Learn Every Blues Song Ever in 8 Minutes

nothing really says blues music like a white guy wearing a linen shirt and chambray Tom's but that doesn't mean I can't feel the Blues in my soul and I'm going to teach you how to play it basically every blues song ever in just a few short minutes so we're going to start by brooding a chord on the fifth fret of the low E string so right here we're going to make a shape out of that now what I mean by a shape is this so we're going to start one corner of the shape is going to be on five low E string play it two times right we're gonna skip two strings to the D string an octave which is the seventh fret of the D string two times again so this is going to be another corner of the shape we're gonna back up two frets on the same string start on five do you play that twice and then finish it finish the shape on the seventh fret of the a-string right here so four corners of a shape so you can see that shape right there now this is a movable shape so you can play any song with this shape by moving it up or down so we're just doing it on the fifth fret of the e-string which is an a so this is gonna be the blues in a if we were to do it up it would be a sharp or B flat we do the exact same shape so all this is movable right so basically we're going to repeat this pattern of this shape four times in a row so one two three four are gonna take the same shape and move it down a string so everything moves down the string I really gonna do that two times right now we're gonna go back to the first shape which is the same shape but on the first fire so so that's that shape on the first space two more times so we've got the shape on the first position four times down a swing two times back up a string two times now we're gonna move that same shape down two frets so rooting it on 7a just one time back to the second position one time back to the first position two times so we have one shape that we're moving around in three different spots it's like formula now to communicate this better it's better to use words that other musicians will understand so instead of saying one time around on one shape it's going to be 1 bar this is four beats usually music for beats you pull the bar so one and two and three and four and so one time around is going to be one bar so we have four bars of the first shape two bars of the second shape two bars of the first shape one bar of the third shape one bar of the second shape and two bars of the first shape now you can be infinitely creative with all these different things and we're going to start by replacing those last two bars with what's called a turnaround okay so I'm going to skip to the ninth bar of the song which is and then we usually have two more of the first shape right but it can get kind of boring if you repeat that too often so what we're gonna do is we're gonna replace the two bars the final two bars in the whole progression with what's called the turnaround and you can really do anything you want creatively with this bar but I'll give you a one right here so sounds like this okay now all I did is I want five years 2 times 4 a 5 a 6 a.m. 7 7 and then this cord right so this is a 7 chord I'm this is the e the 7th in the nation because it uses ISA I've got 7 a 67 G so the turnaround so I'm gonna do the whole thing and on the side we're going to count off how many of each one is going through so we have 4 bars of the first shape 1 2 3 4 down a string 1 2 up a string 3 4 4 more bars to go 1 of this shape 1 of this shape and then the turnaround which lasts 2 bars so a better way to communicate this instead of using first shape second shape third shape is by using numbers and the way we use numbers is where they are relative to the major scale right so we have 3 root notes with these shapes that happen on the fifth fret on the E string and the 5th fret on the a string and the 7th fret on the a string now since this is our main root note right here where we start we're gonna play the major scale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 so this would be 1 2 3 4 number 4 is where we routed the second shape and number 5 is where rooted the third shape so a better way to say it would be I'm going to play four bars of one the one chord the one kind of riff I'm going to play two bars of four and two bars of one then I'm going to have one bar of five one bar of four and two bars of one or the turnaround can replace the two bars of one now it doesn't have to be this pattern it can be anything it can be a single note you could play four bars of one note one two three and now to string I'm playing the four chord even though it's just being represented by a single note I'm still playing the four chord the fourth note however you want to look at it and then back up a string then to the 5/4 and then back to the one and again like I said before you can use this anywhere you can do it in G which is the third front of the E string just give me four bars of this G one do you play all four one - and then I have to go to the four chord which if G is 1 G ABC then I'd go to a C so then 2 bars to C one two back to G and now live away from Jiji ABCD go to the five go to the D so play the order one two one two so again this is really just the underlying framework of almost any blues song now it doesn't have to be twelve bars it's called the twelve bar blues it can be eight bars if you wanted it to be if you wanted to shorten the whole length of the entire thing one common way to do that would be take one bar of one right down to the four bar four and back to one and then go to the five four and the turnaround that would be an eight bar blues progression some are sixteen but as long as you know the underlying framework of how to organize these things you can do anything you don't always have to use the one before on the five you could use like the 1 the 3 and the 5 like I could just do like a bar of 1 2 & 3 okay right like 1 2 3 and the major scale really it again that's why this is every blues song because they all kind of follow this underlying framework and once you understand that you can start substituting things in and out and eventually your ear will get better this isn't just blues music like in pop music rock rock music metal country everything a lot of songs you'll notice will repeat something down a string and then repeats something else in a different area and that all kind of comes from the 12-bar blues so once you really understand how this works your ears going to develop and you're going to hear these changes in different songs and then you can use them to your own writing and be creative and just replace them with anything you want

Channel: Sean Daniel

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Id: mKWAQf0JsaQ

Length: 7min 52sec (472 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2016