Kenny Sultan teaches how to play Fingerstyle Blues for beginning guitar students

Fingerstyle Blues

Instrument: guitar

Level: beginner

Available exclusively through the On the Music Path app for the iPad

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Kenny Sultan

Martin Signature Guitar Artist, Kenny Sultan, teaches how to get down and bluesy starting with the basics of the blues form up to the tricks and tips that’ll have you sounding like a back alley cat.

Lesson 1
Kenny introduces the basic 12-bar blues form in E, shows you how to boogie, strum and shuffle, use fills and turnarounds, and put it all together with some real down home blues fingerstyle.

Lesson 2
How to improvise using the first position blues scale in E. Getting funky with first position leads. Moving up the neck. Fills and turnarounds.

Lesson 3
Introduction to basic fingerstyle techniques: The pull off, the bend, the slide, the double stop and damping. And how to apply these techniques to a variety of fingerstyle blues songs.

about the artist

Kenny Sultan is a prominent figure in the blues scene who has worked with a wide variety of celebrated musicians over the past two decades, including: Luther Allison, The Allman Brothers, George Thorogood, Jackson Browne, David Bromberg, Ray Charles, Clifton Chenier, Ry Cooder, Albert Collins, Elvis Costello, Bo Diddley, Emmylou Harris, Etta James, B.B. King, Van Morrison, Johnny Otis, Queen Ida, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Simon, Koko Taylor, Big Joe Turner, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many, many more…

Kenny released his first solo CD in 2001 titled “West Coast Blues”, which spans the gambit from sexy shuffles to toe-tapping rags, with the odd slide number thrown in for variety. “West Coast Blues” was so well received, Kenny has followed it up with “Guitar Blues”, also on Solid Air Records. He is also the author of five music books, and 3 DVD’s.

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