Blues Chords & Lessons: The Blues Guitar Of Broonzy & McGhee

About Blues Chords & Lessons: The Blues Guitar Of Broonzy & McGhee

How Brownie McGhee and Big Bill Broonzy Used

Swing Blues Guitar Chords

Guitar

lessons

cover many genres inside this

musical form of the blues

. Blues guitar developed from the

African-American

community & can be sad in the

Delta

style from the

deep South

, or happy in the

Piedmont

ragtime guitar style of playing which is evident in all forms of modern

jazz, rhythm & blues

. Between the two there are a group of acoustic blues guitar players who used many standard

chord progressions

to play with a definite swing, sill using

blues notes

, but a step up from the standard

twelve bar blues.

_Learn Acoustic Blues Guitar_ _In The Old Style_ Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee are two great examples of blues men who excelled at adapting

traditional blues verses

, using

shuffles, walking basses

and all the usual tricks but giving it that certain

'groove'

;

almost like rock and roll

. The five lessons in this course take a look at just one of McGhee's songs - Livin With The Blues, and four of Broonzy's. _Guitar Lessons - Learning Blues The Right Way_ If you can play one of Brownie's acoustic blues songs, you can just about play them all! Both men were

country blues

singers originally, further developing what was basically the music of Africa evolving through

field hollers

and

spirituals

, particularly after the

ending of slavery

. Their swinging style of blues became a firm favorite in

juke joints,

together with

Delta blues

and the appealing

Piedmont

(ragtime blues.) What You Will Learn in these

acoustic guitar lessons

: 1. How to finger pick

acoustic blues guitar

in the distinctive swing style. 2. Palm damping techniques to ensure that the sound is 'tight'! 3. The chord structure of swing blues in the keys of E, A and C 4. How to reproduce that elusive 'old

blues guitar

' feeling. Broonzy's style was much broader and we take a look at several of his songs in some detail. Both men use a fingerpicking style called 'monotonic bass', which means that the thumb strikes just one bass guitar string every beat, instead of alternating between two or three strings. It's less complicated than alternating bass

fingerstyle blues

, but that's not to say the guitar sound produced isn't as rich or musical. Both men were very inventive in their treatment of the blues, and the bass action helped drive the music forward in a very definite and unique way. Each lesson is between 20 mins and 30 mins long and provides everything you need to play the songs presented, including slow close up demos of both hands, tips on singing and printable

guitar tab

files.

Acoustic blues lessons

in the swing style just got easy -

learn blues guitar now

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