At some point in every blues guitar player’s life, you are going to play “Blues In E…”
So you might as well have a little fun with 🙂
If you’re new to it, this will get you started. If you want a couple of variations to make it interesting – I got that too.
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43 replies to "Easy Blues In E With Variations"
Just another spot on lesson.
Thanks
Back to basics, very helpful, thanks
Now that I think about it,this guy has been doing this stuff for 999+.01 years, I tell you what..that’s a thousand years I think,why hasn’t he aged? I think they call that the longevity of the blues? that’s a long time so I don’t believe I’m the first to call Griff G-riff, welcome to the club..
Hey, Mark T. I used G-riff before, because riff’s are what I play,and their part of his name,so anywho you can use it, G-riff good basic lesson, I can’t enlarge the footage on my phone? What he said..
Good stuff “G-riff” (my blues man nickname for you; if no one else has used it,I’ll take the credit🙂).
A lot of this I knew, but definitely picked up a couple of alternatives.
Thanks
If I dislocate my pinky, I can just about make the stretch at the B7 turnaround in the second and third examples😆.
Thanks Griff! Like a lot of people I started off with variations of blues in E…glad to add some more to the (woefully depleted) arsenal
Hey Griff, Great refresher since Feb 2016 as always your lessons are spot on. Part of this Lesson is Lesson 8 Blues in E in your course Blues Guitar Unleashed 2.0 and some of the variations are included in your course 52 Rhythm Fils & Variations which is also great. I can now do the stretch for the B Bar chord V chord, but I always like to do this Blues in A most often as I can sing some words and make a song out of it, but can never remember all the words until I write them down but definitely Blues in E and this lesson is great.
Stay Safe all friends in BGU. Here in Australia in Vic and NSW we have a 2nd wave so the Guitars are getting a good work out.
Michael-Sydney-Australia July 21st ,2020
While in LD1 (lock down 1) I watched a ZZT documentary. Their first jam together was an e blues shuffle that went on for hours non stop. Since I am new to the blues I did not know what an e blues shuffle was but knew if it was ZZT’s go to jam when friends come together to play then it was something I should probably know too. Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed tthe lesson ….particularly the variations….but gotta question.
How come you didn’t include the turn around? Or is that for another day?
I HATE YOU!! When I have other things I should be doing you make me want to sit down and play my guitar instead of being a responsible, productive member of society.
Please don’t stop!!! 😉
Love it, thanks for the little chords reminder.
Enjoy your lessons. Griff on bgu
Learning lots
Good basic refreshing of classic blues in E. Old school!!Robert Johnson.
This one of the basics, great lesson Griff.
this blues is a good pattern if not the best to learn it include lot orf rules
we should learn as basic.
this is the best courswe have seen on net.
maybe you could play all the tune at least one time before you start the course
so our memory can expecte wha is comming . I appreciate every short lick,and the
way you give them. lp
Variation is like adding salt and pepper. Thanks
oh great, another shiny object to distract me…now I’ve got to try this…not complaining, mind you…good stuff…
Great for those beginners… question for bgu members old amped classic has cramped out would like recommendations for a tube amp under 1000 bucks anybody? More curious than anything as always Griff u r da man!,,
Should have read Ampeg
I recently purchased a Peavey classic 50 4X10. $999.00. Tone galore. I’ve had fender,dean markley, kustom,all of them had great tone. But none like the 4X10 classic.
Griff:
Why not more simply play the IV and V as power chords at the 5th and 7th frets, making it easier to go from the D fill to A7 and from the E fill to B7?
Certainly an option if you’d like to do that. None of this is etched in stone 🙂
I wish you had a little course on EASY solo ‘songs’ using only the A- penta for soloing only for beginners, so that I could learn the penta thru little A- riffs. Just so I could have fun w and learn that one postion shape.
I’ll see about working on that for you. Great idea, thanks!
You can also find this in the BGU course BEGINNING BLUES GUITAR😀
lets see i looked at this as a stepping stone for me . a way to add more to my comping . that streach to the B i had an idea right away but dont think it will work out . I CALL IT FLACKING NOT SLUFFING cause its what it sounds like
Griff this Video is great!
You are a great instructor and the tabs below as you play are awesome and very helpful.
Thank you
You are great for beginners and advanced…love your hot tips to be cool!!!!! J.
Hi Griff,
Really nice! It takes me back to yesteryear(’58) and how I wish I would have had those variations under my belt.
Thanks for helping those of us who play guitar – play a little better.
Old School & still Rockin’
Excellent lesson, just when I thought it was all just a review for me you added in the “little chords”. As always I so enjoy the different way of looking at the same old thing to add a different spice to the mix and add interest!
Nice. I like the little vibrato on the chords.
Pat
Hi Griff
A very interesting video and variations.
I have downloaded the tab but unfortunately I can’t download the video for some reasons and always get an error message or the download failed. Please could you send the video directly to my email address that would be great to have it and play it on my video surgeon software.
Thanks for your help
Germain
Videos are too big to send via email – but if you click on the “youtube” logo on the video while it’s playing, it’ll open in youtube. From there, copy the URL into Video Surgeon and it’ll download and play it for you.
Griff will be working on it later this week. Great,
Thanks.
John
Griff , another fine lesson . Going to my music room and work on it . Thanks for sending . Mike Z.
It always helps to go back to basics – & when you’re a beginner like myself, this information is invaluable. So thanks a million Griff – I’m off to practice right now!
No matter how many times I’ve watched you play this over the years, I am always impressed with the ability of your distal phalange(last joint)of your little finger to bend like that. The stretch I finally got, after a load of practice and stretching, but that finger bend…that is different. Stay Well Groovy One.
So right on with what do you want to play? I dunno, what do you want to play? I love this lesson, especially the little chord fills. Thanks Griff.
Been doing that kind of thing for ever. But it’s good to have someone give you that “refresher” once in a while.
I liked it learned a couple new things be fun to play around with thanks Griff
I’ve played the blues in E for decades, but I don’t think I’ve ever used this variation. Excellent. Gonna grab my guitar.
Clearly you have have not played blues in E then,if you did not know those little fills they ate old school like Robert Johnson old school blues and have been around for decades but if your a beginner it’s a great place to start
The tab looks to be incorrect.
In the 1st bar of the variations the notation doesn’t tally with the tab.
Or it’s more likely that I can’t read tab/music