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While classical guitar music is written on a staff with music notes and pop uses both notes and chord symbols, blues music is a special tablature using no notes on a music staff. Play EXISTING riffs and patterns with speed and accuracy click hereTo learn how to play blues guitar one must learn how to read that tablature along with a few other things that are only done with blues guitar.
Blues music comes from America but it was created from African tribal music. In that music there were rhythmic chants and shouts that are all part of the blues. It was developed in the late 19th and early 20th century from the Mississippi country side. It is called blues because the scale used to create most blues music is a major scale that consists of a flat third, fifth, and seventh, and sounds a bit on the doleful side. Using the key of C a blues scale would consist of C, D, E flat, F, G flat, A, and B flat. Once you learn the scales you are well on your way to learning how to play blues.
In African music many of the lines would be repeated several times. African music has rhythmic patterns that you still find in the blues music of today. If you learn these rhythmic patters you will learn how to play blues guitar easily.
Learning how to play blues guitar is relatively easy. Blues is based on a twelve or sixteen bar pattern that is the same in most songs. Once you get to know this pattern you can play just about anything. An example of sixteen bar pattern is to start in the key of C and play a C chord for 4 bars. Change to an F chord and play it for 2 bars. Go back to another C chord for 2 bars and then to a G chord 2 bars. Go to an F chord for 2 bars to another G chord for 2 bars and finally end back on C for 2 bars. This should equal sixteen bars. There are all kinds variations on the theme possible. Only four chords are usually used in each blues song so it really is easy.
Blues guitar is full of riffs and licks. This is when you finger other notes besides chords playing individual notes to fill in and give more interest to the music. Listen to some recordings from B.B.King and some of the other popular blues artists. Listen to the chords and how they progress within a song. Then listen to the guitar solos or the little pieces in between the chords. Most blues artists have a signature riff or lick that they are known for. Try to figure them out and practice them over and over until you can play them like a pro. Believe it or not, most artists learned by imitation. Take it one day at a time and dedicate 30-60 mins of practice so you don’t overwhelm yourself.
The best way to learn how to play blues guitar is to take a few lessons from a teacher in your community. Teachers are hard to find for blues guitar so if you can’t find one go on line and search for free blues guitar lessons. You will find a multitude of sites that will teach how to read the tablature and how to play and you will find sites that will show you videos that you can play along with. These are wonderful because you can actually watch the fingers on the fret board and on the strings and do the same with your fingers.
If you have always wanted to learn how to play blues on the guitar there is no longer any excuse. Pick up a guitar, go to the Internet and learn to play. Many famous artists learned how to play by themselves so you can do it too.
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