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build classic blues licks. You start off by learning how to practice each lick in this book, before diving into the licks themselves, and finally learning full blues solos. The goal of this eBook is to open your ears, mind, and hands to the sounds that make up the classic blues vocabulary.
Blues is that it is based around the I - IV - V pattern also know as the Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant. In my first book you learned that the way the guitar is tuned in standard tuning leads to all kinds of useful patterns that give you insight into how music theory works. And it also allows you to improvise freely all over the fretboard.
In music, the V-IV-I turnaround, or blues turnaround is one of several patterns traditionally found in the twelve-bar blues, and commonly found in rock and roll.
6 Painless Music Theory for the Blues Guitarist Basically if you think of a Blues progression in terms of numbers first, then it makes it easy to transpose to any key that you'd like.
Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. If you don’t keep a practice log you want to start one for sure. A three ring binder with filler paper works best.
Rhythm is the driving force behind the blues. It may not take many notes to play good blues, but the rhythm must be strongly felt. The eighth-note triplet is the most common rhythm in blues music. The eighth-note triplet divides a beat (one quarter note) into three equal parts. The shuffle rhythm uses the first and last notes of the
In this edition of the Theory Corner, we’ll take a look at an excerpt from bluesman Dennis McCumber’s book, The Total Blues Guitarist, available through Alfred Publishing. Dennis will introduce you to the concept of creating blues intros and endings from the turnaround.
