In this lesson, Stefan teaches you how to improvise with some great D blues licks. Note that he is playing in "Dropped-D" tuning. From the DVD "How To Play Blues Guitar, Lesson Two." More info at www.guitarvideos.com

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22 thoughts on “Stefan Grossman Teaches "Blues in D" Improvisation”

  2. Felipe Arroyo
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    Muy bueno…hace fácil lo difícil…tela el juego de dedos…gran clase

  4. tom rockliffe
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    its a ‘dropped D tuning’ you only have to retune the E (6th) string to D ,so tune it down to D.Have fun

  7. GtrWorkShp
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    I don’t have this pre-arranged. I have a general idea of the sounds I want and then empty my mind/intellect and let my fingers and sound lead the way.

  8. flipspiceland64
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    Stefan, can I ask if you already have, recorded in your mind, the exact frets you want your fingers to alight on?

    If seems that your fingers already know—a split second before they actually press the string—precisely where they need to be to get the sound you want. For every note.

    There is some improvisation on the fly but generally you already have the ‘mental’ vision of what you want.

    Would that be a fair guess?

  10. howard goodchild
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    wow, this video is 4years old and yet to me its the freshest acoustic blues ive heard, brilliant. thanks

  11. bubb3432
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    do yourself a favor and get one of stefan’s dvds. it equal to having a lesson from paul simon or jorma kaukonen.

  12. beaflat
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    I have to agree…buy the DVDs…you won’t regret it! Saw John Renbourn not so long ago and he is better than ever…so fluid. Renbourn and Grossman…ahhhh.

  19. gallopinghost74
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    I hear a little Chump man blues around 4:14 and 4:39. Pretty amazing how he fuses Blind Blake and Lonnie Johnson so effortlessly.

  21. rivertothesea
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    I have a question!: Normally when i improvise in D blues i play around what i’d call a blues pentatonic (D minor) with a flattened fifth. I know a lot of the old country blues used to just be in a major key with a flattened seventh, BUT this seems to be in what i would call a B minor pentatonic, in other words a D major pentatonic, with a flattened third as what Stefan calls the "blues wammy". Anybody out there stop bickering long enough to shed some light on this!

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