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Every Day I Have the Blues . . . Hallelujah! Playing Blues Guitar Blues Guitar by Jon Chappell Blues Guitar For Dummies® Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, www.wiley.com Copyright © 2020 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020931515 ISBN 978-1-119-69563-9 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-74895-3 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-74896-0 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents at a Glance Contents at a Glance Introduction . 1 Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues . 7 CHAPTER 1: Every Day I Have the Blues . Hallelujah! . 9 CHAPTER 2: Blues Meets Guitar: A Match Made in Musical Heaven . 23 CHAPTER 3: Grab Hold, Tune Up, Play On! . 39 Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues . 55 CHAPTER 4: Getting a Grip on Left-Hand Chords . 57 CHAPTER 5: Positioning the Right Hand for Rhythm and Lead . 71 CHAPTER 6: Blues Progressions, Song Forms, and Moves . 95 CHAPTER 7: Musical Riffs: Bedrock of the Blues . 119 Part 3: Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro . 135 CHAPTER 8: Playing Lead: Soaring Melodies and Searing Solos . .. 137 CHAPTER 9: Playing Up the Neck . 153 CHAPTER 10: Express Yourself: Making the Guitar Sing, Cry, and Wail . 171 Part 4: Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages . .. 191 CHAPTER 11: Acoustic Roots: Delta Blues and Its Country Cousins . 193 CHAPTER 12: The Birth and Growth of Classic Electric Blues . 213 CHAPTER 13: Blues Rock: The Infusion of Ol’ Rock ’n’ Roll . 233 Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal . 253 CHAPTER 14: Shop Till You Drop: Buying the Right Guitar for You . 255 CHAPTER 15: Choosing Your Amp and Effects . .. 269 CHAPTER 16: Changing Strings . 303 Part 6: The Part of Tens . 319 CHAPTER 17: Ten Blues Guitar Giants . 321 CHAPTER 18: Ten Great Blues Guitars . 325 CHAPTER 19: Ten (Plus One) Must-Have Blues Guitar Albums . 329 Part 7: Appendixes . 333 APPENDIX A: How to Read Music . 335 APPENDIX B: How to Use the Website . 343 Index . 351 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . 1 About This Book . 1 Conventions Used in This Book . 2 What You’re Not to Read . 3 Foolish Assumptions . .. 3 How This Book Is Organized . 4 Part 1: You Got a Right to Play the Blues . 4 Part 2: Setting Up to Play the Blues . 4 Part 3: Beyond the Basics: Playing Like a Pro . 4 Part 4: Sounding Like the Masters: Blues Styles through the Ages . 4 Part 5: Gearing Up: Outfitting Your Arsenal . 5 Part 6: The Part of Tens . 5 Part 7: Appendixes . 5 Icons Used in This Book . 5 Where to Go from Here . 6 PART 1: YOU GOT A RIGHT TO PLAY THE BLUES . 7 CHAPTER 1: Every Day I Have the Blues . Hallelujah! . 9 Capturing the Blues Train from Its Departure Then to Its Arrival Now . 10 The pieces of blues that made the genre . 10 The place of the blues’ conception . 11 Rejoicing over 100 years of blues: The shifting shape of the genre . 11 The qualities that made blues cats hit the big-time . 12 It’s Not All Pain and Suffering — The Lighter Side of Blues . 13 Surveying the Means to Make the Music: The Guitar in All Its Glory . 14 The low-fi acoustic guitar . 14 The semi-hollowbody electric guitar . 15 Solidbody electric guitars . 15 The Collision of Two Worlds: Acoustic versus Electric . 16 Getting a Grip on How Guitars Work . 17 You’ve gotta use your hands — both of them . 17 Producing the tones: String vibration and pitch . 18 Electric guitars only: Pickups and amplification . 18 Table of Contents vii Performing and Looking Like a Blues Player . 19 Expanding and filling your brain with know-how . 19 Looking the part . .20 Blues Trivia For Dummies . 21 The questions . 21 The answers . 22 CHAPTER 2: Blues Meets Guitar: A Match Made in Musical Heaven . 23 Beyond the Delta: Defining the Blues Guitar Sound . 24 The method to the music: Chord progressions . 25 The guitarist’s language of melody . 25 The expression that invokes your senses . 26 The groove that sets the pace . 27 Dissecting an Acoustic and an Electric . 27 Getting Down with the Blues: A Quick How-To . 31 The foundation for all guitar playing: Acoustic guitars . 31 Shifting acoustic to overdrive: Electric guitars . 32 What You Need to Get Your Groove On . 35 CHAPTER 3: Grab Hold, Tune Up, Play On! . 39 Holding Your Axe (That Is, Your Guitar) . 39 Grabbing your guitar’s neck . .. 40 Pushing down on the strings . 41 Getting sound to come out . 42 Holding the Pick, Attacking the Problem . 44 Getting Situated . 45 Sitting down . 46 . or standing up . 46 Tuning Up . 47 Helping your guitar get in tune with itself . 48 Holding your guitar to an electronic standard . 49 Playing a Chord . 50 Music Notation: Not Just for Geeks . 51 Guidance for your aimless fingers: A chord diagram . 52 Mapping out your short-term path: Rhythm notation . .. 53 Guiding you all the way through a song: Tablature . 54 PART 2: SETTING UP TO PLAY THE BLUES . 55 CHAPTER 4: Getting a Grip on Left-Hand Chords . 57 Starting Out Simple: Blues Chords Even Your Mom Could Play . 58 Going to the Next Level: Barre Chords . 59 Forming a barre chord . 61 Naming barre chords . 62 viii Blues Guitar For Dummies Playing E-based barre chords . 63 Playing A-form barre chords . 65 Combining forms . 67 Taking Advantage of Versatile Power Chords . 68 CHAPTER 5: Positioning the Right Hand for Rhythm and Lead . 71 Strumming Along . 71 Stroking down . 72 . And stroking up . 72 Combining down and up . 73 Striking to a beat . 73 Eighth-note striking, twice per beat . 74 Mixing Single Notes and Strumming . 75 Separating bass and treble: The pick-strum . 75 Playing common pick-strum patterns . 76 Shuffling the Beats with Syncopated Strumming . 78 A bit of notation: Dots that extend and ties that bind . 79 Syncopation: Playing with dots and ties . .. 80 Stopping the String Ringing (Just for a Sec) . 81 Muting the sound between two chords (left hand) . 81 Simulating syncopation with left-hand muting . 81 Muting the sound of a note (right hand) . 82 Copying the Classics: Plucking Fingerstyle Blues . 83 The Right Hand’s Bliss: Different Rhythm Styles to Play . 84 The shuffle groove . 85 The driving straight-four . 87 The slow 12/8, with groups of three . 89 The two-beat feel . 91 The slow and funky 16 feel . 92 CHAPTER 6: Blues Progressions, Song Forms, and Moves . 95 Blues by the Numbers . 95 Recognizing the Big Dogs: Primary Key Families and Their Chords . .. 96 The Structure of a Blues Song, Baby . 97 Playing.
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