Perhaps the best know blues singer in all the universe is B.B. King, who has been satisfying audiences worldwide with his vast talents on his famous guitar “Lucille” to accompany his soulful voice for more than half a century. B.B. King is also perhaps the most influential of all famous blues singers and all that [...]
Gertrude Pridgett or better recognized as Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was one of the many famous women blues singers. She was called “Mother of the Blue’s since she was the first true blues singer and one of the female singers that performed the blues in minstrel and vaudeville shows. She was the first female to record [...]
There are a number of Bluegrass music festivals currently planned all around America. Bluegrass is actually a type of music that incorporates elements of country, folk, jazz, and the blues, as it is played on a variety of acoustic stringed instruments. The genre has origins in and is influenced by Scottish and Irish folk music, [...]
Jazz blues is a musical style that combines both jazz and blues. Jazz, blues, and popular music all got their start in back rooms, clubs, honky-tonks, and in the underground or subculture environments. The histories of jazz, blues, and popular music are intertwined, and the styles often inspire each other. Today, both forms are closely [...]
In the 1920’s and 1930’s, blues guitar players like Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Lonnie Johnson were the influential performers of the day. They used a slide which was often made out of a knife blade or the broken or sawed off neck from a bottle. Most of the music was improvised, [...]
Looking to take your guitar playing to the next level? Are you down and want to use your guitar to let the world know what you’re feeling? Want to make your guitar wail?
You need to learn the BLUES. BB King, Eric Clapton and Jonny Lang were three of the best guitarists ever, and they were [...]
There are many scale that can be played on the guitar, but one of the most common ones and the first one I show all my students is the blues guitar scale. The reason I love this scale and teach it first even though the pentatonic is slightly easier and more widely used is because [...]
Blues music has inspired various styles of music such as, jazz, rock and roll, and country. Learning blues piano will help you learn these other styles of music very easily. This article will teach you everything you need to know to play blues piano.
The 12-bar blues is the most common progression for blues piano. Most [...]
Learning jazz guitar can be intimidating and overwhelming for a beginning student. Unlike styles like rock, blues, and classical, jazz guitar demands that a musician master a wide variety of skills, including jazz guitar scales.
If you are absolutely fresh on jazz guitar, the first thing you’ve got to wrap your fingers around is the major [...]
The exceptionally talented Jazz artist Freddie Redd has released him CD entitled Redds Blues. I am very confident and happy to announce that I believe Freddie Redd fans, and Jazz fans alike will be pleased with this one. With the release of Redds Blues Freddie Redd’s artistic excellence is on full display as Redd has [...]