This course dives into acoustic blues guitar, focusing on the styles of Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee. Youâll get the scoop on fingerpicking techniques, swing chords, and the rich history behind their music. Itâs all about making that bluesy sound come alive!
Blues Chords: Guitar Lessons: Acoustic Blues Lessons: Blues Chords and Structure of Broonzy & Brownie McGhee songs.
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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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
Fingerstyle Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons In The Old StyleAcoustic 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...
Jim's a great instructor and I had fun learning
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Aula muito, muito boa, fluente, praticåvel. Excelente professor, didåtica excelente. Parabéns.
Great Short course - Thank You!
Love Broonzy. If you do to, this is a great intro to his guitar style. Jim doe sit again! Reiner.
Very clear and detailed
i love brownie's playing and its a great song, do you provide the full tab
Great little course - Jim obviously loves this music and has studied and played it until he knows every note. Really well presented with full tab, left and right hand closeups with chords. He breaks the tunes down into manageable sections, with lots of helpful tips and hints on technique aling the way. Very highly recommended - and check out his long course which has much more of the same.
Good tuition and easy to follow.
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