Click on the link above to get the tabs for this video! GO! ws1.guitarcontrol.com And don´t forget to subscribe to our youtube channel… Blues Guitar Lesson: In this guitar lesson, Jon MacLennan will teach you a basic blues Riff that every aspiring blues player must know. As you can imagine there are hundreds of this kind of riffs so that´s why I really recommend you to learn some of the examples you can find in our youtube channel. These riffs are very important in blues music, so once you have some of them down you will master like a 50 per cent of your blues rhythm guitar. Ok, so… What is a riff? A riff is the part of the song that you will remember, it can be done with pentatonic, major or minor scales… it depends of the song and the context. For example, do you know Smoke on the water by Deep Purple? That is one of the most known riffs ever. Also the Enter sandman´s riff by Metallica. The example of today´s lesson, it is more like a bass line, which is something very used in this popular music style. It´s basically a 12 bar blues progression where instead of playing full chords we just play single note lines. The riff is in E7 and ofcourse we will have the traditional chords I-IV-V. I also recommend you to listen to the greatest bluesmen of all time, such as BB King, Albert King, Robert Johnson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, etc. But as I always recommend, it is pretty important that you come up with your own ideas, which is the best advice for starting to find `your <b>…<b>
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Very impressed. You seem like a great teacher. I’ll have to show this to my nephew who is learning to play the guitar.
Hey, you’re pretty good! Wish I could play guitar!
I’m very impressed ! You are a great teacher.
You are awesome! I was able to pick this up right away !!
Nice video, I’m going to try those progression lines
Very informative video. I never knew there was so much in bringing that definitive blues sound on a guitar. Jon is a great teacher and can definitely groove!
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