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I am a BEGINNER,with a decent grip on chords and all the basic stuff required,but I don't know the right way to proceed towards learning to play blues guitar.I want to learn slow and steady and NEED A PLAN for it,and most importantly a right direction to start...any well versed volunteer with a desire to help would be deeply appreciated and i am sure helpful...THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.
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Blues is a genre of music that requires the player to really listen to a lot of the music and various types of blues to be able to get an understanding and a "feel" for the style. The form is rather basic but within that context there is a very wide range of variations and stylistic interpretations of the idiom. The basic structure of the music is based around what is known as the "I-IV-V" progression. This means a chord progression based on the 1st, 4th, and 5th chords in any specific key. For example: the chords A, D and E are I, IV, and V, in the key of A major. Atypical blues progression uses a 12 bar (12 measures) structure with a basic melody that is often the same or very similar throughout the piece. A very typical blues progression would be as follows;
A/// //// //// ////
D/// //// A/// ////
E/// //// A/// ////
This is a very common "standard" blues progression that can be played in 4/4 or 3/4 and with any variety of tempo from a very slow dirge to a quick 4/4 shuffle.
Some very common alterations to this progression would be using 7th chords in combination or in place of the standard major chords. There are also a variety of different alterations and additions to the structure such as the "quick change" which puts the IV chord in the second bar of the progression, as well as the "turn around" which puts the V then IV then I then finally the V chord in the last 4 bars of the progression respectively.
There is a lot of information about the blues written but the best teacher is listening to a lot of blues and then buying some good Blues books with various standard blues songs in them. A good teacher can help you explore the style in greater depth and help you with many signature "riffs" and "licks" that are essential to the vocabulary of the blues.
Blues is a genre of music that requires the player to really listen to a lot of the music and various types of blues to be able to get an understanding and a "feel" for the style. The form is rather basic but within that context there is a very wide range of variations and stylistic interpretations of the idiom. The basic structure of the music is based around what is known as the "I-IV-V" progression. This means a chord progression based on the 1st, 4th, and 5th chords in any specific key. For example: the chords A, D and E are I, IV, and V, in the key of A major. Atypical blues progression uses a 12 bar (12 measures) structure with a basic melody that is often the same or very similar throughout the piece. A very typical blues progression would be as follows;
A/// //// //// ////
D/// //// A/// ////
E/// //// A/// ////
This is a very common "standard" blues progression that can be played in 4/4 or 3/4 and with any variety of tempo from a very slow dirge to a quick 4/4 shuffle.
Some very common alterations to this progression would be using 7th chords in combination or in place of the standard major chords. There are also a variety of different alterations and additions to the structure such as the "quick change" which puts the IV chord in the second bar of the progression, as well as the "turn around" which puts the V then IV then I then finally the V chord in the last 4 bars of the progression respectively.
There is a lot of information about the blues written but the best teacher is listening to a lot of blues and then buying some good Blues books with various standard blues songs in them. A good teacher can help you explore the style in greater depth and help you with many signature "riffs" and "licks" that are essential to the vocabulary of the blues.
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