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Traditional Acoustic Blues Guitar - For Beginners (Udemy.com)

Part I - Introduction to Country Blues Guitar

4.4
71 reviews

Created by: David Moore

Last updated April 2019

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What you will learn

  • Play traditional-style acoustic blues using both an alternating & monotonic bass pattern - and, in a variety of keys.

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  • Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 15% of them
  • Reviews71#138 of 184 by number of reviews
  • Length9.4 hourslonger than 88% of them
  • Last updatedApril 2019earlier than 69% of them

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Course Description

     In this course you will learn how to play blues on the acoustic guitar as it was done on the recordings of the 1920s and 1930s.    We will start by learning the basic concepts needed to understand this style of guitar playing - mainly the alternating and monotonic bass lines.    Then I will teach you all of the basic chords needed to play acoustic blues guitar and give you a number of practice exercises to help you learn and master each one.     In the main part of the course,   I will teach you 25 different acoustic blues songs - five in each of the most commonly used keys.   This will allow you to apply what you have learned and learn the nuances of playing in each key.   The songs covered are:

Key of C

- "Ella Speed" by Mance Lipscomb

- "East St. Louis Blues" by Blind Willie McTell

- "Ain't No Tellin' " by Mississippi John Hurt

-  "I'm Busy and You Can't Come In" by Sylvester Weaver (Instrumental)

- "Hesitation Blues" by Reverend Gary Davis


Key of E

- "Groundhog Day Blues" by Lil' Son Jackson

- "Mojo Hand" by Lightning Hopkins

- "Annie's Boogie" by Lightning Hopkins (Instrumental)

- "Sugar Babe" by Mance Lipscomb

-  "Key to The Highway" by Big Bill Broonzy


Key of A

- Robert Johnson Style in A

- "Keep Away From My Woman" by Blind Boy Fuller

- "Blues Come to Texas" by Lil' Son Jackson

- "Coffee Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt

- "Moppers Blues" by Big Bill Broonzy

Key of D

- "Stack O' Lee" by Mississippi John Hurt

- "Big Road Blues" by Tommy Johnson

- "Canned Heat" by Tommy Johnson

- "Old Country Rock" by WIlliam Moore (Instrumental)

- "Chump Man Blues" by Blind Blake


Key of G

- "Step It Up and Go" by Blind Boy Fuller

- "Love In Vain" by Robert Johnson

- "Casey Jones" by Mississippi John Hurt

- "That'll Never Happen No More" by Blind Blake

- "Bye Bye Baby" by Little Hat Jones



  Each lesson teaches the basic song plus any chords, introductions, fill-licks, bridges, solos, and end tags!  

When you are finished with this course, you should be well on your way to being able to play authentic country blues guitar and figure out more songs on your own!  

Make no mistake here - you are getting a shi#load of instruction for the money!!!!   

Basic TABS are included for each lecture.  I am just getting started with Guitar Pro 7.  Please note that I do not TAB out the entire songs in this series!  I only TAB out what I teach.  The TABS are very basic, but accurate.  I plan on revising and adding to the TABS for this lesson as I become more skilled with the GP7 software.  Let me know what you think! 

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Instructor Details

David Moore

     Dave Moore is a high school history teacher who has spent most of his adult life playing and studying traditional electric and acoustic blues guitar.    Over the years, Dave has played with such blues legends as Pinetop Perkins, the late Barrelhouse Chuck, Big Time Sarah, Ricky Nye, country blues legend Yank Rachel, saxophonist Ab Locke, and the Cleveland area band Blue Lunch.    For the past ten years, Dave has maintained a popular You Tube Channel offering lessons in both traditional acoustic and electric blues guitar - Old School Blues Guitar.    

     With 30 years of classroom experience, Dave is an accomplished instructor who excels at making things simple and easy to understand for all of his students.  If you want to learn how to play a ton of traditional blues guitar, for a reasonable price, this is the instructor for you!   

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By River Saturn on 11/27/2025

He talks about tabs for these first parts in the resources. But, they don't exist until part 16. I was able to figure things out without the tabs. but I've been playing for awhile. A beginner could easily get lost. There are lots of diagrams in the web

By Robert Speirs on 3/16/2023

Mr Moore knows exactly the genre and conveys it well to the student. I am very happy with this course. Thanks for all the hard work i will do my best to do take it on board.

By Matt on 7/28/2020

Dave is great. His class is a lot of fun. And I’ve learned a whole lot, so far. His teaching method is excellent.

By Luc Charpentier on 5/11/2020

Learning the first song. It is disappointing that the tabs seem to have been put together haphazardly and do not match the playing. A bit more effort shouldhave been put into creating accurate tabs. Now on another song and the same applies... The tabs are porly (all quarter notes...). In the end you have to play the video at different speeds to figure what is going on. I could do the same thing with free Youtube videos

By Kevin on 3/11/2020

Easy for me to say that the approach is too slow as I have been playing some time. I expect I will need it to be slow as the course advances.

By Janice Andrews on 2/4/2020

So far, so good.Looks like hard, challenging work with a big pay-off of Being able to play great songs.

By Jay Rivera on 2/2/2020

David Moore is honest about what your expectations should be going into the course.

By Richard Kacsur on 10/25/2019

I've been playing about 50+ years. I find you can always learn something when you go back to the basics. I thought this would be a good place to start and get familiar with the product

By Thomas Curry on 9/27/2019

Excellent information, well explained.

By Alex Gibby on 8/31/2019

great, im at an intermediate level of picking, so im managing to follow along very well to some great playing

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