Blues Or Country?! |
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Blues Or Country?! |
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Sep 11 2008, 05:39 PM |
Hey man,
I haven't heard about that guy, but I can imagine how he must sounds. Country, rock and blues are all interconnected, and today if you wanna play any of these three styles, I would say that you it would be probably best to rely on some classic stuff, because back in the days, these types of music were more separate. Today they are forming a rather complicated fusion. When people wanna play certain types of music,they mostly play certain licks, progressions and melodies that are often played in those types of music. So for example if I would have to play country style, I would play mostly country style strumming and licks, if playing blues style, I would play blues I IV V and blues licks, applying blue notes etc.. This is a classical approach, you can always make a small fusion in order to part sound more interesting. For example replace the turnaround in blues with other chords like VII m7b5 (former V) VII mb7b5 (Former IV) I maj7. All these styles are pretty wide tho, specially rock, so you can make it sound like a lot of different stuff. In order to do that, think how rock is different from blues, and listen to some classic tunes. Rock developed from blues, buy transgressing the I IV V chords to a whole bunch of different progressions, and changing keys as well. In rock you can change keys, use a whole bunch of licks, involving strictly minor or major if you want, depending how you want it to sound and the type of a song your doing. If you're doing ballad, you can use all minor chords, with no dominants and no I VI V and it will not sound to bluesy or country at all. I'm not much of an expert for country music, but in country type of progression, there are mostly major type chords, and licks can involve double stops, slides, and specific strumming. In blues you can do the shuffle, blues note licks, and in rock just anything that rocks really, add a bit distortion and pull off some power chords, bending licks, and fast legato runs and it will sound like rock. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Sep 11 2008, 05:40 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Sep 20 2008, 12:24 AM |
Yes it's a standard kind of thing. In blues it is very common to mix both minor and major scales pentatonics in general. Only true master can do it, and one of them is BB King. He mix them seamlessly.
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Sep 24 2008, 01:17 PM |
Well, yeah, major pentatonic does sound happier, and it gives a totally different feel from minor pentatonic.
Regarding chord progression, in blues and blues-based rock (such as ACDC), you can use a root chord as a major one, and do a I VI V regular blues progression. You can record that kind of a progression, for example from A (A-D-E), and try to improvise the same licks but on different positions in Aminor pentatonic and Amajor pentatonic. The more you use both of these scales, the more it will become clearer how to mix them, and it is a very fun exercise, you can practice and jamm along with it. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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