How to Play Blues Guitar

The basic structure of a blues guitar chord progression is typically referred to as a I IV V or 1, 4, 5 12 barre blues.  This basic blues structures is found in thousands and thousands of songs.  It is what makes jamming to the blues a universal activity.  It is not complicated but it is just enough structure to allow blues guitar players to play over the chords releasing their emotions from the guitar.  If you learn 12 Barre Blues you can jam with just about anyone. 

This is how you can do it:

If you want to play a 12 barre blues in the key of A you will use the 1, 4 and 5 chords in the key of A.  

A B C D E F G A
1         4   5
The A D and E chords are what you will play.  The structure of the 12 barre blues is as follows: 

AAAA  AAAA  AAAA AAAA DDDD DDDD AAAA AAAA EEEE DDDD  AAAA AAAA

Each Block is considered one measure.  The 4 notes here signify 4 beats in the measure.  You can see there are 12 measures of 4 beats in a  12 barre blues progression. 

You can play 12 barre blues in any key very easily if you can play barre chords.  The pattern will be the same for the key of G and the key of F and so on. 

Watch this video on  how to make barre chords at Fingerdexterity.com It will show you how easy barre chords can be learned and how quickly it will give you the ability to play every major chord on the guitar just by learning a few shapes that can be moved up and down the neck of the guitar. 




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