How To Play Mississippi Queen
This is a song I always dug because it's just one of those classic 12 bar blues rock songs that you might not know is just a 12 bar blues
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Using The BB Box House Pattern And Switching Major and Minor
It's tempting to call this the "3 note solo," but since I already did a 4 note solo, that might be a little silly :)
Seriously, though, this is a really
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Using The Dorian Mode
While you *can* use the Dorian scale over a 12 bar blues... that's not the most common way I see it used.
More often than not, I see it used over
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Pivoting Between Sounds
This is a fun little project to try if you struggle with:
1 - Switching between the major and minor blues sounds...
2 - Counting the 12 bar blues (or getting lost
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The Funky Tightrope Rhythm
As much as I love funky rhythms, this is one of my all time favorites...
In blues, we don't get to use these funky rhythms as often, and therefore they often
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A Turnaround And More – Blues-i-fy The 3rd
This is a simple idea that is easy to play, but is harmonically pretty advanced - Win/Win!
If you look at the chord shapes within your 12 bar blues, and you
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“The” Turnaround Lick…
This is that one old school 12 bar blues turnaround that everyone and their brother/sister/uncle/cousin plays...
And you should too :)
It works for a shuffle or a slow blues and it's
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The I IV I7 Rhythm Move
For blues comping (playing blues rhythm guitar) this is a move that gets used on all kinds of tunes...
Slow blues, shuffle blues, straight feel songs... really doesn't matter, this will
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Hide Away – Freddie King
While this is a fun little melody to learn and a cool tune...
I have an ulterior motive for showing it to you :)
We often talk about "playing on the porch"
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A Beginning Blues “Project” For You
This video is a little more of a project for you, if you're a beginning guitar player.
In order to be able to play with other people (really, in order to
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