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Play Guitar Blues 0101 Slow Blues In A mp3 wma Suggestions: Use the A Blues Scale. Below is the tab for the A blues scale starting at the 5th position. '5th position' simply means your index finger is at your 5th fret. We are starting on the Root note, the A, and playing 2 octaves of the blues scale as well as adding the flat third or b3 when we play the 8th fret on the high E or 1st string. This is the most common patter for the blues scale. The A Blues Scale, 5th position. E|------------------------------------------5--8-- You'll soon discover as I put up blues scales in more keys that we are using the same patterns just in different positions on the guitar neck. You really don't need to learn a lot of theory or scales to be able to play reasonably well. If you focus on learning the basic patterns you'll find you will be able to play along with a lot of music in a relatively short space of time. Blues Licks for Slow Blues in A Here are 4 simple blues licks that use only the notes from the A Blues Scale shown above. Try playing each lick over the entire progression. Notice that when you play the same notes over the different chords the licks sound very different. You can work out different rhythms to play for each lick and vary the notes used to make up your own blues licks. That's what improvising is all about. Listening to others to get ideas, listening to the music you can sing in your head, emulating those ideas and sounds and then just playing around with them to come up with your own ideas. This is how you build your own sound. It's not a hard process to go through, you just need to spend time on it and be patient. Don't try and rush to get to the next level. Play, play more and play some more. Getting good will happen with practice. If you need to keep your hands on the neck getting good will take care of itself. ...nuff said, it's time to jam!
Albert King & Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session - Matchbox Blues02 E Shuffle mp3 wma 03 A Straight mp3 wma 04 Eb Slow Blues (E if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 05 Ab Shuffle (A if you play gutar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 06 G Medium Blues mp3 wma 07 E Fast Shuffle mp3 wma 08 A Medium Blues Shuffle mp3 wma
Gregg Allman - Come And Go Blues09 A Medium Blues Shuffle Quick Change mp3 wma 10 Eb Straight Ahead Blues (E if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma 11 B Slow Blues (C if you play guitar and tune down 1/2 a step) mp3 wma
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Interview with Rude Mood Played Solo and MoreRude Mood was recorded on Stevie's album Texas Flood. If you haven't really got into Stevie Ray Vaughan then go get a copy of Texas Flood, it will blow you away! The entire album is incredible, but Rude Mood take the cake. Note so much for the speed that it's being played, but the technique behind it that maintains soul, groove and feel. And then there is the track Lenny, which is an instrumental at the end of the album that uses beautifully 6th and 9th chords that SRV learned to play from listening to Hendrix. If you want to know what the blues is about then you need to listen to SRV and then find out who his influences were. Then you'll really start to delve deep into the spirit of blues guitar. Stevie Rave On! Play Blues GuitarThe jam tracks on play guitar blues page are mostly made up of straight forward blues progressions in the more common blues keys. Some of the backing tracks have been recorded in Eb and Ab, mainly because so many blues guitar players tune their guitars down half a step. If you don't tune your guitar down half a step then just play them in the keys they are in. i.e. Eb and Ab. When you are learning to play guitar you should play in as many different key signatures as possible. Even if you are an experienced guitar player, playing in keys you aren't familiar with will get you out of your comfort zone and make you play in different places on the neck. This will help you come up with new riffs and licks and will help make learning guitar fresh. With each of the blues guitar tracks below you can start playing along with the standard blues scale for each key. Over the coming weeks I'm going to start adding some tab to go along with the suggestions below and expand on each track with some guitar licks and some music theory. Most importantly of all - this is the blues, it's about feeling. Listen to the music you can hear in your head and try and play that on the guitar. The real deal is to play the blues from your heart and soul. ...nuff said - it's time to jam!
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Band Merchandise
Below are links to band merchandise for some of my favorite bands. They have a lot of cool items for sale and the prices are reasonable. It's not just t-shirts, stickers and posters - there are guitar picks and some other things on there as well. Most of the designs and prints they have are really cool.
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