The Blues Guitar Show

By Ben Martin

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Welcome to The Blues Guitar Show! Your free audio guitar teacher, focusing on all things blues guitar, records, rocking music theory and gear.

Covering all the genres in the Blues world from Delta to Rockabilly.

Each Monday I release an episode packed with information, exercises, songs, licks and interviews with some of the best players around to give you Passion, Practice and Perseverance for your guitar playing journey! 

I'm a born and raised blues guitarist, studio musician and teacher on a mission to help you master the music you love.

Through this chart-topping podcast and interviews with some of the worlds best, our mission is to help dazed and confused blues pickers like you grasp the skills you need to go from ‘campfire’ to on fire.

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Website: www.thebluesguitarshow.com



Episode Date
🔒 Lesson #84 Stray Cats Double Stops
Nov 22, 2024
Episode #203 Where Does 'Tone' Come From?! Q & A Episode
Nov 18, 2024
🔒 Lesson #83 Double Stop 12 bars For Fingerpicking
Nov 15, 2024
Episode #202 The Triad Hack You Need!
Nov 13, 2024
🔒 Lesson #82 3 Must Know Bues Turnarounds
Nov 10, 2024
Episode #201 5 Tips For Learning Guitar Online in 2024
Nov 04, 2024
🔒 Lesson #81 Fundamental Delta Fingerpicking
Nov 01, 2024
Episode #200 James Oliver Talkin' Teles and Being One of the Busiest Players in the U.K
Oct 28, 2024
Lesson #80 5 Licks That Will Make You a Better Lead Player
Oct 25, 2024
Episode #199 My Honest Thoughts Clapton and His New Record
Oct 21, 2024
🔒 Lesson #79 Techniques to Improve Your SOLOS
Oct 18, 2024
Episode #198 Using Double-Stops to SOLO
Oct 14, 2024
🔒 Lesson #78 MUST-know Pentatonic Theory (How it all works)
Oct 11, 2024
Episode #197 Delta Blues Licks in Open G (SLIDE)
Oct 07, 2024
🔒 Lesson #77 Baba 'O Riley - The Perfect beginner SOLO
Oct 04, 2024
Episode #196 Top 5 British Blues Riffs (and how to play them!)
Sep 30, 2024
🔒 Lesson #76 Baba 'O Riley - Main Section
Sep 27, 2024
Episode #195 Thomas Heppell Interview
Sep 23, 2024
🔒 Lesson #75 Playing with a Backing Track
Sep 20, 2024
Episode #194 THE Delta Blues Technique
Sep 16, 2024
🔒 Lesson #74 Chord Outlining
Sep 13, 2024
Episode #193 Top 10 Hill Country Blues Artists
Sep 09, 2024
🔒 Lesson #73 How to USE the Minor Pentatonic
Sep 06, 2024
Episode #192 3 BIG Lessons I learned from going to Music College
Sep 02, 2024
Lesson #72 Improvising on a 12-Bar Using the Pentatonics
Aug 30, 2024
Episode #191 How to: Back Porch Blues
Aug 26, 2024
🔒 Lesson #71 Let it Be Fingerstyle Acoustic
Aug 23, 2024
Episode #190 Rolling Stones Wild Horses Lesson
Aug 19, 2024
🔒 Lesson #70 Minor Scale/Aeolian Mode Licks
Aug 16, 2024
Episode #189 5 Tips for Getting into Slide Playing
Aug 12, 2024
🔒 Lesson #69 Fingerpicking Blues Chords
Aug 09, 2024
Episode #188 3 Exercises for Fingerpicking Blues
Aug 05, 2024
🔒 Lesson #68 Bluegrass Licks
Aug 02, 2024
Episode #187 Take it Easy Solo Lesson
Jul 29, 2024
🔒 Lesson #67 Major Blues Scale, Licks and Techniques
Jul 26, 2024
Episode #186 Minor Pentatonic Hacks
Jul 22, 2024
🔒 Lesson #66 Major Pentatonic Blues Licks
Jul 19, 2024
Episode #185 5 Must Know Licks
Jul 15, 2024
🔒 Lesson #65 Partial Chords and Using CAGED
Jul 12, 2024
Episode #184 Top 5 Dos and Dont's for playing LIVE
Jul 08, 2024
🔒 Lesson #64 John Lee Hooker Style Hypnotic Riffs
Jul 05, 2024
Episode #183 What to Bring to a Blues Jam and Using CAGED for Solos
Jul 01, 2024
🔒 Lesson #63 Country Blues Fingerpicking
Jun 28, 2024
Episode #182 How to start Fingerpicking
Jun 24, 2024
🔒 Lesson #62 Acoustic Country Blues - Thumb Technique!
