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How to play fingerstyle blues guitar: part 2
A tab and audio lesson on self-accompaniment
Guitar Techniques (Stuart Ryan), Thu 9 Jul 2009, 3:28 pm UTC
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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.
