By Tom Simpson
How do you begin to make good blues music? Before you start doing a blues guitar solo in front of that crowd, you had better think twice. If you dont want the crowd to demand that you leave, youd better bring your ace game into the gig. In order for that to happen, youll need to brush up on a bit of blues guitar lessons to get you in the right track of things. You see, impressing the crowd with your blues guitar is a bit more difficult than just following the chords in a guitar book.
Be like the masters! Im not the one who will teach you. In fact, you will be taught by the masters of the blues like Eric Clapton, BB King or whoever may be your blues idol. Teaching you their individual styles will be easy thanks to the collection of blues backing tracks available in the archives online. These backing tracks are also a collection of blues licks that you can use to fill that guitar solo of yours.
Take lessons from the masters. Even if you will not be personally trained by Led Zeppelin, you can still take a few lessons from this legendary musician. You see, stored in the Internet are backing tracks that you can download and listen to. You can just type blues backing tracks on the search engine textbox and youll find hundreds of results. But when you do download them, what should you do afterwards?
Be the music. Music can be used to tell a great story about the performerthis is what the blues is all about. In order for you to tell a great story, you need to have a coherent grasp of vocabularyor, in the case of being a blues performer, notes. A lick is a short segment of notes, much like a sentence. Now, to continue the blues guitar lessons that we have started so far, if you have a collection of those licks like we said you should have, you can start telling your own story.
Learn by yourself. If you dont want to shoulder the huge expense of having to enrol in a music school to get blues guitar lessons, you just need to be satisfied with learning by yourself. But dont worry. This is one of the best ways to start learning the blues guitar style of playing. Alone you can play with emotion and thats an advantage.
Every blues song is full of soul because each performance tells a different story. You probably sucked on stage the last time you performed because your crowd wasnt able to get the story that you want to tell them through your music. Or even worse, you didnt even have a story to tell now that is just sad! So what you do is study those blues licks I told you to download. Every lick is like a sentence in a story with the combination of notes making some sort of musical sense. So what youre supposed to do is to combine those blues licks to form a coherent story and youve just made an excellent guitar solo piece!
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