Like a lot of guitar players, you might have what you consider to be a pretty simple goal – to be able to play some songs.<\/p>\n
Seems easy enough, right? We practice all these skills and drills… isn’t that so we can play some music at some point?<\/p>\n
The answer, of course, is absolutely!<\/p>\n
But the problem quickly becomes, how?<\/p>\n
And more importantly, how do you take the fragments you learn in Blues Guitar Unleashed<\/a>, or How To Build Blues Songs<\/a>, and turn them into those songs?<\/p>\n Blues music is unique, along with jazz, in that there is a “standard” set of tunes. In fact, these “standards” are so common that you can take 6 people who have never met each other (a drummer, bass player, keyboard player, harmonica player, and 2 guitar players) and put them up on stage and call one of these tunes and they’ll probably play it pretty well with what appears to be<\/em> a minimum of effort and a whole lot of fun<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The first part of that, the apparent lack of effort, is because the guys learned their skills and basics already before they got there… and they are comfortable with the elements of the blues song form (things like the 12 bar blues, intros, endings, bridges, breaks, etc.. like we talk about in How To Build Blues Songs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n And the whole lot of fun part is so very true (I just threw that in to hopefully encourage you to do it.)<\/p>\n But let’s talk about what it means to play a song… and we’ll put together some recipes for how to “cook them up.”<\/p>\n There are literally hundreds of versions of this first tune as I’ve mentioned before<\/a>.<\/p>\n Recipe 1 – <\/strong><\/p>\n Recipe 2 –<\/strong><\/p>\n Recipe 3 – (and this is how I usually play it these days)<\/strong><\/p>\n What makes this tune unique is the variety of chords that might get used. Of course, they are all covered at some point in Blues Guitar Unleashed, but there are more than a few variations floating around out there.<\/p>\n Recipe 1 – <\/strong><\/p>\n Recipe 2 –<\/strong><\/p>\n Shoot, I can think of several versions of that just off the top of my head that don’t sound even remotely similar, but let’s say you want to play it something like BB King plays it<\/a>…<\/p>\n Recipe 1 –<\/strong><\/p>\n Recipe 2 – (more Chuck Berry style)<\/strong><\/p>\n Recipe 3 – (basically the same as above but with a swing to it like Brad Paisley does it with BB King<\/a>…)<\/strong><\/p>\n Of course… I’d love for you to find some other recipes to classic tunes and post them in the comments below. There are zillions of them out there if you start to look.<\/p>\n And if you don’t already have Blues Guitar Unleashed (shame on you \ud83d\ude09 then you might want to start with these 3 Classic Blues Rhythms<\/a> and The 4 Note Solo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now go play!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like a lot of guitar players, you might have what you consider to be a pretty simple goal – to be able to play some songs. Seems easy enough, right? We practice all these skills and drills… isn’t that so we can play some music at some point? The answer, of course, is absolutely! But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7314,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/7314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}I’m Tore Down<\/h3>\n
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Stormy Monday<\/h3>\n
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Let The Good Times Roll<\/h3>\n
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Want to have access to all of the lessons I mentioned in this article? Try out the Blues Guitar Unleashed All Access Pass<\/a>…<\/h4>\n