messed up fingers - Guitar Tricks Forum

Originally Posted by: guitarlover2022
Chris Schlegel - since you were the only teacher who responded - do you offer any courses that might help?
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It depends on your skill level & specific goals. Referring to your original post.

[quote=guitarlover2022]I play fingerstyle acoustic blues and love it, but would love to find a way to go electric.

I'm assuming this means you can play most open chords & can fingerpick & strum. I'm assuming this means you can't yet, but want to learn to play chords on the rest of the fretboard & how to play blues riffs, licks & solos.

It depends on what kind of blues style, artists, songs you want to play on electric. It's not necessary to play barre chords. In fact, many electric blues players don't because they play partial chord voicings. Anders gets into all that in the Blues courses.

But you will have to learn some other skills, not commonly associated with acoustic fingerstyle, in particular quick small voiced motions & single note lines (riffs, licks, solos).

I have a ton of tutorials that can help with that. :)

I encourage you to start working through the Blues 1 style course. Skip anything with barre chords, or that might cause too much discomfort & look for material that is interesting & aimed at what you want to learn. If that's all too easy, go to Blues 2.

https://www.guitartricks.com/course.php?input=blues1

I also encourage you to look through the blues songs for tunes that you'd like to play. Looking at the guitar playing in those songs will give you an idea of what specific skills you need to work on.

https://www.guitartricks.com/songs/blues

I have a ton of tutorials that can help with specific skills in blues style. For example, these will show you the basics of switching between rhythm & lead playing.

E Blues For Beginners

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=189

E Blues Rhythm & Lead 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=170

E Blues Rhythm & Lead 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=918

These will show you how to build bluesy chord voicings & lead lines into a complete stereotypical song arrangement.

Blues a Blues Arrangement 1

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2380

Blues a Blues Arrangement 2

https://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=2768

Most of these & more are contained in this collection aimed at building a repertiore of licks to play.