Course Description

Acoustic blues guitar can be found in the roots of most modern rock and pop music. Even modern jazz owes it's sound to the original ragtime blues pioneers. Within the genre of blues guitar, there are many styles adding to the richness that is The Blues.

This FREE course demonstrates 5 fingerpicking styles by featuring different artists and showing how they played their instruments to achieve their own distinctive sounds. These 5 lessons were entered into a global competition to find the Top Internet Guitar Teacher in 2013 - I won 2nd place overall, & 1st place for fingerpicking blues guitar lessons.

Each lesson shows my hands in slow motion close up & the guitar tablature is shown on the video screen.


Acoustic Blues Guitar Instructor

Jim Bruce

Acoustic blues guitarist Jim Bruce was voted Number 2 top guitar instructor on Truefire in 2013 (Number 1 for acoustic blues). Jim still plays blues guitar on the street in Europe and also gives concerts - plus teaching old style finger picking wherever he goes! Now online students can benefit from over 40 years of real experience playing blues guitar in the authentic way. If you want to play real blues guitar just like the old blues men, then is where you come to find out how. Keep it real with Jim Bruce and play blues guitar like it was originally played. A word from Jim - " My playing career goes way back, to the folk clubs on the UK in the sixties, clubs pubs and bars in six countries, and on the city streets of Europe. This is how I learned my trade. One day someone asked me to slow down a lick to show them exactly what I was doing with my hands. As I tried to do this, I found that I was doing much, much more than I realized. It was these tiny hand movements that make acoustic blues so exciting when it's performed properly. This is the main focus of my lessons - to show students exactly how to play the blues in great detail. " Peace, Jim Bruce (Jim's guitar lessons follow a well proven and award-winning formula guaranteed to have you playing the blues in the shortest time possible.)

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Five Styles That Make The Blues

    • The Guitar of Mississippi John Hurt

    • Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues

    • Floyd Council - 'Minor' Blues Man with A Massive Influence

    • Gospel Style Guitar

    • Blind Blake - The King Of Ragtime