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34 responses so far ↓
1 JKSuccess // Jun 22, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I’ve always wanted to learn how to jam with my friends but I get lost.
Also I don’t know any riffs.
2 roaddoc // Jun 22, 2006 at 1:59 pm
hey andrew/
i’ve always liked listening to the blues how it made me feel so i would love to learn how to play the blues.
thanks
jim
3 socket101 // Jun 22, 2006 at 2:52 pm
I want to learn to play the blues because it is the music that resonates with me, moves me , I love it!
4 Grant // Jun 22, 2006 at 2:58 pm
I’ve been playing for several years, but am still a beginner when it comes to being able to follow frineds…I’ve always loved the blues and figured that it would be a good start as it’s the basis of all that’s out there as far as I’m concerned.
5 jonok // Jun 22, 2006 at 3:00 pm
The blues is story telling to music and I simply want to express myself, my stories, thoughts, and feelings through my music. Learning to play the blues will allow me to achieve this!
6 emanz // Jun 22, 2006 at 3:08 pm
The biggest reason is to learn how to improvise. and lets face it the blues is cool and when someone skilled plays them its just amazing. Think B.B.King on “the thrill is gone” and Jimi Hendrix’s “villanova junction” or S.R.V. on “Texas Flood”. Those tracks blew me away now i wanna blow some people away with me skill. thats why i wanna learn to play the blues.
7 corkywillis // Jun 22, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Because the music keeps going round and round in my head and I just gotta get it out before it drives me CRAZY!
8 Cookie // Jun 22, 2006 at 3:39 pm
I’ve always wanted to play blues to expand my musical horizons (lol sounds deep). Basically, I don’t like it when people are so narrow-minded and fixated on one style they listen to and play onyl that (eg Metal) instead of just music. There are so many techniques and things learned from different styles (eg classical – arpeggios and sweeps, chant – harmony and emlody etc.) and blues is no exception. It is also highly emotive music and doesnt need blazing speed to sound great.
9 dont_50 // Jun 22, 2006 at 4:08 pm
I was fortunate enough while living in Kentucky to see Buddy Guy play in a small club in Lexington. I have never been the same since. I have seen hime twice since here in New Zealand and would love to be able to find the notes he plays. I have also seen Eric Clapton and love the easy style he uses.
10 revernie // Jun 22, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I want to learn to play the blues because of the way it makes me feel when I hear some really good blues tunes. Players like Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Healey, to name a few, make you feel as if someone out there knows what you are going through. Whether it’s good feelings or sorrowful feelings, they connect with you through their music and touch your soul. It’s a spiritual thing I guess. That’s what I want to learn to do, express what I’m hearing and feeling inside, and have it touch peoples lives.
11 SatoshiS // Jun 22, 2006 at 5:30 pm
I’ve been trying for a year already, but I still haven’t been able to express anything through my guitar. Also, lately it’s been hard to be original, but I was thinking that if I could go to the root of all of rock and roll, I might be able to find the one thing that’ll make my music sound the way that I want it to sound.
12 socket101 // Jun 22, 2006 at 5:49 pm
I would like to learn to play the blues because it is the music that resonates with me, moves me, I love it!
13 lespaul1649 // Jun 22, 2006 at 5:50 pm
the reason? well, the blues is music that comes from the soul. not just from love, not really just to make a polictical statment. it’s just you and your guitar melding together to express your feelings. i grew up during
the british invasion era. i listened to groups like the yardbirds, the animals,
john mayal. now while their hits were fine, i was more into their blues
backround. (so were they really) then came the magic day i got to see
some film archives of the old masters, mr.johnson,wille dixon, big boy, etc
that sealed it for me!! just watching the man sit down with some old beat-up box guitar and hear the stories, hear the pain just touched me. and thou im like that actor in crossroads, a white boy, with a good life,who could never be a true bluesman, the music still gets in my soul. even hearing the first bar of ry cooders southern comfort soundtrack make me
go grab my guitar. thats why i want to learn to play the blues. or the best
that this white boy can do.
14 Andrew Koblick // Jun 22, 2006 at 6:13 pm
These comments are great! Keep em coming!
I am glad everyone is sharing their thoughts.
