This 12 bar blues solo will have a very basic separate bass and melody line. It’s just a straight quarter note bass line (sometimes referred to as “dead thumb”) with a two note, repetitious, quarter note lead line. The purpose of this solo is to get a feel for for playing independent lines with thumb and fingers. This might be too easy for some folks and challenging for others. Download the PDF below and follow the notation and/or tab slowly. Check out the video for a little extra insight.
Thanks, John! Your Acoustic Blues etudes are pretty cool! I’m continuously looking for entire choruses of blues solos (specifically conceptualised as a solo piece for one guitar player) suitable for beginners and I often come across material that is simply to hard for many of my students. Have you published entire methods like this? Regards – Tim.
Hey Tim – I am really flattered that you found my stuff cool enough to comment on.
I do not have a complete method on this.
I made 5 of these acoustic blues studies. I think at the time I intended to do more but got sidetracked with the next thing.
Now you have me thinking I should do some more. Really glad you found these useful so hope you can use them with your students. If there is anything else on my website or YouTube channel, please do!
Thanks again for reaching out!
John L