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15 Easy Steps To Blues Guitar
We are proud to announce that we will be releasing our first guitar instruction book entitled 15 Easy Steps To Blues Guitar. It's intended for the intermediate guitarist in mind.
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Open String Blues Guitar
Great blues guitarist like Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, etc all have made use of the open string minor pentatonic blues scale. Below is the E minor blues pentatonic scale in the first position. This scale is great for them airy blues licks that we all come to enjoy.
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Jimi Hendrix Style Chords Changes
Jimi Hendrix had a cool way of playing chords. He would take a basic major chord and play it from the 3rd or 1st inversion using hammer-ons and pull-offs. Here's an example playing a C major bar chord from the 3rd fret.
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Using Sub V chords in the blues.
A sub V chord is a substitute chord for the original V chord. An example of this would be a Eb7 chord instead of A7. The Sub V chord shares the same (tri-tone) Below is the tri-tone in both chords A7 and Eb7.
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Playing Wes Montgomery Style
One of the greatest jazz guitarist of all time was Wes Montgomery. He played guitar with his thumb and made popular the octave slide where he would simply add an octave to fatten up the sound. If you ever read Wes Montgomery's bio it says he developed this technique to keep the noise down and not to awake his family or neighbors.
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Turnarounds for the Blues
In this lesson we will demonstrate a few basic 12 bar blues turnarounds. The turn-around in blues is very important because it adds character and interest and gets the progression ready for another round of 12 bars. As you already know playing the same 12 bars over and over can get pretty boring and tiresome.
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12 Bar Blues with Walking Bass Lines
If you like the blues with a walking bass line, you will enjoy this lesson. It's pretty cut to the chase, but it will teach you the basics and you can build on that. Notice how the bass lines connect the chords together just like a bass player would do. See if you can change the bass lines with your own ideas. A good start is use the 1,3,5,b7 notes from the scale of the chords A7,D7,E7. We will use the b7 since were playing dominant 7th chords.
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12 Bar Blues using II V Ones
The II V I ( 2,5,1) progression is commonly used in jazz music and resolves nicely to the tonic chord. In the Key of (A) The II V I progression would be Bm | E7 | A7.
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Minor 7th chords contain the intervals 1,b3,5,b7

 

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Friday, October 18
· Beginner Blues Soloing Tips
Wednesday, October 16
· Time,Harmony,Melody in Popular Music Styles
Friday, August 23
· The Style of Billy Gibbons
Friday, August 16
· Chet Atkins Style
Thursday, August 08
· Jimi Hendrix Style (Part 2)
Sunday, August 04
· Funk Blues Guitar Style
Saturday, August 03
· Stevie Ray Vaughan Style Blues Licks
Friday, August 02
· Jimi Hendrix Style - Part 1
Sunday, July 28
· Lightnin' Hopkins Lesson
Thursday, July 25
· Coltrane Substitutions
Sunday, June 23
· 15 Easy Steps To Blues Guitar
Thursday, June 06
· Open String Blues Guitar
Sunday, June 02
· Jimi Hendrix Style Chords Changes
Sunday, May 26
· Using Sub V chords in the blues.
Thursday, May 23
· Playing Wes Montgomery Style
Saturday, May 18
· Turnarounds for the Blues
Thursday, May 16
· 12 Bar Blues with Walking Bass Lines
Saturday, March 30
· 12 Bar Blues using II V Ones

 

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