LickSamples: Chicago Blues Guitar

In this DVD filmed in 2001, guitarist Shun Kikuta teaches you the guitar styles and techniques you need to play Chicago blues.

You’ll learn: rhythm patterns for 12-bar blues, basic solo techniques, 53 essential blues guitar licks, phrasing ideas, chord voicings, minor blues, eight-bar blues, and turnarounds. You’ll also learn the techniques of the masters as Shun guides you through examples in the styles of such blues legends as B.B. King, Albert King, Albert Collins, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters.

As an added bonus, you will see and hear Shun demonstrate all the concepts demonstrated throughout the DVD in five live performances with J.W. Williams and other great Chicago blues musicians at the world famous club Buddy Guy’s Legends.