This lesson is basically built around the chords to Joe Bonamassa's tune, "So It's Like That."
The characteristic intro riff is nothing more than a variation on the standard bass box
As the driving force behind Ten Years After, Alvin Lee was a brilliant blues/rock guitar player...
Admittedly, I'm only recently becoming familiar with his work, but I've been devouring it lately,
When you're comping or playing blues rhythm, it's easy to get comfortable with one chord shape...
But you can add a lot to your rhythm playing by simply moving between shapes
If you are familiar with the popular 'Blues In E" type of blues riff, then you've come across a turnaround before - even if you didn't know it.
The turnaround is
Many of my students want to learn to play Chuck Berry licks... and for good reason!
But, they usually struggle because of 2 issues:
1 - the bends aren't happening
2- the timing
This is a simple, boogie style blues riff that should suit most beginning and early intermediate blues guitar players.
It uses a 12 bar blues in E, with a simple riff
Yup... it's another episode of "Theory Fun Time" where we're going to learn how to do something really cool...
... because of a little music theory :)
Theory is great, and I