Jun 21, 2024
Episode #181 The Answer's Paul Mahon on touring & playing with one of the UK's best rock bands
Jun 17, 2024
Episode #180 Information Overload! Where to start with improvising
Jun 16, 2024
🔒 Lesson #61 Hill Country Blues
Jun 14, 2024
Episode #179 Surviving a blues jam and playing BASS
Jun 10, 2024
🔒 Lesson #60 Hotel California Solo Part 3
Jun 07, 2024
Episode #178 Top 5 Tips for Acoustic Blues
Jun 03, 2024
🔒 Lesson #59 Hotel California Solo Part 2
May 31, 2024
Episode #177 Talking Guitar Solos and Music with Seth Rosenbloom
May 27, 2024
🔒 Lesson #58 Hotel California Solo Part 1
May 24, 2024
Episode #176 Blues Turnarounds & Advice for Playing LIVE
May 20, 2024
🔒 Lesson #57 Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry
May 17, 2024
Episode #175 Pedal Steel COUNTRY LICKS for Guitar
May 13, 2024
🔒 Lesson #56 Using double stops - Lead Lessons from Tennessee Whiskey
May 10, 2024
Episode #175 Must Know Triads For Lead Guitar
May 06, 2024
🔒 Lesson #55 Using chords to SOLO
May 03, 2024
Episode #174 The T-Bone Walker Style Technique
Apr 29, 2024
🔒 Lesson #54 Adding Chords Into a 12 Bar
Apr 26, 2024
Episode #173 Ashley Sherlock Interview
Apr 22, 2024
🔒 Lesson #53 Chord Theory - Essential Barre Chords
Apr 19, 2024
Episode #172 Albert Collins - Frosty Lead Lesson Breakdown
Apr 15, 2024
🔒 Lesson #52 Major Pentatonic Licks You Can Use
Apr 12, 2024
Episode #171 Feedback Guitar Academy - Guitar Teacher Talk
Apr 08, 2024
🔒 Lesson #51 Minor Pentatonic Standard Tuning Slide Licks
Apr 05, 2024
Episode #170 Using Hypnotic Boogie Blues to Fix Your Picking Hand
Apr 01, 2024
🔒 Lesson #50 Minor Pentatonic Licks You Can Use!
