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Charlie Patton (1891-1934) Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958) Blind Lemon Jefferson (1893-1929) Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) (1888-1949) Son House (1902-1988) Robert Johnson (1911-1938) John Lee Hooker () Skip James () Blind Willie Johnson ()
To play a Blues in E, we’ll need to learn to switch between three chords – E7, A7 and B7. In this first installment we’ll look at E7 and A7 and get used to going back and forth between the two chords. Then we’ll set up a 4/4 rhythm and start to put them into […]
This is a study to help you to prepare for playing more complex fingerstyle Blues. The thumb plays in a ragtime style with the bass note alternating on each beat between the root and the fifth of the chord, followed by another chord tone on the off beat. It’s basically “boom-chick-boom-chick” with the “booms” alternating […]
I call this lick the “Rock Steady” lick because I first learned it from into of the the Bad Company tune of that name. It sounds great with a slight bend on the first dyad (remember that a two note chord is properly called a dyad – a full chord requires at least 3 notes).