Are Blues Guitar Lessons right for Beginners?

There are a lot of blues fans out there that eventually become guitar players themselves

. How ever learning the blues isn't always the best place to start for beginners. I've outlined three questions to ask yourself before you decide whether blues guitar lessons are the best place for you to start. After answering these three questions honestly for yourself you'll be better equipped to know where you should start.

Can you Play Chords

Right off the bat if you're not able to play the basic open chords then definitely skip blues guitar lessons and look for a beginner course. The basics of the blues revolves around the 12 bar blues pattern which requires you to know your basic chords.

The basic chords you should know are: A, B, C, D, E, F and G also knowing the minor versions would be helpful

This is a skill you can teach yourself how ever through online videos and tutorials.

Do You Understand the Guitar Neck

By understanding the neck I mean: do you know the different places you can form chords on the neck? Do understand the fret spacing between each note? These are important things to memorize in order to easily play blues chord progressions and scales in different keys.

Blues songs generally follow very similar patterns but they move around the neck depending on what key they're being played in. If you don't know how to move from where you're currently playing in the Key of A to the Key of D then you can get lost pretty fast

Have you Ever Taken Lessons Before

If you have never taken any guitar lessons before, nor have you even tried to teach yourself anything on the guitar then definitely do not start with the blues. Take a couple of months of basic lessons that will teach you: string names, notes, chords etc.

After you have the basics down you can start translating those over to the blues.

If you were hoping that you could just skip the boring basics of the guitar and move right on into learning the blues I apologize to let you down. Trust me you'll enjoy learning blues guitar a lot more if you're armed with the right information and skills before you start taking blues guitar lessons.

Are Blues Guitar Lessons right for Beginners?

By: Ian Fraser

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