Mar 29, 2024
Episode #169 Ned Evett - the King of the Glass Neck Fretless Guitar
Mar 25, 2024
🔒 Lesson #49 Sunshine of your Love
Mar 22, 2024
Episode #168 Chuck Berry Double Stop Licks
Mar 18, 2024
🔒 Lesson #48 Old Scales, New Tricks
Mar 15, 2024
Episode #167 Andrew Wiscombe - From Army Sniper to Award-Winning Songwriter
Mar 11, 2024
🔒 Lesson #47 Adding Jazz Chords to a Blues
Mar 08, 2024
Episode #166 David & The Devil
Mar 04, 2024
🔒 Lesson #46 The MODES (Mixolydian specifically!) Licks you can use
Mar 01, 2024
Episode #165 3 Tips For Mastering Your Blues Fingerpicking
Feb 26, 2024
🔒 Lesson #45 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Full Lesson
Feb 23, 2024
Episode #164 Led Zeppelin Going to California Lesson
Feb 19, 2024
🔒 Lesson #44 The One Note to add to your Minor Pentatonics
Feb 16, 2024
Episode #163 El Nico Talks Rockabilly, Surf & the DeathRayCat YouTube Channel
Feb 14, 2024
Episode #162 5 Ways to Become a Better Improviser
Feb 12, 2024
🔒 Lesson #43 The Minor Scale
Feb 09, 2024
Episode #161 Jonathan Wyndham Talks Guitar, Nashville, Touring & Writing
Feb 05, 2024
🔒 lesson #42 Since I've Been Loving You
Feb 02, 2024
Episode #160 You Need to Learn Chord Extensions
Jan 29, 2024
🔒 Lesson #41 Triplets for playing with Speed
Jan 26, 2024
Episode #159 Learn This Classic Billy Gibbons Riff
Jan 22, 2024
🔒 Lesson #40 3 Great Rock and Roll Licks
Jan 19, 2024
Episode #158 How to play like Albert King
Jan 15, 2024
🔒 Lesson #39 7th Chord Inversions for lead playing
Jan 12, 2024
Episode #157 Do THIS to Master the Fretboard
Jan 08, 2024
🔒 Lesson #38 Rock and Roll Double Stop Licks
Jan 05, 2024
Episode #156 Top 5 MUST Know Scales
Jan 01, 2024
🔒 Lesson #37 Free Bird Solo pt.2
Dec 29, 2023
Episode #155 Merry Axemas Gear Demos
Dec 25, 2023
Episode #154 Kaspar Berry Rapkin Interview
Dec 23, 2023
🔒 Lesson #36 Free Bird Slide Solo
Dec 22, 2023
Episode #153 You Need to Learn this Beatles Song
Dec 18, 2023
🔒 Lesson #35 Swamp Style Blues
Dec 15, 2023
Episode #152 Smokestack Lightning - Howlin' Wolf Lesson
Dec 11, 2023
🔒 lesson #34 Slide in Open D Tuning
Dec 08, 2023
Episode #151 B.B King Rock Me Baby Lesson
Dec 04, 2023
🔒 Lesson #33 A Complete 12-bar in Open G
Dec 01, 2023
Episode #150 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy Lesson
Nov 27, 2023
🔒 Lesson #32 Slide Riffs
Nov 24, 2023
Episode #149 Beatles - Day Tripper Lesson
Nov 20, 2023
🔒 Lesson #31 Slide Playing 101
Nov 17, 2023
Episode #148 Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones Lesson
Nov 13, 2023
🔒 Lesson #30 The Arpeggio Trick
Nov 10, 2023
Episode #147 Layla Acoustic - Eric Clapton Lesson
Nov 06, 2023
🔒 Lesson #29 Travis Picking Out of the Box
Nov 03, 2023
Episode #146 Hide Away Freddie King Lesson
Oct 30, 2023
🔒 Lesson #28 Using the fretboard and playing with 'Feel"
Oct 27, 2023
Episode #145 I'm Tore Down - Eric Clapton Lesson
Oct 23, 2023
🔒 Lesson #27 Fretboard Recognition
Oct 20, 2023
Episode #144 How To Play Hill Country Blues
Oct 16, 2023
🔒 Lesson 26 - Triads for Acoustic Playing
Oct 13, 2023
Episode #143 Rockabilly Weekend - Live Interviews & Review
Oct 11, 2023
Episode #142 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor Lesson
Oct 09, 2023
🔒 Lesson #25 Inversions and Scale Degrees
Oct 06, 2023
Episode #141 The CAGED Question!
Oct 02, 2023
🔒 Lesson #24 Improvising and Picking the Modes
Sep 29, 2023
Episode #139 Eddie 9V Talks Touring, Guitar, Blues & Recording in a Trailer!
