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Last year I was hooked on Blues eyes…this year it’s El Paso.This morning I played parts of both back to back during my warm up and the “lightbulb”started to blink. Wow, there is a lot to learn from looking/ listening to song solos and intros. Take the solo from “Blue Eyes Crying in the night” and the intro for “El Paso” I can help but wonder if Willie’s solo wasn’t influenced a little by Marty’s intro for “El Paso”. Move the pattern down a few frets then tweak it with a slide, or tremolo and walla you have something new.I am sure Steve has probably said this a thousand times, but the truth is I’ve never tried it.
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You might try this Hank Williams 12 bar tune in open G. I use a boss bd2 blues driver and a blues jr amp.
You could also use standard tuning and play it in A and not play the single note. A7, D7 and E7 without a pedal.You could also include a sliding riff ( page 54 )in A and D to “turn it on over. Oh yeah, you could also play it with a “fast change”.
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0055761
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I personally think this session should be titled “Beginning the Blues” . In this session the Ditto Looper, Memory Man, Blues driver and Carbon Copy pedals come out. Along with a thumb pick and slide.
My resource Material
1. Rubin Ford “The Art of The blues Rhythn”
2.Blues Rhythms You Can Use by John Ganapes
3. 12 Bar Blues Solos by Dave Rubin
4. Blues Licks You Can Use by John Ganapes
5. Blues You can Use by John Ganapes
6. Blues Guitar Unleashed by Griff Hamlim
7. L&M Fingerstyle session 3
8. Beginning Fingerstyle Blues by Arnie Berle and Mark Galbo
9. Blues Traditions by Rev Robert Jones (True fire) thump pick and slide for this resource
10.Blues Soloing Strategies by Wayne Riker
11. Soloing Strategies for guitar by Tom Kolb
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4 hours ago, Eracer_Team-DougH said:
I can't get past session 3 of the LMG Blues course
I know exactly where you are.
Any day now you will insert session 4 and you’ll wonder what has changed.Once you have that “spotlight moment “ the course will be hard to put down.
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When you get to session 5 you might want to look at “75 Blues Turnarounds “ by Michael DoCampo.It has turnarounds emulating numerous players like BB, Page and SRV. My hat goes off to those that can play them all. When the author says “difficult” I just take out my that black magic marker.😎
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Thanks, I guess we will never know what happened unless Dion changes his story. I was mistaken Dion did say he flipped a coin with Valens only that he won, then gave his seat to Valens because of the cost.
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I was listening to Cat Stevens play “Father and Son” and I wasn’t sure what he was doing until I pulled up the sheet music, C/G
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This post is aimed at the beginner who stumbles on this “intermediate” guitar course. Scale length is something that might play a role in your ability to play spread rhythms.I think that Steve stays with the “cut” boogie patterns, but when you add the flat 7th it’s unplayable for my hands with a 25.5 scale.
https://blog.andertons.co.uk/learn/understanding-guitar-scale-length
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The Beatles song Penny Lane has a borrowed chord.What is that chord? Where is is borrowed from?
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0129460
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I was watching the movie la Bamba and towards the end they had the famous coin flip.I wondered if that was true.It sounds like it wasn’t, at least in the case of Valens and Dion DiMucci, Dion says that when he heard the plane ticket was $36 dollars which happened to be the same amount that his folks paid in rent, he couldn’t bring himself to spend the same amount for a short plane ride. So, he gave his seat to Valens. No coin flip.
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Here are eight of the most commonly used scales in Blues and Rock.Bluegrass and country will mostly use Major scales, but they also use the pentatonic, blues and minor scales.
1. Major scales
2. Pentatonic scales major and minor
3. The blues scale
4.Dorian mode
5.Mixolydian mode
6.Natural minor
7. Harmonic minor
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I just changed strings and I left them a little long in case I want to boil them later to see what happens. The truth is I like the sound of old dirty strings better than that. Of new ones.
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I read that guitar strings don’t wear out they just get dirty. So, take them off and place the in boiling water for an hour then dry and reinstall. Anyone use this method?
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I see where a guitar teacher, Nick Tolman is using the Mel Bay Method Books to give Youtube lessons. So, if your Mel Bay methods books are gathering dust, because they are the most difficult beginner guitar books out there, now might be a good time to dust them off. He using the basic books but the material is also in the expanded editions.He said he would also be using the expanded books in the future,
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A lot going on in this lesson. Compound time signatures, use of the capo and rolling 8ths.Seems like a good time to print out a capo chart.Can’t say I’ ve ever seem Italicized chords before. Usually the chord and in parentheses the chord respective to the capoed chord sounding.
One could spend many hours reading about this song. I read where Cohen wrote 80 Verses.Then there is that secret chord. Surely that would have been an advanced chord. Not to many songs teach diatonic chords, the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lifts. The minor fall, the flatted third. The major lifts, changing from a minor to a major, I assume.
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I’ve looked at some other instructors teaching 10ths and one mentioned using whatever fingers you wanted. He personally used the same fingering as Steve for his lesson as did the others I viewed. I find your method uncomfortable and difficult, but then I’ am using some pretty old hands.
Also, I found that learning the intro for the song “El Paso” by Marty Robbins was a fun way of practicing 3rds. Plus, the song uses a minor third tremolo. Goggle “Musicnotes and El Paso”.
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Dolly Parton statue sounds like a no -brainer for Nashville.
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in Learn & Master Blues Guitar
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I bought the L&M course in 2010 or 2011 on sale for $49.95, which seemed pretty cheap and thought in two years I would be ready to start. Well, as you can see its taken a few years longer than I planned. Steve’s course is pretty good, but it could have easily been 10 sessions. I was surprised that it’s still available for $89.00. I often wonder if it’s the exact same course. I noticed the case cover is different. Seems like the Blues Unleashed course was $200. Over 10 years I’ve spend another $200 on Blues books.. Active Melody is pretty good.
I have one true fire courses on slide guitar and it seems pretty good ,but I ‘am still working on slide basics. Would like to have Bonny Raitt as my teacher.
I’ve increased my practice time and that really helps.