More Tips on How to Play Blues Guitar Chords

"I'm Rick Tobey on behalf of Expert Village and this is Blues Progressions Part 2. So, just to summarize, we've done the A blues progression with open chords. The open A seventh, the open D seventh and the E seventh and we learned how to put that to a shuffle beat. We added the hammer notes with the A, with the D, the E. And then, of course, we learned how to play that with bar chords. And it's important here to remember the nice rhythmic kind of sound you can get from lifting your fingers up and using the strings with your left hand. And then we learned how to add the hammer notes to the bar chord using essentially just two strings. And then we took it a step further and learned how to just take a riff and use it as a rhythm part. That was the A riff for "Checking Up on My Baby." Which, as I mentioned, you can use that in many, many different blues songs. It's a very popular and very standard blues riff. And then, taking that a step further, we added a few more notes, a little bit more rhythm and we played a riff on "Tell Me Mama." And then we also learned to play kind of a bass run playing the chord with the left hand. And playing this kind of a chunky rhythm sound. So these are all very useful tools you'll be able to incorporate in your blues guitar playing."