I Love Blues Guitar

Baby Please Don’t Go – Blues Guitar Lessons

This is a great lesson to get into the feel and cool style of Lightnin’s music. It’s not too advanced, but highlights some of his tricks that can be integrated with all your blues in E.

Hopkins way of playing blues guitar was super cool – laid back and very atmospheric.

When first learning how play guitar, we would all kill to have that sound, but it doesn’t come from technique only.

Blues is a musical genre known as the folklore of African-American musicians. Its origins are associated with the southern states of the USA, that is the region conventionally called the “deep south”. The very name of the genre (sadness, despair) is related to its nostalgic form, also in the textual layer. Blues pieces touch male-female relationships as well as feelings and emotions (love, loneliness, faithfulness, jealousy). However, blues performers often sing about freedom, work and travel. The songs also feature social criticism relating mainly to racial inequality and political issues.

Many artists are inspired by blues music and combine it with other styles. In this way, such musical mergers as punk blues, soul blues or blues rock. The popularity of this genre in the USA has led to the emergence of regional varieties, such as Louisiana, New Orleans, Texas and Detroit blues. There are also factions characteristic of other countries – British blues and African blues.

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