Learn to Play

Add to your blues! This easy “walk-up” and “turnaround” quickly enhances the 12-bar blues shuffle in E. Danielle Miraglia shows us how to apply these two licks to the 12-bar pattern. Both are simple, fun, and essential building blocks for beginners playing the blues.

Play an easy blues lick! Danielle teaches the basic E minor pentatonic blues scale, and then she shows how to use it to play a classic blues lick. Essential and fun, this scale is perfect for beginners.

Play a Blues Shuffle! This easy 12-bar blues in A is essential to know, and fun to play. Danielle Miraglia breaks it down simply so you’ll be playing the blues in no time!

2021 “Blues Act of the Year” Danielle Miraglia shows the basics of fingerstyle guitar playing with this simple right-hand pattern that is perfect for beginners. Using this simple technique you can make one guitar sound like two!

With the “pinchie” technique, 2021 “Blues Act of the Year” Danielle Miraglia shows you how to take a simple fingerstyle picking pattern to the next level. This trick is a great way to easily add accented beats to your fingerpicking.

Play Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar” with this funky fingerpicking trick! You can apply Danielle’s easy “thumb, pluck, slap” technique to give a new, funky fingerstyle feel to many pop or cover songs you already know how to play.