Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons www.play-blues-guitar.eu/menu-36-lessons-review.php Free Lessons and News Letter Sign Up youtunerecords.com/lp/jblet.html Sign Up Now and get these Free Goodies: Complete Robert Johnson Lesson Download, two MP3 Albums (Acoustic Blues Travellers and Blind Blake) and a mini-course of 7 streamed videos covering basic blues picking techniques. You just can't get enough of Big Bill..... Maybe the most complicated blues style of all, the top performers were real masters of this way of playing. Ragtime guitar songs generally use chord structures in the keys of G and C, and featuring six or seven chord changes rather than the 3 or 4 associated with Mississippi or Texas songs in E or A. (There are always the exceptions that prove the rule!) Other features are a strong bass line alternating between 2 or 3 strings, a melody played at the same time on the higher strings and often lyrics punctuated by single string runs played with alternating finger and thumb. Probably the two grand masters of ragtime blues were Arthur Blake and Reverend Gary Davis. Blind Blake's bass work was particularly slick, sometimes doubling up on the beat and rolling his picking thumb between two strings, creating a highly syncopated sound. Reverend could truly play any style - blues, gospel and ragtime blues. Some performers, like as Big Bill Broonzy, employed a monotonic bass picking pattern, but was much more inventive than the majority of the delta blues men. He could play Tin Pan Alley standards, ballads, and often cross over into jazz and ragtime in his approach. Broonzy created a style we could call Chicago swing. Deep River Blues Lesson www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lMZxM5AFQ More blues guitar music - Robert Johnson www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGIiuAHveI

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