The Blues Moan by Roger "Hurricane" Wilson is a free guitar lesson that mixes a bit of blues history with learning a blues lick. We'll take the call and response and tension and release qualities from an old blues moan and transpose it for the guitar. To learn more acoustic blues licks, check out Roger's premium lesson series on playing like Mississippi John Hurt.

Mississippi John Hurt Style by Roger "Hurricane" Wilson is a downloadable Quicktime video guitar lesson on playing acoustic blues. In this lesson, we'll look at the fingerpicking style of Delta Blues legend Mississippi John Hurt. Roger will teach you a right hand pattern that uses alternating bass and melody notes that was inspired by Hurt's Spike Driver Blues. The download includes a .pdf of the tabs.

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