I am feeling a little blue today, having just brought two of my boys back from visiting the dentist (ouch!) and a little funky, seeing as this is my first post to this blog in more than a few days/weeks/months!
Anyway, when feeling both blue & funky nothing matches the mood better than a funky blues! Here for your jamming pleasure is a groovy jam track, ...
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Many guitarists don't consider themselves singers. My long term advice: learn to sing! But if you want to be the band leader when you step to the stage at your local jam night, instrumentals will be your songs of choice. Fortunately, for blues guitarists there are lots of choices.
The Bluesbreakers album with Eric ...
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In Blues Guitar Soloing there is one chord change that makes up much of what you will play. This is the I-IV change (said 'one-four' change). Isolating and practicing over this progression will take your blues soloing to another level. This progression is actually the foundation of many rock and funk songs so you guys might want to tune in, as well.
To practice this change, ...
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In 1983, Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album "Texas Flood" reintroduced blues guitar back into popular consciousness. The title track is a slow blues in G, much like the jam track from our
earlier lesson. While covering the entire song would be best tackled in private lessons, the intro alone is a cornucopia of classic blues triads, 6th chords, 9th chords and a great single-note ...
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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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This jam track is an upbeat shuffle, B.B. King style 12-Bar Blues in the key of G. If you want to jump in and just jam, go for it! Locate your favorite G blues scale pattern, click the play button below and wail away!
The following short video shows the backing guitar parts so you can play the jam track yourself. It might help you out the ...
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