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Stefan Grossman slow blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSbBZI1eQTU
Think i have been looking for the blues all this time .I been at the crossroads driving myself crazy trying to teach myself the theory. |
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I like theory, I can read music but first and foremost for a beginner you have to play your guitar a lot.
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I've noticed. Some basic theory is fine to back up what you are working on but in the main assimilate this stuff by copious listening and careful copying what you have heard. Work on playing techniques required for the pieces you want to play.
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E7, A7, B7 and e minor pentatonic patterns at 3rd and 5th fret position. That's all the theory you need to get started for 12 bar blues. Play your guitar.
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pentatonic. Note how he sets up beginning with a I-IV-V-I before varying it out for some play time to a V7-I-I7-IV-IV-I-V7-I and then begins to wrap up (prior to a repeat) with a flavor shift to the use of the minor chords vi7 and ii7. Anyway that's how I would look at it. Then you need to look at the timing, accenting, and palm muting
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Made to one with pride and love To be that we hold so dear A voice from heavens above Last edited by rick-slo; 06-15-2017 at 11:07 PM. |
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1. Ignore that tune. It's got too many chords. 2. Forget theory. No blues player ever studied theory, so you don't need to. The only theory you need is 3 chords, I IV and V. That means: C, F and G for key of C; G, C and D for key of G; D, G and A for key of D; A, D and E for key of A; E, A and B for key of E. Add b7s to any of those chords if you like - it makes them sound more bluesy, and makes some of them easier too. To learn blues, listen and copy. And (thanks be to youtube!) watch and copy.
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As I understand it, you wait at the crossroads long enough and some guy offers you a deal. You wont need theory then.
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That piece is Blind Blake style and is fairly complex. Grossman has some others in E and A that are a little more bare bones.
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That song is a basic style of fingerpicking, it's not too technical in the left hand, simple chords. It's all in the right hand, all that old blues, right hand is key. Most great guitar music is in the right hand.
Learn that song by first knowing the chord changes. Know the chords and be able to strum them. Next, and most importantly, know the melody and be able to play the melody as single notes. That song has a distinct melody, all blues songs have a distinct melody, people think blues is just a lot of licks thrown together. No, the blues is about melody or creating a melody, not just a lot of licks. Then put the two together, that's where you apply the bass runs and licks used as fills, keeping the thumb moving and the easy swing. |
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I took the deal sod all that theory
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Could you PM me the google map of that crossroads?
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"Hey guitarists, come and buy your Modes here!" "Cheap shortcuts!" "Scale patterns, we gottem! Buy 7, get 84 free!" The poor old Devil can't find a space any more.
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It's those pushing systems for just learning shapes, the put-your-fingers-here-never-mind-what-it's-called-or-how-it-works crowd, people who seem rather intent on obscuring information, that I think are the snake oil salesmen.
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It's not just the "never-mind-what-it's-called" people - that's not so bad, really, plenty of people do well enough in music without knowing what stuff is called. And I don't think there's many who deliberately obscure information. The problem is the shortcut folk, mostly people misusing terminology, in order to make quick buck. While pretending to offer short cuts and quick fixes, they actually make things more complicated. That serves their purposes, of course, because the more complicated something can be made to appear to be, the more bite-sized chunks of information it can be broken down into, the more a learner can be tied into an enfless series of "lessons". It's in no one's interest to explain things simply. No one's going to make any money from a one-page book... The root of the problem is really the notion that the answers can all be found in information. Students understandably suffer from that notion, but the snake-oil salesmen exploit that misapprehension. Music is a process, an activity. You learn it by doing it. You need very little information to begin the activity, and even less to continue it. Hey, I'm a teacher myself, I'm guilty! I take the poor saps' money if they're offering. I obviously try not to mislead, but most of the time I'm thinking "for chrissake, with a bit more self-discipline you can do this all yourself!" I taught myself, why can't they??
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