Sep 25, 2023
🔒 Lesson #23 Fingerpicking Exercises
Sep 22, 2023
Episode #138 Muddy Waters - I Can't Be Satisfied - Slide Lesson
Sep 18, 2023
🔒 Lesson #22 Using the Pentatonic Shapes from Chords
Sep 15, 2023
Episode #137 Martyn Roper & Rich Miller Talk Steel Guitars and Slide Playing
Sep 11, 2023
🔒 Lesson #21 Fingerpicking & Inversions
Sep 08, 2023
Episode #136 Bassline Ties and Dwight Yoakam Licks
Sep 04, 2023
🔒 Lesson 20 - Blues Improvisation & Soloing re-cap
Sep 01, 2023
Episode #135 Rhythm -The missing ingredient in your playing
Aug 28, 2023
🔒 Lesson 19 - Top 5 licks
Aug 25, 2023
Episode #134 Jon Button on playing bass in The Who
Aug 21, 2023
🔒 Lesson 18 Using chords in Solos
Aug 18, 2023
Episode #133 Paul Pigat talks Cousin Harley, Rockabilly & Guitars
Aug 14, 2023
🔒 Lesson 17 Licks, Phrasing and Ornaments
Aug 11, 2023
Episode #131 Three Solos you NEED to learn
Aug 07, 2023
🔒 Lesson 16 - Double stops and harmony
Aug 04, 2023
Episode #130 Back Porch Blues - Solo Playing Tips
Jul 31, 2023
🔒 Lesson 15 - Mixing scales together
Jul 28, 2023
Episode #129 Garry Burnside Talks Hill Country Blues
Jul 24, 2023
🔒 Lesson 14 - Playing the Changes and Chord Spelling
Jul 21, 2023
Episode #128 Todd Roth Talks Blues, Cigar Box Guitars & Coming Up Muddy
Jul 19, 2023
Episode #127 Angus Young Riffs
Jul 17, 2023
🔒 Lesson 13 - Chord Tones & The Thrill Is Gone
Jul 14, 2023
Episode #126 Rich Miller Talks Slide Guitar
Jul 10, 2023
🔒 Lesson 12 - Arpeggios
Jul 07, 2023
Episode #125 Guitar Teacher Talk w/ Tim Daley
Jul 03, 2023
🔒 Lesson 11 - Finding Notes & CAGED
Jun 30, 2023
Episode #124 Learning New Solos and Making them 'Classy'
Jun 26, 2023
🔒 Lesson 10 - Triads and Licks
Jun 23, 2023
Episode #123 That Chuck Berry Lick
Jun 19, 2023
🔒 Lesson 9 - Major Licks
Jun 16, 2023
Episode #122 Dyer Davis Interview
Jun 12, 2023
🔒 Lesson 8 - Major pentatonics
Jun 09, 2023
Episode #121 Smokestack Lightnin'
Jun 05, 2023
🔒 Lesson 7 - Scale Runs & Improv
Jun 02, 2023
Episode #120 Ruzz Guitar's Blues Revue Interview
May 29, 2023
🔒 Lesson 6 - Playing the Changes
May 26, 2023
Episode #119 Top 10 Acoustic Blues Albums
May 22, 2023
🔒 Lesson 5 - Blues Licks for Better Solos
May 19, 2023
Episode #118 What Guitar Should I Buy Next?
May 15, 2023
🔒 Lesson 4 - The Five Shapes
May 12, 2023
Episode #117 The B.B. Box
May 08, 2023
🔒 Lesson 3 - The Blues Scale
May 05, 2023
Episode #116 Better than Epiphone?! Artist Guitars Brownburst 58 DLX Review
May 01, 2023
🔒 Lesson 2 - Learning the Fretboard by soloing
Apr 28, 2023
Episode #115 You're Better At Solos Than You Think
Apr 24, 2023
🔒 Lesson 1 - Minor Pentatonics
Apr 21, 2023
Episode #114 Top 10 Classic Rock Guitar Albums
Apr 17, 2023
Episode #113 Pentatonic Solo Hacks
Apr 10, 2023
Episode #112 Your Questions Answered
Apr 03, 2023
Episode #111 Slide in Open D
Mar 27, 2023
Episode #110 What Are The 'Blue' Notes?
