On blues guitar licks: Learning Blues Guitar From The GreatsBy Ricky Sharples If you enjoy listening to blues music you might want to learn about the early blues guitarists who laid the foundation for the popularity of modern blues music. The works of many blues artists are now available as tabs, and with a reasonable amount of daily practice you will soon be able to play blues music by the likes of Robert Johnson, B.B. King and Eric Clapton. Searching the internet for blues tabs is going to yield an abundance of lessons in playing the blues as well as tabs for traditional blues music by artists and composers of the early twentieth century. I should mention that many songs defy efforts to trace their origins but have been popular songs since the before the birth of the blues as we know it. So let us take a look at some blues players who were influential in shaping blues music into a popular idiom. You cannot begin to learn to play blues without listening to the great artists of the past with an enlightened ear. In other words, you will need to do more than simply appreciate the music on an emotional level - you need to know a little about what you are listening to. So here is a quick guide to a couple of the key words in the blues dictionary. Groups of notes used as material for solos are known as "licks". They may be scales or arpeggios or random notes but all blues guitarists have a collection of licks that they can throw into a solo or use as a basis for improvisation. Another word you will need to know is "riff". A riff is a pattern of notes which is repeated throughout a song. The use of riffs was very popular in the '60's and many people will recognize a song more from hearing the riff than listening to the lyrics. Mississippi John Hurt came to fame ______continued. Interesting article on blues guitar licks: Summertime Blues & Your Guitar continued______
as an old man appearing at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963. With his vocal and playing skills still as bright and shiny as ever, he made many recordings of traditional blues songs during the 1960's. But John Hurt was a prolific blues recording artist in his youth, and his recording sessions in the 1920's brought to light such blues standards as Frankie And Johnny and Stagger Lee.
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