LISTENING: FUNDAMENTALS

Twelve-bar Blues Progression NRBQ “Twelve Bar Blues”

Boogie Shuffle Robert Johnson “Sweet Home Chicago” Little Walter (Louis Myers, David Myers gtrs) “Mean Old World”

Boogie Shuffle: Open A and E Jimmy Reed: “High and Lonesome” Elmore James: “Dust My Broom”

Upbeats T-Bone Walker: “T-Bone Shuffle” Jimmy Reed: “Bright Lights, Big City”

Horn Riffs Albert King: “Overall Junction” B.B. King “Crying Won’t Help You”

Twelve-bar Variations Freddie King “Side Tracked” Little Junior Parker “Next Time You See Me”

Phrasing: Rhythm, Melody, and Resolution Albert Collins “The Freeze,” “Don’t Lose Your Cool” Wynonie Harris “Good Rockin’ Tonight” (sax solo) Joe Houston “All Night Long” (sax solo)

Visualization Bama “Levee Camp Holler” (Prison Songs Vol.1: Murderous Home)

Blue Notes: Blue Third Muddy Waters “Rollin’ Stone,” “Still a Fool”

Sliding Otis Rush “Groaning the Blues” Lightnin’ Hopkins “Automobile Blues” Guitar Slim “The Things That I Used to Do”

String Bending BB King “Every Day I Have the Blues” (Live at the Regal) Otis Rush “It Takes Time” Bobby Bland (Pat Hare, gtr) “Further Up the Road” Johnny “Guitar” Watson “Three Hours Past Midnight” “Blues at Sunrise” Albert King (releasing bends) “All Along the Watchtower” Hendrix (pre-bends)

Vibrato Finger vibrato (left-handed/upside-down) Otis Rush “All Your Love (I Miss Loving)” Albert King “Blues at Sunrise” Wrist vibrato BB King “Sweet Sixteen” Hendrix, Clapton