Playing the 12-Bar Blues on Guitar

Video Transcript

"You might not know yet that you've heard of the 12 bar blues. You might have heard the signature riff on the 12 bar blues. We'll learn how to play it too. You're going to be playing your open A and the second fret of your D string first (just these two). What you are going to want to do is play, two strums on just those two notes. Now take your third finger and play the fourth fret of the D string, the open A (the fourth fret there). Your fourth finger will play the fifth fret and then you go back to the fourth fret. Now, you feel that? There's a swing feel to that. You can move down each thing, this will represent the four chord. You move back up then for the E, back to the D. Give it and E7 chord turn around. You use on your right hand over here the back of your palm. You can make this more of a rhythmic riff. This is called a palm mute. You barely use part of your palm (right here, the left side) to touch the strings like so. Just kind of condense them a bit. Swing those eighth notes. Hold that first eighth note a little longer. It not (example). It's 1 2 3 4 and 1 2 3 4. Think about skipping (still counting)."