Mar 20, 2023
Episode #109 David Hamburger Interview - Fretboard Confidential
Mar 13, 2023
Episode #108 Playing faster Solos
Mar 06, 2023
Episode #107 New Guitars, Old Tricks
Mar 01, 2023
Episode #106 Guitar Shopping
Feb 16, 2023
Episode #105 The 5 MUST know Jazz Chords
Feb 06, 2023
Episode #104 Stevie Ray Vaughan Licks
Jan 30, 2023
Episode #103 Danny Bryant Interview
Jan 23, 2023
Episode #102 The One Scale Hack You NEED
Jan 16, 2023
Episode #101 Goal Setting for 2023
Jan 09, 2023
Episode #100! Happy New Year (top 5 recs)
Dec 30, 2022
Episode #99 Top 5 Riffs
Dec 19, 2022
Episode #98 Guitar Solo - Pro Tips
Dec 09, 2022
Episode #97 Fingerpicking Routines
Dec 02, 2022
Episode #96 What guitar Do You Need?
Nov 25, 2022
Episode #95 Writing Blues Solos
Nov 16, 2022
Episode #94 Learning the Keys
Nov 01, 2022
Episode #93 Vamping Improvisation
Oct 28, 2022
Episode #92 Dylan Asena Interview
Oct 10, 2022
Episode #91 The Washboard Resonators
Sep 26, 2022
Episode #90 Mark Knopfler
Sep 12, 2022
Episode #89 Jerry Garcia
Sep 05, 2022
Episode #88 Blues Improvisation Special
Aug 30, 2022
Episode #87 Slide Basics & DADGAD
Aug 22, 2022
Episode #86 The Cinelli Brothers Interview
Aug 15, 2022
Episode #85 Eric Clapton - Hey Hey
Aug 08, 2022
Episode #84 Ryan Lee Crosby Interview
Aug 04, 2022
Episode #83 Robert Johnson - Main Section
Aug 01, 2022
Episode #82 Robert Johnson - Kind Hearted Woman Blues
Jul 25, 2022
Episode #81 Flatpicking III - Killer Jazz Licks
Jul 18, 2022
Episode #80 How to: Flatpicking II - Cowboy Shredding
Jul 11, 2022
Episode #79 How to: Flatpicking
Jul 04, 2022
Episode #78 How to: Blues Solos III
Jun 27, 2022
Episode #77 How To: Blues Solos II
Jun 20, 2022
Episode #76 How to: Blues Solos
Jun 13, 2022
Episode #75 Fingerpicking the Blues III
Jun 06, 2022
Episode #74 Fingerpicking the Blues II
May 23, 2022
Episode #73 Fingerpicking the Blues
May 16, 2022
Episode #72 The Blues Scale
Apr 25, 2022
Episode #71 Led Zeppelin III
Apr 18, 2022
Episode #70 John Lee Hooker
Apr 11, 2022
Episode #69 J. J Cale
Apr 04, 2022
Episode #68 The Who
Mar 28, 2022
Episode #67 Grateful Dead
Mar 21, 2022
Episode #66 B B King
Mar 14, 2022
Episode #66 Jimi Hendrix Blues
Mar 07, 2022
Episode #65 Rolling Stones Blues
Feb 28, 2022
Episode #64 Led Zeppelin Blues
Feb 21, 2022
Episode #63 Robert Johnson & Clapton Blues
Feb 14, 2022
Episode #62 Freddie King Blues
Feb 07, 2022
Episode #61 Muddy Waters Blues
Jan 31, 2022
Episode #60 Howlin Wolf Blues
Jan 24, 2022
Episode #59 Fingerpicking Country
Jan 17, 2022
Episode #58 Flatpicking Bluegrass
Jan 10, 2022
Episode #57 New Year, New Licks
Jan 03, 2022
Episode #56 Blues Melody
Dec 20, 2021
Episode #55 Bluesmen of the Year
Dec 06, 2021
Episode #54 Thumb Pickin'
Nov 29, 2021
Episode #53 Ragtime Licks
Nov 22, 2021
Episode #52 Travis Picking Again
