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Part of the video series: How to Learn Blues Chord Progressions: Vol 1

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play blues chords in this free video clip on guitar lessons and music theory.

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Rick Tobey Rick Tobey has been playing guitar for over 30 years. He plays professionally as a solo blues artist and in his band. His blues band won the 2007 Cape Fear Bl... read more

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Tips on Playing Blues Chords

RICK TOBEY: I'm Rick Tobey and in this series, we will be learning how to play blues progressions and a blues song on behalf of Expert Village. Now, in this section, we're going to learn how to play a blues song, the song "Little Red Rooster" and this song involves three chords. We're playing it in the key of E, there's an E7 chord, an A, A7 or just an A and we'll learn different variations of how to play that chord. And then there's a B7 and there again, we'll learn different variations and these are all what we call open chords. And then later on in this series, we'll learn how to play some barre chords but basically, the blues progression generally involves three chords; what is called the I chord, the IV chord and the V chord and these are based on the notes of the scale. The first note in the scale is E, the fourth note in the scale is A and the fifth note in the scale is B, so now we'll learn each chord individually and then put them together and play the song.

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