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	Easy Songs For Stage 5 The Justinguitar.com Beginner's Course
	More songs for the Stage 5 peeps, lotta blues at this stage! Next Lesson Get help with this lesson Previous Lesson

And now that you have so many 7 chords in your repertoire you can play a HUGE Number of Blues Standards in a four keys. Below the well known songs are basic "12 Bar Blues" chord progressions for you to play about with, any 12 bar blues song will work in any key, you should find the key that works best for you voice if you want to sing, or the one you find most comfortable to play if you want to just play!

Blues is awesome on guitar and after the Beginner Course many people move onto the Blues Lead Guitar Course which starts with pretty easy beginner level stuff and gets into Intermediate level techniques and concepts. If that's a path you might dig, then make sure you add a couple of blues songs to your repertoire for regular practice!

Hope it's going great for you and you're enjoying your new musical self :)

Songs from Stage 5

Songs From The JustinGuitar Beginner Songbook Volume 1: BS-501 • Before You Accuse Me - Eric Clapton BS-502 • Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash BS-507 • Going Down Slow - Blues Standard BS-510 • That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly

Songs From The JustinGuitar Beginner Songbook Volume 2: BS-520 • Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets BS-521 • Smokestack Lightnin' - Howlin Wolf BS-522 • Blue Suede Shoes - Elvis Presley BS-523 • Mustang Sally - Wilson Picket / The Commitments BS-524 • Walking The Dog - The Rolling Stones

12 Bar Blues chord progressions (that fit hundreds of songs!)

Note that there are many variations of the 12 Bar Blues, but these are shown in the most basic form. If you stick around, you'll learn more about that in the Intermediate Module, Blues Rhythm Guitar!

Blues In A:
| A7 - - - | A7 - - - | A7 - - - | A7 - - - |
| D7 - - - | D7 - - - | A7 - - - | A7 - - - |
| E7 - - - | D7 - - - | A7 - - - | E7 - - - |

Blues In E:
| E7 - - - | E7 - - - | E7 - - - | E7 - - - |
| A7 - - - | A7 - - - | E7 - - - | E7 - - - |
| B7 - - - | A7 - - - | E7 - - - | B7 - - - |

Blues In G:
| G7 - - - | G7 - - - | G7 - - - | G7 - - - |
| C7 - - - | C7 - - - | G7 - - - | G7 - - - |
| D7 - - - | C7 - - - | G7 - - - | D7 - - - |

Blues In D:
| D7 - - - | D7 - - - | D7 - - - | D7 - - - |
| G7 - - - | G7 - - - | D7 - - - | D7 - - - |
| A7 - - - | G7 - - - | D7 - - - | A7 - - - |

 

 

Now lets get listening to them and working on our ear development with BC-158 • JUSTIN training exercises