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Post subject: Need Average Difficulty Blues Song
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:55 am
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I have been playing guitar for 2 years off an on now and i am really back into it. I can play some songs but i am not that good. i need to know if anyone has any good blues songs or song that i could probably play, and a link to the tablature.


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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:07 pm
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Try google - if you type in the song+tab, you'll get something like this :

http://www.google.com/search?q=Rock+Me+ ... tartPage=1

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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:01 pm
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little wing isn't terribly hard at parts.... maybe learn the intro which isn't too bad then play chords or just jam in that key...i find it a fun song to play, even if not the same as hendrix but just messing around with scales to the rhythm


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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:04 pm
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Anything from ZZ Top.

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Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:07 pm
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a lot of clapton stuff when he was in cream isn't too difficult... sunshine of your love, white room, etc.


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Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 10:58 am
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Any B.B. King is pretty good to start out with. I find the solos are clearer, straight forward, and slower, thus easier to follow than other blues stuff.


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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:54 pm
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No Blues is hard. Blues is simple music with unfathomable possibilities. Just learn the scales. Blues lead is based on the Blues scales. BB is good to play because he is pure Blues and he plays the pure form. Jimi play Blues but he will solo over several keys playing Blues riffs, while in pure Blues the solo is in the key of the song and stays there. If you play classic BB King, like Slow Walk or You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now, you will have to stretch your hand and play with your little finger and not just play the middle digits because you'll be going from fret 7 to 10 and so forth. Once you master BB King, you'll see that Clapton is playing exactly the same stuff, expressing his own Blues, often going for a discordant sound from striking two strings and bending only one, and Clapton also will go down into the area of the 20th fret. You'll see Duane Allman plays pure Blues riffs, just sliding. You'll see a lot of rock bands play almost nothing at all.


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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:59 pm
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Sorry I didn't mention but the key to playing Blues well enough to enjoy it is playing legato well, which is playing notes without picking them. It's hammer-ons, where you sound the note by striking the string at that fret, pull-offs where you sound the note by fretting it and plucking the string when you pull your finger off a higher fret, and bending where if you want to do a Buddy Guy you can sound who knows how many notes off one string with 1/4, 1/2, 1, 1 1/2, 2 step bends. If you're playing Allman and the tab says the 26th fret, that's a two-step bend on the 22d fret.


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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:09 pm
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I love to play the Blues and do it often and so this really got me going. I don't agree that BB King is easy to play. Actually, I find that after playing BB King, much of the other music you may play from tab is simple and requires less of the little finger. BB King plays extremely fast bursts in many of his songs, but then he also slows it down at times it's true. With the slow BB though, he's usually doing a lot - like multiple bends and sustained vibrato that is challenging and valuable to master. When you leave BB King and play Clapton or Allman or many of the other great guitar players who we can read and play, you'll see they may play faster and also they do less. So, knowing the Blues scales and just getting familiar with the song, and not having to bend and vibrato every note as in the BB King stuff, it's easy to play fast once you know the song. When you start doing more per note and then do less the speed escalates. It's good to play the King because it opens up everything else to understanding and a lot of his songs are covered by Buddy Guy and others.


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I have found there are no easy blues songs. Anyone can learn the notes and chords of songs. Blues means that your fingers and soul are in synche. Learning the soul of the song is not something you can just finger. To really play the blues you've got to be in the blues zone.


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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:50 am
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vcartier I agree 100 percent. When I play BB King's blues catalogue of written songs - and he actually reads and writes music - I play it with my own individual stamp on it. When I play Clapton songs, I play it with my own individual stamp on it. Now, in some ways, that's the "sucks" stamp, but also it's the individual playing through his guitar. That's the blues, when you play it through your blues. Even more pure is when you take the guitar and play your own blues telling a story through what you play - your story. Both ways are the blues. Just playing note perfect without feel - I don't think it can be done to stay in time and do the bends and vibrato of these songs without the feel. I can't do it that way, but if anyone can that's not the blues. The blues is simple but deep and mysterious.


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strat58cat You are so right. That is what it is all about. Its your music played by you. I am sure it doesn't suck one bit. I will be watching TV and just be noodling and coming up with riffs of some kind. They may not be right according to scale, but they sound good to me and that is all that matters. You know if we were lucky enough to ever get infront of an arena sized crowd and played those riffs, we would be called the new geniuses.


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Learn some Willie Dixon, you'll find yourself on a Blues Pilgrimage taken by everybody from Jeff Beck to Dave Mustaine.

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Willie Dixon..now that is what they call the blues


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Buddy Guy - Mary Had a Little Lamb
Great blues classic, if that's to easy for you, play Stevie's version :twisted:


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