Nov 15, 2021
Episode #51 Blues Harmony 101
Nov 08, 2021
Episode #50 Improvising Solos
Oct 25, 2021
Episode #49 Simple Spanish Guitar
Oct 18, 2021
Episode #48 Clapton - Classic Riffs
Oct 10, 2021
Episode #47 Eagles - Classic Riffs
Oct 03, 2021
Episode #46 The Jimmy Page Riff You Need to Know
Sep 26, 2021
Episode #45 Tasty Jazz Chords
Sep 19, 2021
Episode #44 Keeping it Simple
Sep 13, 2021
Episode #43 No Nonsense Music Theory
Sep 06, 2021
Episode #42 One Lick Country Solos
Aug 30, 2021
Episode #41 The 3 Things You Need to Practice Daily
Aug 23, 2021
Episode #40 The Peidmont Roll
Aug 16, 2021
Episode #39 The Delta Blues Pattern
Aug 09, 2021
Episode #38 Minor Pentatonic Practice-A-Long
Aug 05, 2021
Episode #37 Pick Like a Pro
Aug 02, 2021
Episode #36 How to "Country-up" Your Chords
Jul 26, 2021
Episode #35 Practice Routines and How to Structure Them
Jul 19, 2021
Episode #34 Practice-A-Long 30 Minute Practice Session
Jul 09, 2021
Episode #33 Hacks to Improve Your Guitar Playing Quickly
Jul 05, 2021
Episode #32 Can You Learn Guitar On Youtube?
Jun 28, 2021
Episode #31 Eric Clapton's Acoustic Blues
Jun 23, 2021
Episode #30 DADGAD Celtic Blues & Rory Gallagher
Jun 15, 2021
Episode #29 B.B King Solos & Why They Rock
May 24, 2021
Episode #28 Learn Arpeggios Not Scales
May 21, 2021
Episode #27 The Blues Lick You Need To Know
May 17, 2021
Episode #26 Country Triads & My New Guitar
May 14, 2021
Episode #25 What is Chord Stacking?
May 10, 2021
Episode #24 Theory of Blues Solos
May 04, 2021
Episode #23 Tasty Robert Johnson Licks
Apr 25, 2021
Episode #22 The Delta Blues of Big Joe Williams
Apr 22, 2021
Episode #21 Blues You Can Use
Apr 19, 2021
Episode #20 The Coolest Fingerstyle Licks
Apr 15, 2021
Episode #19 Country Licks & Solos
Apr 08, 2021
Episode #18 One Scale Blues Solos
Mar 08, 2021
Episode #17 Playing in Every Key (with just two chords)
Feb 22, 2021
Episode #16 Country Licks and Scales
Jan 19, 2021
Episode #15 Fingerstyle Blues in A
Jan 16, 2021
Episode #14 Country Blues
Jan 07, 2021
Episode #13 Unlocking The Fretboard
Nov 26, 2020
Episode #12 Flat Picking & Bluegrass Runs
Nov 13, 2020
Episode #11 Slide Techniques and Open D
Aug 10, 2020
Episode #10 Essential Travis Picking Techniques
Aug 03, 2020
Episode #9 Gear Review and D'Addario Re-String Event
Jul 20, 2020
Episode #8 Self Accompaniment Blues
Jun 16, 2020
Episode #7 - Practice Routines - What, How When & Why
Jun 09, 2020
Episode #6 Essential Scales for Blues
Jun 04, 2020
Episode #5 Fretboard Visualization Part 2
May 09, 2020
Episode #4 Delta Blues Picking
Apr 21, 2020
Bonus Episode Jimi Hendrix style focus
Apr 16, 2020
Episode #3 Fretboard Visualization
Apr 09, 2020
Episode #2 12Bars and 7ths
Apr 02, 2020
Bonus Episode Stevie Ray Vaughan (Style Focus)
Mar 30, 2020
#1 Travis Picking the Blues
Mar 23, 2020