How To Play The Blues

Today's post is for all you amateur musicians out there, reprinted from the Unofficial Terry Hanck Blog. Check out the other entries on that great blog, too. By the way, although Terry Hanck looks almost human, I am convinced that he is either a robot or a space alien. I'll let you be the judge.

How To Play The Blues

Ampere-hour, the blue. One of the far away most well-known forms of music the blue as mouth tradition can be pursued back to the middle 1800s and finds his roots of Europe and of Africa. However the blue, since we know, is it today only an American kind of music. It began first, into the early 1900s, with chaps such as WC handy letters Lieden like “Memphis blue” u. “pc. of Louis blue to be popularized.” In the twenties and in the thirties guitarists used slides of broken bottle beginnings, around the dia. clay/tone (to cause the something, which, each possible guitarist should learn with the desire, the Blueselectrified Guitarre is to play the blue is main those Guitarre and piano, which are focused, but it can be also played on other instruments. In order to play the blue, there are some points and cheat those you received can began fast.

First of all the blue with FEELING must be played. A very less technical kind, which you particularly find once you, is used for some advancements of receiving to chords and to scales. Secondly you keep comfortable with a blue rhythm, when practicing (most blue is in 4/4 time signing.) Then you learn to play the blue scale and a blue advancement a leaving you us the blue scale to regard. To play is really rather simple and functioned away from the main scale. Everything is it is really the main scale with added flatpressed 3., 5. and 7.. So if you played in the key of C, the blue scale would look like this: C D Eb E F GB G a Bb C. That is it. The scale is ideal for improvising over a blue advancement, which you should also practice and learn, in order to play. Blue advancements over 12 masses (staffs) are usual - which are taken place, why it admits, while 12 blue hold. If you played the first 4 staffs in the root chord (C) in the key of C for example you, 5. would play and 6. Staffs in 4. Distance (f), 7. and 8. Staffs back to the root notice (C), 9. and 10. Staffs in 5. Distance (G) and terminate away from the last two staffs in the root note again (C.) If you wanted to play chords over this advancement, you became at the dominating 7. Chords to cling and improvise the straight blue scale would play you as above. Guitarists can some cheat - with a dia. or “wriggling” notes add for any extra feeling. Blue this amazing ability has received from you addicted very fast to it. It is really a singular kind for back-ups and improvising, and a song can carry (literally) hours long on. Its roots in the blue, learning not only that, but since other forms of the music discovery, to play the blue increases your ability in those kinds likewise. There is quite no other kind of music, how her, which carried such an influence on other kinds of music and which such has a rich inheritance. Surprisingly although, the blue is not that to play is difficult became music ever more generally) and in the forties large began the volume to take over. This meant that Guitarren moved mainly into the rhythm section. Then the fifties arrived, where piano-blue and Guitarre blue began to develop to rock and role and other forms from music to. This is also, if amplifiers and and you soon able to play the blue with feeling and Muehelosigkeit are.

Comments

[AnAnonymousParty]

Yeah, that sounds about right.

[Jonathan Steinke]

Robot...but what exquisite musings can pour from a robot.