15 msguitar // Jun 22, 2006 at 6:45 pm
i have learned a little blues and the more i learn the more it makes me wont to learn, because it has more then just the song, its also a way of expressing a feeling and you just play your feeling, i think that it has the best way of giving over a message in a song, also when ever i jam its the type you can just go on and on with, the slow parts and then fast and slow with the twelve bar blues and i just really love it
16 taseal // Jun 22, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I absolutely love the blues. Being born and raised in the south it actually becomes part of your inner being as it attempts to express the very inner soul of ones’ being. Its the soulful feeling and sound that only blues can express when words simply cannot do. This is why, with your assistance that I hope to be able to one day express myself through this music.
17 taseal // Jun 22, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Andrew,
I want to learn to play the blues because its the one true music style that resonates from ones very inner soul, where the sound itself expresses feelings that words cannot do. Having been born and raised it the south its one of those traditions passed down that you cannot express verbally, but it still yearns to be heard. This is why, with your help, I hope to be able to learn to play this style of music.
Ted
18 dillf // Jun 22, 2006 at 8:03 pm
I LOVE BLUES and want to play like Stevie Ray Vaughan too badly!!!
19 eztolm8 // Jun 22, 2006 at 10:56 pm
The reason why I want to play the blues: It is another musical path to follow. To be a true guitarist you must be able to play in all styles of music. Learning to play the blues will help in my journey to being a true master of the guitar.
20 clauderich // Jun 23, 2006 at 9:28 am
The only way I can explain it is that the Blues beckon to me.There is a primal feeling inside me that longs to express itself through this musical style.
21 fredpride // Jun 23, 2006 at 1:16 pm
A 3 AND A HALF BARS, THEN A BIT OF A7
D7 FOR A BIT THEN BACK TO A7
A BAR OF E7, THEN HIT THE D7 THEN THE A7
(YOU KNOW THE STUFF, SEE ANDREWS LESSONS)
OK NOW THE LYRICS
Well I get up in the mornin, look for ma shoes
Well I get up in the morning, look for my shoes
read three mails for andrew K, man……….
takes away my lonesome aint got no e m – mail…….
Bloooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzz
Fred -gimme the prize Andrew
i read all your mails and never delete any
thats why i had to buy another 160 gig hard drive
LESSON NOTES – ALL BLUES SONGS GOTTA INVOLVE
A SEARCH FOR SHOES
BANJOfRED
22 D.Max G. // Jun 23, 2006 at 2:07 pm
I am so sick of plinky, weenie “shredders” w/digital pseudo-tone, that I am trying to renew interest in the old guys that can actually play music with real feeling.
I don’t really care for the “style” particularly, or any style for that matter. I just appreciate the old dudes that can play organic music with convincing expression.
23 clauderich // Jun 24, 2006 at 4:46 am
It’s as if the Blues call to me. There’s a primal feeling inside me that longs to express itself trough this musical medium.
clauderich
24 lemonwolf // Jun 25, 2006 at 2:08 am
Why do I want to play the blues?
I’ll tell you man it lights my fuse
Piedmont, Delta, Chicago, Kansas City
Sweet, sweet sounds that are oh so pretty
So why do I want to play the blues?
Cause the blues is news you can really use.
25 tommywart // Jun 26, 2006 at 4:20 am
No matter the style, the blues is the heart of the matter — and I want to cut to the heart.
26 JohnR242 // Jun 28, 2006 at 9:45 am
Having been disabled for the past 4 years after two painful back operations for burst discs. I am grateful that at least I can still pick up the guitar and play. Even though I do struggle to get the music to sound right, it does keep me from going crazy. I’m unable to drive anymore due to nerve damage in my right leg; but I can still work a volume pedel and various other effects pedals that I have built myself with my left foot. Learning to play the blues really well is a current goal of mine. I can fiddle around with it and get some riffs down; but it would really be great to be able to play along with Eric Clapton, B.B King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and the like with my CD player feed into my Line 6 AX2. What a blast that would be!!
27 bluesax // Jun 28, 2006 at 9:53 am
Why?
My daddy was born in 1904 in Port Gibsom, MS, home of Jelly Jaw Short and stompin grounds of Big Jow Williams. The first record album I remember seeing had the prettiest woman (next to my mother) on the cover with the name Lightnin Hopkins over her head. The first live music I heard was played by my Pops, my cousin Jack, Uncle Bob and some dudes I still don’t know, in the living room of our house. I was 5 and the tunes were shuffles.
Besides all that:
My baby went ridin on an Amtrak yesterday.
She left me a letter, didn’t have a thing to say.
I’m the fool who’s here standin alone on the scene.
How could she act so, how could she treat me, how could she be so mean?
It all starts with Blues.
