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Another site I've found helpful is that of Scott Ainslie. Scott is a wonderful guitarist and vocalist, another student of the genre and loves teaching it to anybody who will listen.
He does Mississippi John Hurt like no other. At his website under, "Music Instructor," is a section on John with eight free tabs. His website is loaded with great stuff for anyone interested in the blues. Here is Scott singing, "Death Don't Have No Mercy." The video doesn't change since it comes from the CD, but the version is excellent... great guitar and vocal. |
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Go down to the crossroads at midnight & make a deal with the devil. 😁
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The Dave Rubin book is 12 Bar Fingerstyle Blues, published by Hal Leonard. Like the James book, it also comes with downloadable tracks (which I have not yet used).
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This guy isn’t really s teacher... but kinda. Maybe an entertaining reference or supplement... he’s just awesome. Messiahsez on YouTube. Very colorful. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=19Pp9QEw17U
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I've seen this piece posted a number of places around the internet...it's obviously meant to be purely humorous and I get a chuckle out of it every time I read it.... I also get a laugh every time someone will seriously critique one comment or another... Subtle humor is lost on some folks... Carry on!
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The blues came about by uneducated people making sounds from bad instruments. They made sounds of the way they felt. So do that.
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I don't know about academically, but there are some great video tutorials for songs and progressions and techniques all over YouTube. I also can't get enough of some of those "Homespun" instructional videos....they have flash sales and Ive bought tons for cheap...great lessons, discussions, stories and performance.
I will also re-iterate what others have said...you need to listen to a ton of blues...listen to old records, podcasts, radio shows, and go to shows (when thats an option again). Like all "folk" music, its about listening and listening and listening...and trying to repeat what you like. Just my $0.02 |
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While all that is true, my experience is that it does depend on your background how sufficient it can be. It can be tough going if you come from a classical background like I where you never learned to play based on chord progressions, think in chords etc. I'm beginning to realise that my own best bet is going to be to find one or more people to accept showing me the ropes and tolerate me finding things out while doing.
There's a sequence I saw somewhere, I think of either Bob Brozeman or Doug Macleod in the Resonate documentary, where a recipe is given that sounds great. Get familiar with playing just the bass part, over and over, feeling the groove ... at some point you'll feel a need to play a few more notes adding melody, and then you're making music. Well, playing the bass is fun, but I'm kind of at a loss when it comes to deciding what to play on top of it (at least beyond something I've happened to remember from a written-out score that I worked on).
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or as Son Thomas said "you got to have the blues to play the blues"
and Brownie says https://youtu.be/P6C61sxbjII Last edited by Jaxon; 01-28-2022 at 07:26 AM. |
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I think he meant you have to know what it means to have the blues. Look at any good blues man playing and see if they're having the blues or having a good time...
EDIT: similar message in this stereotype blues from arguably not an exclusive blues man: ("human stupidity: better to laugh about it than to cry")
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Parallel with that sort of training you need to seek out teaching sources which illuminate the underlying structure of blues , so books which are just full of tabs to play are not going to get you understanding what's going on , I learned a lot from a book in the library called How To Play Jazz piano, I allready played basic blues progressions on guitar and listened to so much that I would create blues in my head walking around town but I couldn't translate that to an instrument, the piano book got me playing the three chords or bass lines from the chords with my left hand and improvising on blues scales with the right hand now that's pretty difficult to do on guitar but if your playing solo you have to imitate that as best you can. Probably the easiest way is monotonic bass style where you just play root note of the chord with a thumb pick on the beat and improvise using a blues scale with the fingers, playing blues in the key of A means you have more freedom to move the left hand around to fret the blues scale tones as the bass notes can all be played on open strings, the usual convention is to use the A blues scale over the 1 and 4 chord but the E blues scale over the E (5) chord. There's a great lesson on Swing Soloing by David Hamburger in one of the Acoustic Magazine books which teaches by way of showing the structure of phrases used in that type of blues where a backing track or rythmn player usually supplies the chords , but Mr Hamburger should also have some lessons on you tube, but I do prefer books as you get a CD so you can take the individual example phrases from Hamburgers lesson slow down and try to work them out by ear and if that's too hard you can cheat and look at the tab to start you off. Another good learning source for blues is the Active Melody site but I would start off with a book if I were you, problem with youtube is the sound quality is just too bad to slow down and hear what's going on. Edit : The Active Melody site makes the Soundslice internet tool available for paying users, that's a great tool for learning and Brian's arrangements with tab and notation can be looped and slowed down, blues is Brian's speciality and I think he teaches it well especially the more jazzy oriented progressions. Last edited by Andyrondack; 01-29-2022 at 02:29 AM. |
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There must be players (programs!) that allow you to slow down a piece without changing pitch (I expect Audacity can) and/or loop an appropriate passage.
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You gotta feel so low down mean inside.
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Yes I have Music Speed Changer and Up Tempo free on Android devices, I use them a lot, both loop selected passages slow down and change key if you want, I often want to play along in a different key to the original recording so changing key is usefull too.
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