Lead Guitar Blues Power
September 29, 2009 by
Filed under blues juke joints
If you want to learn how to play the guitar then you need to look at learning the systems of the blues guitar with a blues guitar lesson or two.
Learn Blues Guitar For Beginners
The thing is that the blues is regarded the base of all music. From its humble beginnings apparently back in Africa, the sounds of the blues were sung out by the plantation workers ( at first slaves ) who lived in the Mississippi Delta. At night these sounds were translated on stage by a number of great blues musicians included some prominent guitarists. These night time jaunts took place at the’juke joints’ that were once the mainstay of nightly entertainment for these plantation employees all across the state of Mississippi. In fact road 61 is commonly known as the blues road as it runs from the jazz point of the blues in New Orleans, all of the way up to Memphis, which is the basis home of the blues. The blues route does however continue on to Chicago as the biggest city which has a blues flavor.
Blues guitar has an elemental influence on the structure of all modern music you hear today and this is why blues guitar lessons are significant to understand the foundation of this great music and bring out the notes, scales and modes in your own playing. With a knowledge of the blues you will have a great information of how music is made and you will be able to take your playing to a whole new level. If it wasn’t for the blues, Elvis wouldn’t have made his break in to popular culture, John Lennon wouldn’t have picked up the guitar and the face of world music would be completely different to how it is today.