When I first started taking guitar lessons, I was anxious to understand the explanations provided in the different guitar magazines I was reading at the time. There was a language being used that I did not comprehend. You probably hear it thrown around by musicians all the time:
"It's a 1-4-5 progression in G."
"His solo uses the flat 6th."
"Sing a 3rd above the melody ...
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A "slow blues" really lets blues guitarists showcase their soloing skill. The following smoky slow blues backing track in 12/8 time is similar to "Texas Flood" by Stevie Ray Vaughan or T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday". Just a standard 12-Bar Blues progression in the key of G, but with the added interest of a quick change to the IV chord (C7) in the second bar and ...
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