So you want to learn to play the blues guitar, or give the gift of blues guitar. In order to do this there are a few things that you will need to do. In this article we look at these things and put you on the road to playing some sweet blues yourself.

The first thing that you will need is a guitar. Having your own guitar will enable you to practice as much as possible. Selecting the right guitar will partly be down to the budget that you have available to spend. Try and spend as much as you can afford on the best quality guitar you can get, but make sure that you shop around so that you understand a fair price for the guitar that you are buying.

Once you have your guitar you need to start to learn the basics. Get hold of a chord book and learn some of the basic chords for yourself. At this stage don’t worry about learning complete songs, the key here is to gain the dexterity in your fingers to take on more complicated stuff. Check out some of the free blues guitar lessons online.

Once you have gained a bit of confidence you may want to start thinking about getting professional lessons. If blues guitar is your thing then look for a tutor locally who can offer you blues guitar lessons. This will give you a great foundation for all of your future guitar playing as the blues guitar is the music that all genres coming since the blues is based on. Getting a solid foundation in the blues will make you a much better player.

Follow these basic steps and you will be a long way down the road to becoming a competent blues guitar player. Once you have gone through these steps you just need to make sure that you apply what you have learnt and practice, practice, practice!