Learn Blues Guitar From Music Maker Guitar Lessons
Style Sheet #2 Blues
Instrumentation – Drums, electric Bass guitar, double bass, piano, organ, electric Rhythm guitar will play major, 6th & 7th chords. Hammond organs are popular, often used instead of a second guitar. Lead guitar with overdrive & reverb to suit the type of blues you are playing.
Rhythms – Triplets, 123, 223, 323, 423 etc.
Scales – Major & Minor Pentatonic, Blues, Aeolian, Dorian, Mixolydian, Whole Tone.
Chords – Chords are usually basic shapes; 7th, or 9th, Sus 2, Sus 4 chords are popular, also playing a pattern using the major chord, the 6th & the 7th chords.
Technique – Rhythm guitar play major, 6th & 7th chords, lead guitar will use plenty of bends. Bottle neck is used as a slide technique and often open chord tuning in the Key of G or D are popular.
Effects – Slight Overdrive, Reverb or echo, Wah Wah.
Sound & Tone – Experiment with both a bright tone that will cut through the other instruments using the bridge pickup then try a deeper sound using the neck pick up.
Amplification – Valve amplifiers such as Fender, Marshall & Mesa Boogie are very common, offering rich sound, reverb and overdrive built in.
C Blues Exercise
The Blues sound is created using a flat 7th note.
Although there are many scales available when playing the Blues... try the following scales & modes over the backing track & you'll soon be playing Blues lead guitar.
Notice how all but one of these modes & scales have the flat 7th note in common.
The C Major Pentatonic Scale create a country Blues feels similar to the C Mixolydian.
I suggest that you play through the modes & scales until you can feel the Blues in each of them.
Enjoy...
C Blues Scale
C Minor Pentatonic Scale
C Major Pentatonic Scale
C Aeolian Mode
C Dorian Mode
C Mixolydian Mode
The following backing track is based on the 12 bar blues in C.
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