In this lesson, you’ll learn one easy guitar lick for kids in the style of legendary rock guitarist Chuck Berry. At the end of this series of rock soloing lessons for kids, I’ll show you how to combine these licks to create compelling guitar solos. What in the World is a Guitar Solo? Let’s be honest: […]
Category: Blues
The “Peter Gunn” Blues
In this lesson, we’re going to learn a simple 12-bar blues based on the theme song of Peter Gunn, a hit detective show from the 1950s. The original “Peter Gunn Theme,” composed by Henry Mancini, won an Emmy Award and two Grammys and has been covered by a number of jazz, blues, and rock musicians over the years. […]
Lesson 1- Boogie Blues in G Major
Today, we’re going to look at an easy 12-bar boogie boogie blues in the key of G. The boogie woogie originated in the 1920s by African-American piano players like Pintetop Smith. John Lee Hooker’s “Boogie Chillen” and Eric Clapton’s “I’m Tore Down” are two iconic examples of the boogie woogie played on the guitar. The […]