Blues Chords & Lessons: The Blues Guitar Of Broonzy & McGhee
What you'll learn
- Play the acoustic blues chords and play the guitar picking styles of Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee.
- You will learn to play Glory Of Love by Big Bill Broonzy
- You will learn to play Hey Hey by Big Bill Broonzy
- You will learn to play Key To The Highway by Big Bill Broonzy
- You will learn how to play Living With The Blues by Brownie McGhee
- You will learn to play Worryin You Off My Mind by Big Bill Broonzy
Requirements
- You should be an intermediate acoustic guitar player, with some experience of finger picking guitar in any style.
- Be familiar with basic blues chords
Description
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:
- How to finger pick acoustic blues guitar in the distinctive swing style.
- Palm damping techniques to ensure that the sound is 'tight'!
- The chord structure of swing blues in the keys of E, A and C
- 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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Who this course is for:
- If you already play some acoustic blues guitar and want to learn more blues chords and their use, then this course is for you.
Instructor
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Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons In The Old Style
Acoustic blues guitar teacher Jim Bruce was voted Number 2 top guitar instructor on Truefire in 2013 (Number 1 for acoustic blues lessons). Jim still plays blues guitar on the street in Europe and also gives concerts - plus teaching old style finger picking wherever he goes!
Now online students can benefit from over 40 years of real experience playing blues guitar in the authentic way. If you want to play real blues guitar just like the old blues men, then is where you come to find out how. Keep it real with Jim Bruce and play blues guitar like it was originally played using these state-of-the-art acoustic guitar lessons.
A word from Jim - " My playing career goes way back, to the folk clubs on the UK in the sixties, clubs pubs and bars in six countries, and on the city streets of Europe. This is how I learned my trade.
One day someone asked me to slow down a lick to show them exactly what I was doing with my hands. As I tried to do this, I found that I was doing much, much more than I realized. It was these tiny hand movements that make acoustic blues so exciting when it's performed properly. This is the main focus of my lessons - to show students exactly how to play blues guitar in great detail. "
Peace, Jim Bruce
Jim's blues guitar lessons online on Udemy follow a well proven and award-winning formula guaranteed to have you playing the blues in the shortest time possible. Learn blues guitar with a pro and sign up now!