In today’s Acoustic Guitar Tutorial we’re looking at how to play Eddie Cochrans SUMMERTIME BLUES.. Released in 1958 this rock n roll – infused song consists of only 3 chords in the key of E – E A & B7. It’s a simple upbeat tune with a repetitive song structure that’s easily memorable.
In this lesson I introduce muted strums in order to build the rhythm and contribute to the drive of the song. I have shown how to play the song without the mutes which is perfectly fine. If you’d like to add in the percussive elements of the mutes I have added these in step by step and included rhythm charts to help with the visual learning.
Listen to the full song playthrough-https://youtu.be/kmu0skw_N-4
The second half of the Verses contains the classic blues riff used in thousands of songs. This is on the A chord section. This is a great riff to master and endlessly effective and useful as a guitarist. I have included tab in this section. If you are unable to play this just play the A chord for this section.
Enjoy learning this summer-inspired Rock n Roll tune. It’s a guitar classic.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Summertime Blues guitar tutorial
0:34 Chords & sections
1:11 intro demo & breakdown (tab)
2:47 intro chords & rhythm breakdown (charts)
4:00 adding the mutes (with charts)
5:21 slow counted play-through (intro)
5:50 Verse demo
6:35 Verse breakdown (mutes & chords)
7:55 blues riff demo (tab)
9:51 Song structure
10:09 Play-through Intro Verse
Listen to the full song play-through – https://youtu.be/kmu0skw_N-4
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