b string as well so we're on the g and the b string it's the roof of the house and then what we're going to do is we're going to add a rectangle by adding the thin e string and i'm playing five seven five seven [Music] as you can see that's why it's called the house of blues when i play this chord one this a seven i really want to hammer that major pentatonic because this is what it really is [Music] now you can play the minor over it but i just think that the mirror just sounds happier keep it simple guys while you're learning how this works next we're going to slide up to chord four and what we're going to do is we're going to play that same shape again the same scale shape but what we're going to do is transfer that to the 11th fret 10 on the b string 12 on their b string and then we get 10 and 12 on the thin e string [Music] and then when we go to chord five we can do the same thing again [Music] also with chord five we could stick with the position where the chord four was and if we add some of the minor pentatonic to this we can actually move into what's known as the bb king box so putting that together over that chord five [Music] using both of those ideas here this is the minor pentatonic [Music] and that little house of blues here [Music] so to recap we get chord one chord four chord five we get the house of blues scale here for chord one we get it here for chord four [Music] we get it here for chord five and we can combine the house of blues with this minor pentatonic and that gives us that bb king sound so what we can do is we can add [Music] so guys if you enjoyed that lesson and you want more like that don't forget to bash that like and hit that subscribe button and i will see you in a future tutorial hit subscribe for more guitar tips

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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 13 2022