The blues guitar in America
The blues as a musical craze began around 1911 when W.C. Handy published some trendy songs, notably "Memphis Blues" and "St Louis Blues", which touched the hearts of the black people. By the nineteen twenties the broad population were starting to heed this new music through its affect on jazz. Early blues singers like Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday sang with jazz bands while others played with "jug bands" accompanied by fiddle, kazoo and washboard.
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What is the blues?
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Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form which is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll is characterized by the use of specific chord progressions ? the twelve-bar blues chord progressions being the most frequently encountered ? and the blue note that for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent in relation to the pitch of the major scale.
The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided in several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues rock evolved.
The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).The "Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé" provides this etymology to the word blues and George Colman's farce as the first appearance of this term in the English language, see http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/fast.exe?mot=blues Though the use of the phrase in African American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand's "Dallas Blues" became the first copyrighted blues composition.Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. New York: Hyperion, 1995.Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 2002, Routledge (UK), ISBN 0-415-29189-5 In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.Tony Bolden, Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture, 2004, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02874-0
Blues Chords 101
Blues Chords 101
Visit http://playingthroughtheblues.com/blog/blues-guitar-chord-chart for a .pdf file containing the chords seen in this video. A good solid set of blues chords. These work great for most blues songs. I've divided the lesson into the 3 chord families, major, minor, and dominant 7th chords. These chords are really the ones you must know before tackling lead blues guitar. They are the most common blues chords for the guitar.
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Learning How To Play Blues Guitar - The Basics
Nobody ever talks about this, but when you learn how to play blues guitar you only really ever learn to accompany one tune.
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Minor Blues Chord Progressions
Minor Blues Chord Progressions - Guitar Lesson
Study guitar online with Berklee: http://www.berkleemusic.com/school/courses/guitar/?pid=2036 Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music, Michael Williams explains minor blues progressions for the rhythm guitar in the style of BB King's "The Thrill is Gone" in this Berklee guitar lesson. Berkleemusic.com is the continuing education division of Berklee College of Music, delivering online access to Berklee's acclaimed curriculum from anywhere in the world and teaching online music production, music business, songwriting, guitar, bass, music theory, arranging and performance. http://www.berkleemusic.com/?pid=2036
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The blues keeps growing
And this is where the blues takes another course. After years of imitating their idols something odd happened to the white blues guitar players in Britain and the USA. They developed their own authentic, earliest styles. The elder blues players even began using the new arrangements of classic songs and adopting some of the unbluesy musical innovations introduced by young white guitarists like Eric Clapton. So the beat goes on. An alien culture influences American popular music and in turn gets fresh input from a new generation of guitar players from all over the world.
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During the Big Band Era of the 1930's and '40's, the guitar players with the orchestras found that they needed some way of being heard above the sound of the rest of the instruments. This is where the electric guitar as we know it got its first big break.
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