Peace
28 mamberg // Jun 28, 2006 at 9:57 am
The blues is where it’s at!!!! It forms the basis of all my favorite Rock & Roll, from Led Zepplin to AC/DC to Traffic to Cream to ………….. well you name any classic rock and that’s it.
Just recently I was listening to a couple of Muddy Waters CD’s, and the emotion and just pure GRIT that are on those songs is incredible. To be able to play like that is one of my main dreams, to be able to use it jamming with friends would be even more awesome.
Keepin’ on practicin’…………………………..
29 DString // Jun 28, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Blues is an expression of the soul. In order to know Blues one must pay their dues, meaning you have to have had a broken heart, a day when everything you touched turned to Sugar Honey Iced Tea , nothing went right. Or it could be a time when things started to look better (i.e. you found out that woman/man who left you ten years ago is now a over-weight warthog.) Blues makes life sweet, no matter what the situation may be.
I’ve paid my dues. I am broke, feeling down-hearted and I feel the need to let this out. To express this without drinking myself to death.If I am going to cry, I want to cry the Blues. If I am experiencing a pleasant event from a bad occurance, I want to sing the praise of the Blues. I went down to the Welfare Office last week to get food stamps so my family can eat,and the woman there told me I made $25.00 to much to qualify for food stamps, but I had to pay $50 i gas to drive back and forth there three days in a row,before any spoke to me. When life gives me lemons the Blues will help me make lemonade. Getting pointers on the differen styles of the Blues will help me express my woes and my good times, even though the goodtimes may be few and far apart, I’ll have the Blues to help me make through it all. This is why I want to play the Blues.
30 Uncle Shorty // Jun 28, 2006 at 1:26 pm
Growing up in the sixties all the top name rock groups were playing the blues, The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Cream, Peter Green’s FleetwoodMac, The Doors, The Stones and the list goes on. Havining seem all these groups and many others I developed a love for the blues.
In high school a friend truned me on to a record by Sonnyboy Williamson II and I was hooked on the harmonica. I have dabbled with the blues guitar over the years but never really got serious about it until about a year ago. Now I can’t put it down and I have a thirst for learning more and more.
I jam regularly with friends. Just last weekend about 40 of us got together to play the Blues. We have already scheduled a 2 day jam at my place for next month with nearly 75 musicians invited so far.
The blues is the only music I know that brings so may people from diffrent backgrounds, ages, races, political views and classes together for just one thing. To play the music. That’s why I want to learn more, who wouldn’t.
31 KP // Jul 3, 2006 at 11:35 am
Just because …
32 RockitMn // Jul 3, 2006 at 1:10 pm
I want to play the blues because my woman left me, I got no friends, and I’m broke. Oh yeah…..my dog is about to die too.
33 bob // Jul 3, 2006 at 3:50 pm
I need to learn to play the blues…because i am so full of the blues i really need to let some of it out..and let the world share it with me.
34 nitehowl // Jul 4, 2006 at 10:19 am
Why?
I keep hearing all these different tunes in my head and I have to get them out and on the fretboard. With little success, I have had little time to devote to my favorite passtime, playing blues. I think about it all the time. This may account for all the tunes I keep hearing in my head. The tunes I hear do cause a major distraction when I am trying to do something else.
I was told by a man when I was just a child, ” Don’t Die With The Music Still Inside”, I have never forgotten his words and they have echoed in my head along with these tunes for decades now. It has gotten to the point where it is way past time to do something about these runaway tunes in my head.
I feel the 2.0 upgrade and the Ultimate Fretboard will go a long way for me in the right direction. I have enjoyed working with these disks every chance I get, which isn’t near as much as I prefer. They have begun to influence and help with the basic changes I have needed to put into effect and didn’t know what to do or where to begin.
With this launching pad of sorely needed changes, I am enjoying the new feel and sound practices that are beginning to take shape. My wife commented the other day that one of the tunes I was doing sounded better than anything that I have played in the past 25 Years. I’d say this is an improvement that snuck up on me and I didn’t even know it had an effect on my playing yet.
Now that’s a pleasant surprise to hear from someone that has heard the same old grind for years and to say you had just done something better than ever is an upgrade if I ever heard one. I’m just trying to let the Music out in the only form I really enjoy, Blues.
To me, learning anything about playing the blues is going to put me that much closer to letting the “Blues Cat out of the bag” and giving me that much needed peace of mind that comes along with being able to convey the Music That’s Still Inside. This is why I go by NiteHowl. The man who Howls at Night due to the pain of the Music Still inside.
Glenn Winters aka: NiteHowl