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In this series of tab and audio lessons, Guitar Techniques magazine's Stuart Ryan takes you through a gigantic acoustic method for playing fingerstyle blues. This is part two of the series – check out lesson number one here.

Part 2: Self-accompaniment in standard tuning

In the first lesson of this series, we looked at some examples in DADGAD tuning – but of course, not all blues is in alternative tunings. Here's something in standard to keep you busy.

Standard tuning uses all those familiar shapes we know and love - especially around the first few frets - and by looking at photos of the old-time players we can often tell whether they are in standard or alternative tuning.

Audio

Next page: tab for the audio example