learn to play the blues guitar and more***

you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues and you know it dont come easy.

thats true and it aint no lie.

so you buy a guitar, get a chord book and an electronic tuner and away you go.

yep. and flail and flail to no avail.

unless you join a band and you all pull yourselves up together then there is only one way.

listen listen and listen.

if you buy a book then you are locked into someone elses finger patterns and when you play the other guys will accuse you of "practising".

hehehehehehehehehe.

if you have to do it that way then do it. you get there in the end.

YOu can buy Jim Weiders DVD and learn all the moves to Freddy Kings "Hideaway" and a few others besides which I reccomend but above allisten till your ears fall off and eventually yo get it.

so who do you listen to?

Elmore James.

Muddy Waters.

Eric Clapton. (the beano album, with a full version of Hideaway)

and the greatest of them all, ta da, "Mike Bloomfield's" Super Session.

He only plays on half the album but tracks 1 and 5 have to be the most exquisitely beautiful blues instrumentals ever recorded. Fear not. track 1 is in G and track 5 is in C. Just strum the progression over the music and count the bars till it becomes automatic and soon you will have it dudes. Beleive me.

the Count goes like this for a twelve bar blues.

1234

2234

3234

4234

5234

6234

7234

8234

9234

10,234

11,234

12,234

Until you master this and install the schema into  the uncoscious and on automatic you are pushing sh*t uphill with a pointed stick.

So keep at it.

Dont give up.