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Skiffle

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:

Blues Guitar playing

Blues Backing Tracks

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