The blues are a unique style of playing guitar that digs its roots deep back into black slavery in America. This unique form of guitar scales have sense of soul and bellowing sorrow to them, which is why they're called the blues. If you want to learn the blues, first you must have a good foundation in learning the fundamentals in knowing your basic scales as well as chords.
If you want to learn how to execute the blues properly on your guitar, you must already have a somewhat decent background in your major scales and have build certain dexterity with moving your fingertips around like a sweeping pattern. Practice your speed with all four fingers, most especially your index and ring finger since they're used more in blues progressions.
Patterns can be tedious if you're starting out, but they help flex your fingers into shape so they can be faster in terms of response time, enabling you to play more intricate songs. If you know the pattern already, do so first in the regular sweeping pattern then alternate by inverting it as you climb up to the high bass strings.
Accuracy is important when it comes to learning the blues, so take the time know and memorize the scales, then after you've committed them to memory, slowly play your scale progressions faster and faster. As you gain speed, you'll get the general feel of it and you're on your way to improving.
It's amazing that we have internet now, before they had to dig through song books or listen to music and tabulate it by ear - now it's easy as a search engine entry. Back then, musicians listened by ear to read their favorite songs, now it's different, with nowadays know-how now you can listen and even watch your favorite songs over cyberspace.
If you want to learn how to execute the blues properly on your guitar, you must already have a somewhat decent background in your major scales and have build certain dexterity with moving your fingertips around like a sweeping pattern. Practice your speed with all four fingers, most especially your index and ring finger since they're used more in blues progressions.
Patterns can be tedious if you're starting out, but they help flex your fingers into shape so they can be faster in terms of response time, enabling you to play more intricate songs. If you know the pattern already, do so first in the regular sweeping pattern then alternate by inverting it as you climb up to the high bass strings.
Accuracy is important when it comes to learning the blues, so take the time know and memorize the scales, then after you've committed them to memory, slowly play your scale progressions faster and faster. As you gain speed, you'll get the general feel of it and you're on your way to improving.
It's amazing that we have internet now, before they had to dig through song books or listen to music and tabulate it by ear - now it's easy as a search engine entry. Back then, musicians listened by ear to read their favorite songs, now it's different, with nowadays know-how now you can listen and even watch your favorite songs over cyberspace.
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