Blues Improvisation

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Blues Improvisation 2: Playing “Outside” The Beginner’s Box

Blues Improvisation

In our previous lesson, we learned the “beginner’s box”. Today we’re going to take things a step further and learn to think “outside the box”.… Read More »Blues Improvisation 2: Playing “Outside” The Beginner’s Box

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Blues Improvisation 1: The Beginner’s Box

Blues Improvisation

Blues improvisation is not hard to do. You may think that you need an arsenal of notes and tricks, but in reality, you only need… Read More »Blues Improvisation 1: The Beginner’s Box

What Is The Blues?

Blues Guitar

blues (blz)

A state of depression or melancholy. Often used with the.
2. A style of music evolved from southern African-American secular songs and usually distinguished by a syncopated 4/4 rhythm, flatted thirds and sevenths, a 12-bar structure, and lyrics in a three-line stanza in which the second line repeats the first: “The blues is an expression of anger against shame and humiliation” (B.B. King).Read More »What Is The Blues?