Walking The Long Hard Road Of The Blues
Looking to learn to play the best licks on guitar? Well, there's nothing better than the blues. The blues guitar is the great grandfather to all the musical genres that are worth a listen: from rock, rhythm & blues, hip hop, soul, funk, jazz, and even heavy metal. All these genres owe a great big shout out to granddaddy blues. Learning the blues is not so easy. More than just great guitar playing, it's looking into you deep -deep enough to find something worth playing the blues for. It's turning that misery into great blues licks.
All the great blues singers and guitarists, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, everyone, put their heart into their music. That's how they played. They did it as more emotional than technical act by letting the blues slip out and speak for it. Every performance they gave was frighteningly sincere and honest. But before all that, you'll need to get down to the basics. If you graduate from the basics then maybe you can start playing real blues. Needless to say, if you're not already a pro (and even if you are), getting professional help will go far in learning to play the best sound that can come out of a guitar -the classic blues.
Sure it would be real awesome if you could just teach yourself how to play. But not everyone's cut out for that. Even the best professionals in the business are not all self-taught.
Blues is today considered the music of intellectuals. Unknown to most, blues takes roots in recounting worker's tales. It's a perpetually raised fist against slavery. An echo of protest in another lost era of the last century. It is almost too awesome. The aspiring blues poet !Blues guitar licks are not easily mastered. All the greats: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, not one of them perfected the blues overnight. Ask any professional and they all say the same thing. To give justice to playing the blues you need to keep in mind 3 things:
Technique. As with any skill, you need to know how to play the guitar. You'll need musicality -an appreciation and fairly good execution of good music. Not just anyone can play the blues. Practice makes perfect. Licks. If technique is your ticket to playing, then a bottomless bag of tricky licks is your game plan. Blues licks are actually a sticky combination of technique and confidence. Playing the blues is a whole lot of improvisation, and a good player needs to be ready to spit out and good licks. Don't be afraid to have some fun. Blues is about expression.
Soul. Perhaps the most important part of the process. It's the reason the blues exist, heck, it's why music exists. You need soul to bring out some soul in your playing. But don't force this -it should come out naturally. Obviously, any aspiring musician needs a guitar. Acoustic will do, and so will electric -as long as you can play the blues, so can both guitar types. Listening to good blues music and trying to imitate good licks will help. But if it's too difficult to follow the greats, blues backing tracks can be downloaded online and are great instructional tools, useful to both amateurs and pros. Finally, like any other skill, practice makes perfect. Dexterous fingers don't happen overnight. Play until you're tired of playing, and then to relax, play some more -that's the blues guitar, you either love it or leave it. - 18424
All the great blues singers and guitarists, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Robert Johnson, Janis Joplin, everyone, put their heart into their music. That's how they played. They did it as more emotional than technical act by letting the blues slip out and speak for it. Every performance they gave was frighteningly sincere and honest. But before all that, you'll need to get down to the basics. If you graduate from the basics then maybe you can start playing real blues. Needless to say, if you're not already a pro (and even if you are), getting professional help will go far in learning to play the best sound that can come out of a guitar -the classic blues.
Sure it would be real awesome if you could just teach yourself how to play. But not everyone's cut out for that. Even the best professionals in the business are not all self-taught.
Blues is today considered the music of intellectuals. Unknown to most, blues takes roots in recounting worker's tales. It's a perpetually raised fist against slavery. An echo of protest in another lost era of the last century. It is almost too awesome. The aspiring blues poet !Blues guitar licks are not easily mastered. All the greats: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Richie Havens, not one of them perfected the blues overnight. Ask any professional and they all say the same thing. To give justice to playing the blues you need to keep in mind 3 things:
Technique. As with any skill, you need to know how to play the guitar. You'll need musicality -an appreciation and fairly good execution of good music. Not just anyone can play the blues. Practice makes perfect. Licks. If technique is your ticket to playing, then a bottomless bag of tricky licks is your game plan. Blues licks are actually a sticky combination of technique and confidence. Playing the blues is a whole lot of improvisation, and a good player needs to be ready to spit out and good licks. Don't be afraid to have some fun. Blues is about expression.
Soul. Perhaps the most important part of the process. It's the reason the blues exist, heck, it's why music exists. You need soul to bring out some soul in your playing. But don't force this -it should come out naturally. Obviously, any aspiring musician needs a guitar. Acoustic will do, and so will electric -as long as you can play the blues, so can both guitar types. Listening to good blues music and trying to imitate good licks will help. But if it's too difficult to follow the greats, blues backing tracks can be downloaded online and are great instructional tools, useful to both amateurs and pros. Finally, like any other skill, practice makes perfect. Dexterous fingers don't happen overnight. Play until you're tired of playing, and then to relax, play some more -that's the blues guitar, you either love it or leave it. - 18424
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