Every now and again a website or magazine asks me to write an article. Last month, Dutch Website Onder Invloed celebrated it’s 5th birthday with a PDF magazine and asked me to write about a musical influence; I chose skiffle music. You can download the PDF of the magazine from the Onder Invloed website:
Here’s a slightly longer version of the article than appeared in the magazine:
Following on from the 12 bar blues post earlier this week, Here’s some blues backing tracks in 3 different keys to practise your chops against:
12 Bar Blues in E backing track
12 Bar Blues in A backing track
12 Bar Blues in G backing track
Chord Sequences – All tracks have a 2 bar intro
E: E/E/E/E A: A/A/A/A G: G/G/G/G
A/ A/ E/E D/ D/ A/A C/ C/ G/G
B7/A/E/B7 E7/D/A/E7 D7/C/G/D7
This is a beginners guide to blues guitar. There are many forms of blues including the 8 bar (Key to the Hughway, Trouble in Mind), and 16 bar formats (Summertime, I’m your Hoochie Coochie Man), and the 12 bar blues. The 12 bar blues is almost certainly the most common form of blues, a music form that can be traced back to the late 19th century. Blues has its roots in Africa, although it is a quinticensually American music form which has many regional variations including, but not limited to Chicago blues, piedmont blues and mississippi delta blues. Musicians best known for piedmont blues include blind boy fuller, blind willie mctell, and possibly the best known sonny terry and brownie McGhee, with the style characterised by syncopated (meaning the emphasis is moved to between the beats) melody produced by playing the melody with the right and fingers while the right hand thumb keeps the beat.
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