Texas Blues Lesson
Texas blues have very characteristic groove and vibe. These exercises require knowing of 12-bar blues chord progression as well as some strumming techniques and basic solo/scale skills. Also, these are based on open E blues or E dominant blues in open position.
Basically, to get into the style quickly follow these steps/techniques:
Texas blues signature can be very well recognized in style of: Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, ZZ Top, ...
PDFs:
Texas Blues - Exercise 1
Texas Blues - Exercise 2
Texas Blues - Exercise 3
Basically, to get into the style quickly follow these steps/techniques:
- Follow 12-bar blues chord progression
- Play one bar of soloing
- Soloing bar is followed by another bar of strumming technique
Texas blues signature can be very well recognized in style of: Freddie King, T-Bone Walker, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, ZZ Top, ...
PDFs:
Texas Blues - Exercise 1
Texas Blues - Exercise 2
Texas Blues - Exercise 3
Exercise #1:
Exercise #2:
Exercise #3: