General Music Chat

I'll definitely look!

You should get familiar with the roots, this guy was there way back when ... http://youtu.be/QwjGytOVVQA

Was he use an open chord tuning?

Was he use an open chord tuning?

Open "G"

KNEW IT. The Slide was a dead giveaway.

When I feel my chops are sounding stale I tend to check out old blues or jazz guys blowing sax or trombone.

It gives you a different perspective on phrasing.

Check out John Mayall's "Blues from Laurel Canyon" album. he wrote the whole thing about a two week visit to LA back in the day. He got excited, he met cool guys, jammed, had an affair - heart was broken, went back to England. That guy could drop his car keys and come up with a song about it in two seconds.

His lead guitarists at the time was Mick Taylor so it smokes.

It also helps to go way back to guys like Huddy Ledbetter (leadbelly) and the delta blues gang, the Chicago guys (getting electic now) to see how it got started. See Liighting Hopkins, Buddy Guy et al.

One reason I like blues is that lyrically - anything goes:
"Wife killed a chicken - thought it was a duck!
Put 'im on the table with 'is legs stickin' up!" (Muddy)

Talbot

Most blues riffs are pentatonic riffs right?

Most blues riffs are pentatonic riffs right?

Blues 101 yes, but there is a whole bunch of stuff outside the standard minor pent scale. Depending on the application you can use almost anything in blues as passing tones as long as you anchor it with the familiar notes of the chord.

Ok, so the familiar notes are the notes that are in the chord the rhythm guitar is playing right? so if it was an E you could play an E based riff?

yep

Ok thank god i thought it was gonna be insanely complicated.

This guy does a pretty good job of breaking things down. Here is a tasty little solo using only 4 notes. He is a well known local player with LOTS of online blues lessons. If you use him, tell him Cajundaddy says hello.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84cEzgO4Qwk

That's a good video!

Once you've mastered the 4 note solo, you'll be ready for something a bit more challenging like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J503OvHWKko

There is a certain feeling of I can't (and don't exactly want to) play quite THAT fast but it's good. The only problem I would have is not being able to phrase and bend quite to the perfection I like to get in reggae (not much chance to solo I like to do it right when i do) and rock... But still that would be an EPIC showoff song!