Cool, Easy, Blues Guitar Chords

Spice up your blues chord chops today!

Playing blues may seems easy, but if you want to make it sound cool, like the old Blues Masters while playing rhythm blues guitar, you better learn some simple 7th and 9th chord shapes. In this lesson I’ll show you some of these chords and some tricks to put a bit of color into your 12 bars blues rhythm guitar playing. It isn’t hard to do, so let’s see what you are gonna learn today.

A7, D7, and E7 chord shape. These are powerful but simple blues guitar chords which often sound better than open chords or barre chords
D9 and E9. These are chord substitutes for D7 and E7.They are totally interchangeable, so you can experiment with swapping between them.
These chord shapes are moveable, I’ll let you know how to do that.

With these chord shapes, you will find your blues playing way cooler and more colorful, and you will sound like the blues legends!

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Blues Guitar Chords Lesson – Using 9th Chords

Sick of boring open guitar chords, shuffle licks and barre chords when you’re playing blues rhythm guitar? Let me show you some easy blues guitar chords and tricks which can transform your blues rhythm guitar and get you sounding super cool every time you play a blues.

Here’s a breakdown of what you learn in this video:

0:49 This lesson uses a 12 bar blues in the key of A as an example. Here you’ll see this demonstrated using basic dominant 7th chords – A7,D7 and E7. I also break up the 12 bar blues chord sequence so you can learn the correct form.

1:55 How to play the A7, D7 and E7 chord shapes I used in the demonstration. These are powerful but simple blues guitar chords which often sound better than open chords or barre chords. Complete with description and fingering guidelines.

3:30 Why it’s good to have a few other blues guitar chords to use as well as the basic 7th chords.

3:55 How to play the A7 chord riff I use for extra colour and interest. You need to barre the D,G and B string with your 1st finger at 5th fret and hammer on your 2nd finger at 6th fret on the G string.

5:50 D9 and E9 are chord substitutes for D7 and E7.They are totally interchangeable so experiment with swapping between them.

6:48 How to play the D9 and E9 chord shapes on guitar. Fingerings and playing tips included.

8:15 These chord shapes are moveable. Use the root notes on the E and A strings to figure out where to move them to to get G9, B9 etc.

9:14 Here I put the A7 riff, D9 and E9 together into a complete 12 bar blues to show you what it sounds like. Find a 12 bar blues backing track in A and try it out.

10:15 Summary of chord substitutions and how to combine these various chords.

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