Straight up, I'm going to show you a lick from more of the major blues sound...
BUT, here's the thing, major blues licks usually bring along a bit of the minor
If you've never heard me talk about quarter note triplets and how amazing and useful they are in blues soloing....
Well. consider that time over and gone :)
But out of all
It's not uncommon to start blues tunes with a couple of bars of intro, followed by the turnaround...
So in this lesson I'll show you one of my favorite little intros
I like this particular idea for a couple of different reasons...
1 - The interesting rhythmic variety - don't overlook this as it's a huge part of the sound
2 - It
This is one of my favorite acoustic blues guitar moves for the first few bars of the 12 bar blues form...
It uses some little chords and inversions in the key
You may have heard me say that rule #1 of Blues Guitar Soloing is to NOT start your licks on beat 1...
However, sometimes that's easier said than done, especially if
Just like the title says, knowing these things when I was learning guitar would have saved me SO much time!
Luckily, you don't have to wait, you can start putting these
Not so much a lesson as a discussion about famous "pop" songs that you may not know are actually "blues" songs...
There are a large number of songs I would consider