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West Coast Blues Guitar Lessons – Introduction

Author: Twang

Twang says this has always been one of top guitar sounds. Watching the Great Holllywood Fats live playing this stuff was awesome. CHeck out some free blues guitar lessons over at truefire.
Many a guitar legend has cut their teeth and left their mark on the jazz-influenced blues style known as “West Coast Blues” (aka “jump” blues): Charlie Christian, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Albert Collins, Johnny Guitar Watson, Duke Robillard, Hollywood Fats, Little Charlie Baty are just a few. But T-Bone Walker is likely the genre’s definitive guitarist. Relocating from Texas to Los Angeles in the early 40′s, Walker’s “electrification and urbanization of the blues” and catalog of blues hits for Capitol, Black & White, and Imperial would “popularize the use of electric guitar in the form more so than anyone else.” T-Bone’s “distinct jazzy jump blues” feel – Texas blues with a pinch of bebop, a dash of rockabilly, and a whole lotta swing – would influence the music scene in California during the 1940′s and 1950′s with many other Texas bluesmen following the migration to the west coast. So many of the blues licks we play today, which we’ve copped from our current and previous generation blues heroes, are actually rooted back to jump and West Coast blues phrases – especially the tasty ones! We all pretty much agree that implying changes, as opposed to just blowing pentatonic runs, is what separates the men from the boys when soloing over standard blues changes. Implying changes, targeting tones, applying extensions are key elements of the West Coast style and good reason enough to study the genre. But …

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Acoustic Guitar Lessons – Fingerstyle Roots, Rags, & Blues – Mississippi Blues 6

Author: Twang

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Virtuoso acoustic wizard and fingerstyle master, Tim Sparks presents Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues, an insightful exploration of Early Americana Roots music and intensive fingerstyle study program for intermediate and advanced students. Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues covers Delta Blues, Country Gospel, New Orleans, Ragtime, Early Jazz and the most amazing version of “The Mississippi Blues” that we’ve ever seen performed or heard here at TrueFire. The tunes in this collection evoke a time when American Roots music crystallized and was transformed by the effects of recordings and radio. Some of these selections were written for guitar, others are adaptations from piano and jazz band arrangements. A long list of Roots Music fingerstyle guitarists particularly influenced the material covered in Fingerstyle Roots, Rags & Blues; Duck Baker, Pat Donohue, Woody Mann, Steve James, Eric Lugosch, Eric Schonberg, Ernie Hawkins, Dakota Dave Hull, Phil Heywood, Guy van Duser, Lasse Johansson, Andy Ellis and Teja Gerken. Tim Sparks has been redefining the acoustic guitar repertoire since he won the US National Fingerstyle Championship in 1993 with a ground-breaking arrangement of Tchaikovskys Nutcracker Suite. Since then, Sparks has continued to surprise, challenge, and thrill audiences with his diverse repertoire and stunning technique. Equally at home within the Country Blues …

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American roots music Blues Music History

Author: Twang

Blues is probably the purest American music ever produced – and along with its jazz counterpart – is the only true American music kind. Its roots lie within the function songs of West African slaves in the South. When they toiled hard within the fields of South plantation owners, these slaves built a ‘call and response’ method of singing, thus lending rhythm towards the drudgery of their lives. These came to be called ‘field hollers’ and became the basis of all blues songs to follow. After the Civil War ended, the blacks could either work as field labor or become traveling minstrels. So very a few ended up being the latter – performing at all-nighters, fish-frys and juke joints, relying on their stamina and mental repertoire of numerous blues songs.

Powerful Blues Songs Is Officially Born

While the lyrics of blues songs seem soulful and sad, the music itself is very effective and emotive – filled with rhythm and celebrating the life of black Americans. What makes this kind of music appealing is its reflection of their daily lives, talking about sex, drinking, poverty, love lost, hard labor – anything they experienced.

Among the first documented blues is W C Handy’s “Memphis Blues” in 1909. The music grew in popularity and when the 78-RPM phonograph came within the late 1920’s Paramount, Aristocrat and other record labels recorded some from the famous country blues artists. Around 1941-1943, field recordings of blues men were made in their surroundings by famous blues folklorist Alan Lomax. This is significant because that’s how the white folks got introduced towards the blues. Budding artists got exposure to some national record labels.

Blues Travels North

The blacks migrated North during the Great Depression along the route from the Illinois Central Railroad toward Chicago, bringing with them blues music. With huge crowds gathering to enjoy this, performers like Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf switched to electric guitars and also included drum sets to their bands. This became even much more powerful than the original blues. There was a lull until the late 1950’s when The Kingston Trio recorded the chart topper, Tom Dooley, and gave birth towards the folk revival in 1958. The Newport Folk Festival then brought back folk and blues music towards the white American people till 1966.

What followed later was a merging of blues with rock – forming the rock blues bands from the 1960s and 1970s. Some artists faithful towards the kind were The Rolling Stones, John Mayall, Led Zeppelin.

Kinds of Blues Songs

You will find four types of blues songs. The Deltas blues is said to be the original – getting played through the black men from the Mississippi delta region, utilizing the piano or harmonica. The style was a call and response lyrical framing. Then we have the Chicago Blues, which used electric amplification of voice using mics, drum sets and electric guitars. The Texas Blues are similar towards the Chicago blues. Within the early 1960s originated the Blues-rock, which was directly influenced through the Delta and Chicago blues.