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Putting the Rhythm on the Blues

The African-American settlers in the deep south of the USA developed a highly exceptional music by the end of the 19th century.   It was typically heard from the prisoners and slaves.  Usually, these were derivatives from the music of field yellers, work songs, even from hymns and shouts. Then this unique musical style was called Blues. A certain town legend says that William Christopher Handy, a cornet player and bandleader, has written the first Blues song which was both written and renowned in the year 1912. The song's title was Yellow Dog Blues.

 

The Blues musical genre has acquired popularity steadily all through the years and in many countries, captivating the hearts and souls of millions.  This, in turn, aroused curiosity to the music lovers to wish for learning the blues guitar themselves. Blues and guitar are essential to each other.  They reciprocate well together harmoniously. It is recommended to use acoustic or electric guitar in playing the Blues. The chunkier strings helps in achieving superior sounding tones and efficiency while nylon strings are discouraged.

 

The 12 bar is used in playing a vast majority of Blues songs.  The 12 bar Blues basically means that each song is divided into 12 "bars" or "patterns" with a given chord progression. The person who is really passionate in educating himself with the blues guitar must then start learning this basic beat - which also happens to be the easiest one too. When playing, this structure is to be repetitive for every verse of the song until the song ends. While working on this, it is suggested that it should be started with a single down strum for each beat, until one becomes common and at ease with it before trying out some complex strumming and other styles.

 

Mostly, blues has a major in chord structure but there are also different scales that can be used in order to create or add a colorful tone associated with Blues.  Some of these scales are major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, dorian, and mixolydian.  These can be used individually or in combination with each other.

If your enthusiasm doesn't fail you, to better learn blues guitar, it is essential to practice the three (3) rhythm feels that are used in Blues, namely, straight feel, shuffle feel, and twelve/eight feel.

 

In the straight feel, the eighth note rhythm is usually used and are spaced equally apart while the shuffle feel follow a long-short scheme (the second note is placed in every pair of eighth notes.)  The twelve/eight rhythm has twelve beats per bar and each eighth note obtains one beat.

Different methods are also vital in playing Blues on the guitar and one of these is the Vibrato.  This is an immensely delightful musical effect that is created when the pitch of a note is slightly changed to a higher pitch and then back to its original pitch by varying the tension of the string.

 

If you'd like to fill the chords with musical figures, turnarounds, intros, and endings - riffs are used.  Turnarounds are frequently played on the last two bars, completing the solo and brings the song back to where it started.  Some turnarounds even make magnificent intros and endings to each song.

 

To fully learn blues guitar, there is no specific technique, system or formula to grasp such mastery.  Learning this musical genre takes continuous wholehearted practice, practice, and more practice.  No matter what you've read about mastering the skills, nothing beats determination and a firm resolve.

 

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