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Kirk Fletcher
Watch Kirk Fletcher Demonstrate His Favorite Blues Shuffles and Gospel Licks Take away some knowhow from one of the greatest blues guitarists around.
Johnny Winter
Five of Johnny Winter’s Top Tips for Guitar Players We’ve pulled out some of the blues-rock legend’s best pointers from the GP archives.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Expand Your Blues Vocabulary With These Essential Tunings, Scales and Chords No guitarist should miss out on these blues staples.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan

Expand Your Blues Vocabulary With These Essential Tunings, Scales and Chords

By Guitar Player Staff published 26 January 22

No guitarist should miss out on these blues staples.

BB Playing a 1960s Gibson ES-330TD

Here’s Some Blues You Can Really Use

By Rob Laing, Jon Bishop, Chris Bird published 26 January 22

Improve your playing with this master class on everything you need to know for better blues.

B.B. King performing at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on 6 July, 1969

Blues Turnarounds (Part 1)

By Phil Capone last updated 14 October 21

How to play soulful, harmonically effective melodies over the last four bars of a blues progression in the styles of the genre’s greatest players.

Stevie Ray Vaughan performing at First City in New York City on July 7, 1983.

Blues Turnarounds (Part 2)

By Phil Capone published 14 October 21

How to play soulful, harmonically effective melodies over the last four bars of a blues progression in the styles of the genre’s greatest players.

Brian Setzer

Learn Jump Blues in the Style of Brian Setzer, Hollywood Fats and Jeff Beck

By Phil Capone published 8 September 21

Three great jump blues practitioners that epitomize the signature techniques of their individual styles.

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown performs live at Meervaart in Amsterdam, Netherlands on March 19 1988

Leap Between Blues and Bebop Jazz with this Jump Blues Guitar Lesson

By Phil Capone published 7 September 21

Video Explore this exciting subgenre with extended musical examples inspired by the great Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Duke Robillard and Ronnie Earl.

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Gibson ES-335

Thinking Outside the Blues Box

By Jesse Gress published 20 July 21

Learn how to break free from blues clichés.

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