Easy Blues Guitar Songs Using Only 3 Guitar Chords
As a beginner, you don't want to waste time learning a lot of music theory.
You want to be able to quickly learn how to play a song on a guitar.
Here are four songs by blues legends that you can learn to play right now by using only three chords.
When learning anything new, you need to start with the basics.
These basics include guitar chords, chord changes, and basic strumming patterns.
By learning to play these four songs you will build a strong foundation for your blues guitar skills.
From here, you can apply what you learn, add more chords, and learn even more songs - fast.
These four songs use the same three guitar chords - A, D, and E.
Once you learn these chords, play along with a recording of the song.
Each song has a different tempo and a different feel.
By playing with the song you'll learn much faster.
Back Where It All Begins by the Allman Brothers "Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by The Allman Brothers Band.
"No One to Run With" got the greatest amount of album-oriented rock airplay.
"Soulshine", written by Warren Haynes, also became a hit, as did the lengthy title cut.
This sold considerably better than its predecessor, Shades of Two Worlds.
In 1998, the album went Gold.
Nevertheless, critical reception was weaker.
This was also the last studio album the group recorded with original second guitarist Dickey Betts.
One Way Out by Elmore James "One Way Out" is a blues song first recorded and released in the early-mid 1960s by Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James, an R&B hit under a different name for G.
L.
Crockett in the mid-1960s, and then popularized to rock audiences in the early 1970s and onward by The Allman Brothers Band.
Whatever its origins, the song's narrative captures the classic tale of a man being with another man's woman in an upstairs bedroom.
Someone comes to the front door unexpectedly, and our lover must plan a hasty exit out a window: "Ain't but one way out baby, Lord I just can't go out the door - Ain't but one way out baby, and Lord I just can't go out the door! 'Cause there's a man down there, might be your old man...
I don't know.
" Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton "Lay Down Sally" is a single by Eric Clapton.
It appeared on his November 1977 album Slowhand, and reached No.
3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It is a shuffle performed in the style of J.
J.
Cale and Clapton also attributed other members of his band like Carl Radle of Oklahoma, George Terry, Oldaker and other members of the band as influencing the song.
The single was a crossover country music hit, reaching No.
26 in April 1978, Clapton's best showing on that chart.
Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll" was first released as the second track from the Zeppelin's fourth album in 1971.
This song is based on one of the most popular structures in rock and roll, the 12 bar blues progression (in A).
"Rock and Roll" stands as one of the best-known songs in the band's catalogue.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has said that this song came to be written as a spontaneous jam session.
"Rock and Roll" is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs where all four members share the composer credit.
Learn these three guitar chords, A, D, and E, and start playing one new song today.
You want to be able to quickly learn how to play a song on a guitar.
Here are four songs by blues legends that you can learn to play right now by using only three chords.
When learning anything new, you need to start with the basics.
These basics include guitar chords, chord changes, and basic strumming patterns.
By learning to play these four songs you will build a strong foundation for your blues guitar skills.
From here, you can apply what you learn, add more chords, and learn even more songs - fast.
These four songs use the same three guitar chords - A, D, and E.
Once you learn these chords, play along with a recording of the song.
Each song has a different tempo and a different feel.
By playing with the song you'll learn much faster.
Back Where It All Begins by the Allman Brothers "Where It All Begins" is a 1994 studio album by The Allman Brothers Band.
"No One to Run With" got the greatest amount of album-oriented rock airplay.
"Soulshine", written by Warren Haynes, also became a hit, as did the lengthy title cut.
This sold considerably better than its predecessor, Shades of Two Worlds.
In 1998, the album went Gold.
Nevertheless, critical reception was weaker.
This was also the last studio album the group recorded with original second guitarist Dickey Betts.
One Way Out by Elmore James "One Way Out" is a blues song first recorded and released in the early-mid 1960s by Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James, an R&B hit under a different name for G.
L.
Crockett in the mid-1960s, and then popularized to rock audiences in the early 1970s and onward by The Allman Brothers Band.
Whatever its origins, the song's narrative captures the classic tale of a man being with another man's woman in an upstairs bedroom.
Someone comes to the front door unexpectedly, and our lover must plan a hasty exit out a window: "Ain't but one way out baby, Lord I just can't go out the door - Ain't but one way out baby, and Lord I just can't go out the door! 'Cause there's a man down there, might be your old man...
I don't know.
" Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton "Lay Down Sally" is a single by Eric Clapton.
It appeared on his November 1977 album Slowhand, and reached No.
3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
It is a shuffle performed in the style of J.
J.
Cale and Clapton also attributed other members of his band like Carl Radle of Oklahoma, George Terry, Oldaker and other members of the band as influencing the song.
The single was a crossover country music hit, reaching No.
26 in April 1978, Clapton's best showing on that chart.
Rock And Roll by Led Zeppelin "Rock and Roll" was first released as the second track from the Zeppelin's fourth album in 1971.
This song is based on one of the most popular structures in rock and roll, the 12 bar blues progression (in A).
"Rock and Roll" stands as one of the best-known songs in the band's catalogue.
Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page has said that this song came to be written as a spontaneous jam session.
"Rock and Roll" is one of the few Led Zeppelin songs where all four members share the composer credit.
Learn these three guitar chords, A, D, and E, and start playing one new song today.
