Almost by definition, acoustic blues guitar has a dark side - it was born from suffering, after all. This course presents songs by blues legends playing music typical of the Mississippi Delta.

Artists include:

• Robert Johnson
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Blind Blake

Blind Blake isn't strictly a Mississippi Blues Man (he hailed from Florida), but the song I chose is very much in the delta Blues idiom and is played in open D tuning.

While Robert Johnson is considered the giant name of Delta Blues, another Mississippi legend, John Hurt plays blues of a completely different style – almost ragtime in flavor.

Each song is covered in one video lasting between 15 and 25 minutes, which also includes onscreen guitar tablature and a PDF file for downloading for later study. Everything needed to learn and play the song is included.

The level is not super complex, but you should have some experience in fingerpicking guitar techniques and changing basic chords - you will also be learning (probably) some new blues chord structures.