Jim Bruce Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons goo.gl/tq2gUb Robert Johnson - Me and the Devil - Learn Blues Guitar OK, You Want To Learn How To Play - But First Steps First There can't be too many people who watch a blues man play a heart stopping riff on the guitar and not ache to make the same sound. There's something very cool about it that transcends the physical movements. music doesn't have to be incredibly complicated or showy - Lightnin' Hopkins could play a simple bass pattern that could give you goose bumps. The first thing we need to do is choose which style of blues guitar we'd want to play. This is crucial - you have a lot of practice ahead of you, and you should passionate about the music. If you say ' blues guitar ', different ideas will spring to mind for a wide variety of people, according to on their age and personality. For some, the electric blues of Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton is the goal. Other people are looking for the truth of the original acoustic blues guitar. For the purposes of this discussion, I'll gather all the electric styles together and simply dub it ' electric ' , because I'm really just interested in the foundation of all electric blues music, acoustic blues guitar. What are the various styles of classic acoustic and how should we categorize them? We might do this according to technique, sound or location. In Truth, location appears to have had quite an effect on the musical style of that region due to the fact that blues men swapped ideas from each other. In this way, regional musical styles developed. Blues Guitar From The Delta It's supposed that this is the region where the blues began, although it's more likely that began in several areas round about the same time. Certainly, quite a few mississippi blues men moved to the North to ply their trade in cities like Chicago and Detroit when they realized that they could make a living without laboring sixteen hours every in the fields. The first acoustic songs by Muddy Waters (Walkin' Blues) is testimony to this authentic delta technique By the way, Muddy said that his version of Walkin pre-dated that of Robert Johnson. Delta blues guitar could be described as quite simple, often raw and deeply emotional. The bottleneck style of picking guitar was perfect for the area. The conditions were usually hot with high humidity, which played havoc with a wooden instrument's tuning. Slide tunes performed in open G or D were easier to keep in tune, and additionally it was easy to adjust for tuning inaccuracy by moving the slide around. Pieces from mississippi delta played in standard tuning were predominantly in the Keys of A and E, and used a monotonic bass pattern. The picking patterns were quite simple but powerful. Blues men to listen to are Robert Johnson, Son House, Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell. Deep River Blues Lesson www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lMZxM5AFQ More guitar blues music here www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWGIiuAHveI Robert Leroy Johnson was born Hazlehurst, Mississippi, in May, 1911 or maybe 1912 His way of combining his singing and guitar skills have influenced many modern guitarists (although personally, I don't think much of his song writing creativity - I suspect that he 'borrowed' many of his renditions, either adapting traditional tunes or re-naming others). For example, Sweet Home Chicago is a straight copy of Scrapper Blackwell's Kokomo Blues. Johnson died at age 27 and became surrounded by myth featuring a crossroads and the devil - hogwash, of course, he just practiced like the Devil himself. Johnson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an "Early Influence" in 1986 and as we know, some people (such as EC) want to be him. This isn't possible - Robert Johnson was Robert Johnson! When looking at how to play blues guitar in Johnson's style, without a doubt we have to get into the technicalities of his style, but no amount of blues guitar lessons can give us the 'feeling'. Acoustic blues guitar played in the style of Johnson is at the same time subtle by intense. Properly done, it is exciting - badly done and it's banal. Best we can do is to try and pay homage and capture the spirit of the legendary blues men. Jim Bruce Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons goo.gl/tq2gUb This video www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxmGC1WqEiY

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