The goal in these types of lessons are to incorporate a new style into your own musical vocabulary. Stevie Ray tunes a half step down, just like many blues players do. But to simplify, we'll play in standard tuning in the key of Eb.
This part is in the style of Robben Ford, and will prepare you for a virtual band situation. Playing with an hammond player, you have to create a complementary guitar parts that will melt with the other instruments, with out interfering with the piano/key part.
A slow modern blues, similar to styles of Gary Moore, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. In this lesson I combined the following techniques: bend, bend/release, slide, hammer-on, pull-off and vibrato. It is in A Minor key with some additions of F9 and E9+ chords.
Hendrix, SRV and Clapton! The most important thing, is the FEEL for the blues - not the technique. I suggest you examine the videos before you go to the GP tab, to see the way we will accent the strings.
The most important thing here is the feel. Practice a little, and then start focusing on the feeling of the blues to get the sound right. If you are true with your feelings the sound will be true as well.
This music is a combination of rock and blues with Latino American rhythms. One of the most important Latin rock musicians is Carlos Santana. This Mexican musician and guitarist started in the 60's doing a combination of blues guitar with Latin percussion.
Here we have some of the finest, classic blues licks from one of greatest bluesman in the world. The one and only Mr. B.B.King. Phrasing of this man is legendary, and you can really hear his soul and heart in his playing and singing.
An open tuning is where the strings are intentionally tuned to achieve a chord with all the open strings played together.
The open G tuning is also used with the bottleneck because it's easy to play these major chords with the slide technique.
High-Gain blues, typical to players like Gary Moore, maybe Satch and even Andy Timons! So, it's in key of C minor, lots of bends, few double stops, hard picking etc.
A standard blues lick on the acoustic guitar. The beat is 4\4 and the chords are based on E7 A7 B7. It's not a difficult one and it's fun. I think this is a good start if you are new to blues music. If you want to improvise on it, the E pentatonic with the blue note( a# ) will do just fine.