Jump blues guitar book

It has a jazzy, saxophone or brass instruments sound, driving rhythms and shouted vocals. Here, we have five licks in the style of a true pioneer of the guitar and a bastion of blues the unsung genius lonnie. Keith wyatt has developed a rich library with hundreds of online blues guitar lessons. Good rockin guitar is loaded with 20 definitive jump blues solo lessons.

The one book i bought to get me started was by blues guitar by richard daniels. Play authentic blues rhythm and lead guitar like the pros. Although you can cherry pick licks, riffs, grooves, chord progressions and other elements from this course, this method gives you more. Example 4 is in the swing and jump blues guitar e book weve added a little bass line to the riff and expanded it with a new position. Best is completely subjective, but among current performers and in no particular order, some of my favorites include little charlie baty, kid ramos, igor prado, alex schultz, kid andersen, junior watson, john markowski, dave gross, and duke ro. I have yet find any book that is really could teaching the blues. Sections of this book describe the styles these bands play, along with chicago blues elements, which have been a major influence on swing. Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. Once i absorbed that fundemental knowledge by memorising all the positions and play them fluidly,i would jam along to all my favourite blues cds and try to fit those chords and scales ontowhat i was playing along to. Biographical anthology of the jump blues electric guitar style including major figures of rhythm and blues history, collecting more 100 guitarists from charlie christian to the 70s young west coast and europe revivalists. I was also lucky enough to perform and tour with southern californias most influential blues artists. It was a good book for a total novice because it really explained the basic struture of what blues is on guitar. Join facebook to connect with johnny cat soubrand and others you may know. The blues had a baby and they named it rock n roll.

This songbook provides a nice spoonful of blues by artists from the fifties chuck berry and elvis, the sixties cream, the seventies zz top, acdc, led zeppelin and deep purple, the eighties stevie ray vaughan and the. Blues guitar can be a fun genre to dig into for any player looking to get into the bluesy side of the instrument. Get the guaranteed best price on guitar instruction dvds like the hal leonard jump blues instructional guitar 2dvd pack featuring matt brandt at musicians friend. Many a jump instrumental and vocal jive tune started with this progression. Blues songbook just like the muddy waters song said. Hello friends, this week we are starting a new set of lessons the defines jump music by examining i got rhythm and the many variations of its progression and how it became the most important progression along with the blues for creating simple swinging, jumping tunes. In 1920, mamie smith was the first african american to record blues music. Swing and jumpblues guitar scale music chord music scribd. List of books and articles about blues music online. Roomful of blues, according to the chicago suntimes, swagger, sway and swing with energy and precision. During prohibition, musicians played the urban blues in honky tonks, bars that illegally served alcohol. Inner logic as with tritone intervals, there is an inner logic to playing third intervals over these chords. This course covers the stylings and techniques of some of the greatest jump blues guitarists.

This is a monthly subscription going through, and explaining mickey bakers complete course in jazz guitar. There is a lot of soloing and filling involved, great grooves, funky chords and a steady, though challenging, chord progressions associated with the genre. Jump blues method and solos for jump blues guitar 2dvd. As more blacks were moving to urban areas like chicago, the urban blues genre was born.

Roomful of blues is an american blues and swing revival big band based in rhode island. This 2dvd set is presented as a methodology covering theory, comping, accompanist riffs, horn lines arranged for guitar, and several approaches for soloing drilling down on many approaches for opening up the neck for the scales, arps and riffs that are employed in swing and jump blues guitar. This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. Jump blues guitar lesson matthieu brandt blues 1 youtube. So in this tutorial were gonna look at some very useful strumming patterns that youre gonna use again and again when you play the blues. Realize your dream of becoming a great blues guitarist with alfreds learn to play blues guitar the simple, straightforward, and effective way to learn the. Mel bay a very thorough study of blues bass lines covering many different blues styles from texas swing to jazz and rock blues. With a recording career that spans over 50 years, they have toured worldwide and recorded many albums. Hal leonard jump blues instructional guitar 2dvd pack. I have an immense respect for rhythm and blues early electric guitarists in the 40s. Jump blues is an uptempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments.

Jump blues refers to an uptempo, jazztinged style of blues that first came to prominence in the mid to late 40s. High quality video lessons, with tab, standard notation and exclusive backing tracks. This jump blues guitar set of 2 lesson discs in one case is an illuminating one and should give. Once i absorbed that fundemental knowledge by memorising all the positions and play them fluidly,i. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. This book has been the mystical guide for blues guitarists. Since 1967, the groups blend of swing, rock and roll, jump blues, boogie. Full course w all videos, tab, jams matthieu brandt. This is a complete and comprehensive website ebook learning method, to learn how to solo and play backup in these danceable blues styles. The jump to a7 in the 8th bar starts a 5th intervals trip back to the tonic, which in general works well with dominant chords. Our course of online blues guitar lessons is unlike any other. Pinetop smith wrote the first hit boogiewoogie in 1929.

The music would eventually be covered, gentrified, and absorbed by other genres long before miles davis affixed the flickering embers of jazz to wailing electric guitar lines in a tribute to jack johnson, and the albums outtakes. The typical jump blues song had a simpler beat than most swing jazz, usually with guitar relegated to rhythm and solos provided by a saxophone. Jump blues simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Boogiewoogie is a piano style that became popular in the late 1920s. This is a complete and comprehensive websiteebook learning method, to learn how to solo and. Although guitar players played mostly rhythm in those days.

Youll be learning key licks by tiny grimes, tbone walker, bill jennings, charlie christian, clarence gatemouth brown, pee wee crayton and modern players such as hollywood. It explained the use of the pentatonic scales and chords and how to mix them up. Really great book for any blues guitar player needing to find some bass lines to lay down as well. Learn different 12 bar blues chord progressions in various keys and with various degrees of complexity. Mel bay this fine text presents ten fabulous stefan grossman fingerstyle blues solos in notation and tablature.

The guitarists music theory book the most useful guitar music theory book by. Realize your dream of becoming a great blues guitarist with alfreds learn to play blues guitar the simple. Its important to have a solid vocabulary of chords, riffs and left hand tricks, but its just as important to have a strong rhythmic feel and some good right hand chops. The iv and v position that weve used up the neck can also be found a lot closer. Rhythmically, the style is closer to rock and roll than either of these foundational genres, with a strong backbeat groove, but theres more to playing jump blues than minor pentatonic riffing. Keith wyatt online blues guitar lessons artistworks. Its also called eight to the bar because the left hand always uses a pattern of eight 8th notes in every bar.

Blues progressions in major and minor guitar chord. Before we dive into the theory behind each of the 6 jazz blues progressions in this lesson, here are some characteristics of the blues most blues chord progressions are 12 bars long, although there are also 8, 14, 16, 24 or more bar blues changes. Jump blues burned brightest from the late 1940s through the mid 1950s. An uptempo hybrid of blues and bebop jazz, jump blues directly preceded the rock and roll explosion of the 1950s. Leigh fuge of mgr music works through 10 easy blues guitar licks for beginners that can be quickly worked into a practice routine. The music would eventually be covered, gentrified, and absorbed by other genres long before miles davis affixed the flickering embers of jazz to wailing electric guitar lines in a tribute to jack johnson, and the albums outtakes, among other jazzrock material. Full course of blues guitar lessons absolute blues guitar. I was at the national guitar workshop one week back in the 90s when someone attached my name to a course listing on a bulletin board. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival. Jump blues is a style that originated in the big bands of the late 40s and early 50s.