101 Best Blues Songs to Learn on Guitar
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61. Laundromat Blues On Guitar | Albert King
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Unlock this sliding 6ths riff used in countless slow blues tunes. This lesson is in the key of Bb.
62. Leaving Trunk | Taj Mahal
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
This blues uses a power-chord-based rhythm part in the key of Bb.
63. Life By the Drop | Stevie Ray Vaughan
Level: 🎸🎸🎸Advanced
If you’re looking to improve your 12-string blues guitar playing, look no further than this ‘Life By The Drop’ guitar lesson. In this post, I’ll share with you how to play the version of the song as recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan. Vaughan’s recording was done on a 12-string acoustic guitar, and it is chock full of incredible blues guitar techniques, chords, scales, and concepts you can steal and add to your own guitar playing. Check out a longer lesson here.
64. Little Red Rooster | Howlin' Wolf
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Break out the slide and tune your guitar to open G for this classic.
65. Lonesome Whistle Blues | Freddie King
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Just three chords in the key of C are all you need to play this classic Freddie King style blues C7, F7, and G7.
66. Long Train Running | The Doobie Brothers
Level: 🎸🎸🎸Advanced
This groove combines a 16th-note rhythm pattern with some lush-sounding minor chord shapes.
67. Love Me Two Times | The Doors
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Again not a traditional blues, however, the verse riff is a super fun way to use fingerpicking and blues progressions together.
68. Love Struck Baby | Stevie Ray Vaughan
Level: 🎸🎸🎸Advanced
A ripping blues in the key of Ab, however, SRV tuned down ½ step and just played it in A.
69. Malted Milk | Eric Clapton
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
A classic Robert Johnson tune interpreted by Clapton. This version gets a great back-porch blues sound.
70. Mary Had A Little Lamb | Stevie Ray Vaughan
Level: 🎸🎸🎸Advanced
This one is not quite as simple as the nursery rhyme song! The verses use an 8-bar form, but the solos are over a 12-bar form.
71. Mean Old Frisco | Eric Clapton
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Grab a slide and tune your guitar to open E for this one, and then put a capo on the 3rd fret.
72. Meet Me In The Morning | Bob Dylan
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Bob Dylan used a lot of open tunings on this album, however in this lesson I’ll share a way of playing this 12-bar blues folk riff in standard tuning.
73. My Babe | Little Walter
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
A must-know blues tune in the key of F. There are two guitars on the recording but here is a way to play both parts.
74. Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Derek & The Dominos
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
A blues classic in the key of C, and in a 6/8 time signature.
75. Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out | Eric Clapton
Nobody Knows You When Your Down And Out | Eric Clapton
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
This blues standard was originally written by Jimmy Cox and it goes all the way back to 1929. Click here to go to a longer lesson on this song.
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Here is also how to solo over this 8-bar blues progression.
76. Pride and Joy The Stevie Ray Vaughan Riff So Many Play Wrong
Level: 🎸🎸🎸Advanced
A tricky shuffle pattern combining lots of strum hand muting and a deep blues shuffle groove.
77. Rave On | Buddy Holly
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
A classic blues shuffle pattern, in this lesson we’ll use a capo on the 3rd fret and play in the key of E.
78. Rock Around The Clock | Bill Haley & His Comets
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Discover an iconic 50’s rockabilly style blues in the key of A.
79. Same Old Blues | Freddie King
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Unlock your arpeggio picking in a 6/8 time signature with this blues classic.
80. San Francisco Bay Blues | Eric Clapton
Level: 🎸🎸Intermediate
Grab a kazoo and dive into another great classic from the Clapton Unplugged album.
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