Blue Christmas Song

Blues Lesson, by Piotr Kaczor
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Piotr Kaczor
			
			CHRISTMAS LESSON. 
		
			A Christmas lesson in the blues style, based on an old Polish Christmas carol.		
Tags : christmas, blues, Poland, bending, vibrato

Hello mates! Piotr here. Welcome to my Christmas lesson in the blues style. This time I decided to remodel the old Polish Christmas carol in the Texas blues style, so it sounds a little like SRV.

The melody is pretty simple and easy to memorize. Beginners can have a bit of a problem with the intro and ending of the song, because of hard bendings and pretty fast picking, but I hope that you
won't have any bigger troubles.

We are going to use:

-bendings
-vibrato
-alternate and SRV-like picking :)

I used mostly G major scale and blues pentatonic scale.

chord progression:
G-----C, D, G, Em, C, D, G, G7, C, D, G, Em, C, D, G-----G

key: G
tempo: 140bpm
time signature: 4/4

This is the preset I used for the POD XT live for this lesson:

Amp: 1958 Tweed B-Man Drive 8 - Bass 8 - Middle 9 - Treble 6 - Presence 2
Cab: 4x10 2001 Line 6
Com: Threshold 30 - Gain 5
Stp: Classic Distortion
Rev: Standard Spring - 32%

The lesson is available in the guitar pro 5 file, mp3 backing tracks included.

Enjoy!

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Piotr
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