The key to all country blues playing, and the heart of this style is in your ability to play a rhythmic bass pulse with your thumb while your fingers pick out syncopated notes on the high strings. Happy Traum’s “easy steps” learning concept divides this all-important style into modules that you can digest one element at a time. Through the use of carefully thought-out exercises, he methodically takes this style apart so that any aspiring player can pick it up.

You’ll learn how to “break up the chords” (the way Happy learned personally from Brownie McGhee), as well as the funky “Lightnin’ Hopkins lick,” shuffle and boogie-woogie bass lines, blues scales, playing solos up the neck, variations on blues chord progressions and arrangements of “Rock Me Baby,” “Baby Please Don’t Go,” “Trouble In Mind” and other blues classics. More info here: https://www.homespun.com/shop/product/easy-steps-to-acoustic-blues-guitar-dvd-2/