We’re going super basic today for the beginners, just a basic 12 bar blues in E, nothing fancy. 

You’ll learn the chords and a simple strum, no stretching or awkward fingerings at all.

If this is your speed, you really need my Beginning Blues Guitar course to get all the basics down right.

 

 

 

 

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    25 replies to "Beginning 12 Bar Blues Easy Guitar Lesson"

    • Michael Chappell

      Hey Griff, This is always a great refresher and it is good to do it in A and G as well. Got one of my Acoustic Electrics out to do this with you again.. great.

      Thanks

      Michael- Sydney- Australia 7 July 2019.

    • Kimberley

      Thanks a million Griff

    • Ron Duke

      Griff, what gauge pick do you use, I am using a .73 gauge and don’t like the sound I an getting, but like what I hear from you.

      Thanks

      Ron Duke

    • Robyn

      griff, thanks for a good simple lesson. All that fancy stuff is lost on me. this was very helpful.

    • arlie

      what model number is that taylor guitar???

      • BillM

        It’s a 414CE

    • Dave

      Thanks for making this video Griff, everyone needs to be reminded to count out loud. I forwarded your email to my daughter who is just beginning to play and I know it will help her a lot. Best wishes to you and your family.

    • Kenneth

      sometime it is good to take a step back…..thanks Griff.

    • JimS

      I discovered that I can pause the video by clicking in the middle of the screen, but this U-Tube video does not allow the viewer to skip ahead nor behind to view segments of the lesson. This makes it difficult to back up if a part is missed or clarification is needed. Frustrating.

      Otherwise, Thanks Griff for your many great lessons. You are a great teacher!
      JimS

      • Griff

        Click on the “YouTube” logo in the lower right corner and it’ll come up in YouTube where you can scrub or adjust as needed.

      • Frank Payton

        Jim, Griff provides MP4 and WMV downloads on this page…. they are fully functional.

      • John

        when working with you tube videos I have found you can place the cursor from the mouse over the red line at the bottom of the screen either prior or after the current position of the video and left click the mouse it should move the video forward or back to the position of the cursor on the red line.
        Hope this helps out keep on Rockin !!

        John

      • chris

        jim the progress bar at bottom of the video has a dot and line that moves as video plays just put your finher tip on the dot and zlide it right to move ahead left to back the video up i do it all the time have fun with it

      • Michael Chappell

        Hi Jim,

        Yes you can simply click on the Red line and hold with your mouse and drag it back or forward then release also to repeat a segment again just note the time mins & seconds where it was of that patch so you can aim for it in the drag backwards or forwards. Hope that helps. I’m using a laptop in Win 7 pro so may depend on what computer system you are using.

      • Michael Chappell

        Hi Jim S,

        Yes you can simply click on the Red line and hold with your mouse and drag it back or forward then release also to repeat a segment again just note the time mins & seconds where it was of that patch so you can aim for it in the drag backwards or forwards. Hope that helps. I’m using a laptop in Win 7 pro so may depend on what computer system you are using.

    • Paul

      Thank you! You know, I’ll make a lot of advances and get going pretty far and then l’ll set the Guitar down for too long and have to come back to the basic stuff. Thanks for interjecting the easy stuff too!

    • Rohn

      Nice that you talk to the beginners Griff E F B7 are my favorite chords first ones I learned along with Spider and the Fly Rolling Stones

      To the beginners Learn this lesson well it will stick with you for life its a great foundation
      Rohn

      • Eel1948

        One of my favorite Stones songs. However it’s E A B7. Give it a try, typical 1-4-5 blues progression!

    • Bobby Ut

      You are truly an ALL-STAR teacher my friend! You reach out to all levels of players and always good to touch base with the roots of making music. Not all great players (like you Griff) are able to teach well. As good as a player is Joe B., when he goes to teach a concept on YouTube et al, it’s like Stephen Hawkins talking to Albert Einstein about relativity!!!! Blues On!!!

    • Terry Tosh

      Very nice explanation and illustration of several essential fundamentals!

    • Glenn.Lego

      I have the BEGINNING BLUES GUITAR course, but I wasn’t able to get anything from it until I saw this video. From child hood, I’ve been the kind of learner that I can only get something out of a learning experience if I actually see someone doing whatever I’m trying to learn and then trying it myself. Does me no good just to read out of a book and then try and struggle through the written instructions.😳

      • Glenn.Lego

        I can go step by step through a set of written instructions and still mess up the project.

        • Eddy

          You’re not alone.me too

      • Frank Payton

        Did you not get the complete course? When I first started with Griff, I purchased BBG Unleashed which had very good video as well as written instruction.

    • Russ Eckam

      Been there . Have to crawl before you can walk walk before you can run.😊 always good to practice and have a good solid foundation of the basics. If you know these basics it Make a everything else fall in place build a good foundation a STRONG house

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