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Learning how to play and improvise great blues riffs and licks is not as easy as it looks to a newcomer, but one good thing is that focused learning and practicing with a large blues backing track will help a lot in understanding blues chords and progression.
Using blues backing tracks is an important aspect of playing blues guitar. Blues is one of the origins of jazz music and you will only influence of the blues, even in contemporary jazz. Most of the blues music and those in the common blues backing tracks are pentatonic scales, the Mixolydian scales. These scales can be used in the rock and thus used for blues are enhanced with the blues notes. If you understand the basics of the blue note then you are able to improvise over blues backing tracks with ease. In short, use of blue notes a decrease in the pitch of the 3rd, 5th and 7th of the large scale. If you hear a professional talk about a blues scale than what they actually mean is the pentatonic minor scale with a blue note like b5.
There are many people that blues jam backing tracks in the C-key and the chords used are C, C7, F7 and G7. If th numbers are for a solo over the Am pentatonic scale will more perfectly useful and to some extent. Some of the other options of blues guitar backing tracks C-minor pentatonic consists of the blues scale and c-C-major and Bb major scales in the Dorian mode.
Blues Chords and Progression
Here are some characteristics of the blues chords and progression, that will surely help you blues effective backing tracks play:
 · Most of the blues chord progressions in a 12 bar form. Apart from this, you can also find 14, 16, 24 or even higher number bar blues forms.
 · The agreement tonic blues progression is basically the dominant 7th agreement.
 · The blues music is predominantly defined not only as music that focuses on chord changes and scales, but also feelings.
 · There are 3 basic chords in the blues and they are all dominant 7th chords.
Some of the blues backing tracks techniques include:
 · Using hammer-on or even a slide right to B3 3 natural
 · Mixing the Mixolydian scale with the dominant blues scale
Mixing scales is probably the best way of strengthening the blues backing tracks techniques
Blues Tabs
In the first part, you must use the C Mixolydian scale with a natural 3. In the second half of the 2nd bar, should make use of the C minor pentatonic scale with a flat, 3. If you really want blues backing tracks techniques then the best place to start learning is by listening to the recording of blues guitarists or legends as BB King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. You can also listen to some of the compositions of famous jazz guitarists like Kenny Burrell and George Benson.
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Centerstream Publishing Sonny Terry Licks For Blues Harmonica (Book/CD) $19.95 Centerstream Publishing Sonny Terry Licks For Blues Harmonica (Book/CD) |
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Centerstream Publishing Sonny Terry Licks For Blues Harmonica (Book/Cd) $19.95 Centerstream Publishing Sonny Terry Licks For Blues Harmonica (Book/CD) |
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The Sourcebook Of Sonny Terry Licks For Harmonica $19.95 "By Sonny Terry. For harmonica. Harmonica. Blues. Difficulty: medium. Instructional book and examples CD. Harmonica notation, instructional text, performance notes, introductory text and black & white photos. 48 pages. Published by Centerstream Publications" |
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60 Hot Licks for Harmonica Book/CD Set $14.95 "By Lonnie Joe Howell. For Harmonica (Diatonic). Licks and Phrases. Texas Music and Video. All Styles. Intermediate. Book/CD Set. 40 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc" |