Duration : 0:2:26

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This won’t make a lot of sense without the first part. So you should watch that first at http://youtu.be/84cEzgO4Qwk before diving in.

This is one of many free blues guitar lessons I offer here on YouTube and through my email newsletter. If you like it, I would encourage to sign up as it’s free and we have a lot of fun.

This lesson is based around the concept that soloing doesn’t have to be hard to sound good. A lot of people think they need to practice a ton of scales and learn a bunch of theory – but blues music really doesn’t work that way.

I’ve played just about every style of guitar over the years but I keep coming back to the blues and I’m sure there’s a reason for that. It’s wonderful in its simplicity but as BB King has said, “It’s the easiest to learn and the hardest to master.”

There is always a bit more to learn it seems.

http://youtu.be/MmO4myf_vTc

Duration : 0:6:31

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The Zombie Blues. Time lapse painting

It’s based on a Monday video from Nice Peter, featuring George Watsky and Dante (givememotion): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVDtQZrnxE&list=PLCC358756BDDC329E&context=C3b2d66aADOEgsToPDskL7vbUevSjXmAnmrwDnoGua

Also, check out this other video I did with George Watsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQqK7BWq_c&list=PL5CE956DA287947D8&context=C39d1f9fADOEgsToPDskJ7PoXEJ7tRP4sJaIfXu4Ic

And here’s just the guys too. They make awesomeness all the time for some awesome reason:

Nice Peter http://www.youtube.com/nicepeter // http://www.youtube.com/nicepeter
George Watsky http://www.youtube.com/gwatsky
Dante http://www.youtube.com/givememotion

TITLE: “Zombie Blues”
MEDIUM: Ink & Watercolor
SIZE: 9in. X 12in.
TIME: 1hr 21min

Duration : 0:2:41

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Duration : 0:3:24

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Duration : 0:6:45

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Duration : 0:1:13

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The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved.

The term “the blues” refers to the “blue devils”, meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman’s one-act farce Blue Devils (1798).[3] Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to since 1912, when Hart Wand’s “Dallas Blues” became the first copyrighted blues composition.[4][5] In lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood.
The blues form is a cyclic musical form which repeating progression of chords mirrors the call and response scheme ubiquitous in African and African-American music. During the first decades of the 20th century, blues music was not clearly defined in terms of a particular chord progression.[7] With the popularity of early performers, such as Bessie Smith, use of the twelve-bar blues spread across the music industry during the 1920s and 30s.[8] Other chord progressions, such as 8-bar forms, are still considered blues; examples include “How Long Blues”, “Trouble in Mind”, and Big Bill Broonzy’s “Key to the Highway”. There are also 16-bar blues, as in Ray Charles’s instrumental “Sweet 16 Bars” and in Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man”. Idiosyncratic numbers of bars are also encountered occasionally, as with the 9-bar progression in “Sitting on Top of the World” by Howlin Wolf.
Like jazz, rock and roll, heavy metal music, hip hop music, reggae, country music, and pop music, blues has been accused of being the “devil’s music” and of inciting violence and other poor behavior.[132] In the early 20th century, the blues was considered disreputable, especially as white audiences began listening to the blues during the 1920s.[65] In the early twentieth century, W.C. Handy was the first to popularize blues-influenced music among non-black Americans.

During the blues revival of the 1960s and ’70s, acoustic blues artist Taj Mahal and legendary Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins wrote and performed music that figured prominently in the popularly and critically acclaimed film Sounder (1972). The film earned Mahal a Grammy nomination for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture and a BAFTA nomination.[133] Almost 30 years later, Mahal wrote blues for, and performed a banjo composition, claw-hammer style, in the 2001 movie release “Songcatcher”, which focused on the story of the preservation of the roots music of Appalachia.

Perhaps the most visible example of the blues style of music in the late 20th century came in 1980, when Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi released the film The Blues Brothers. The film drew many of the biggest living influenciers of the Rhythm and blues genre together, such as Ray Charles, James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, and John Lee Hooker. The band formed also began a successful tour under the Blues Brothers marquee. 1998 brought a sequel, Blues Brothers 2000 that, while not holding as great a critical and financial success, featured a much larger number of blues artists, such as B.B. King, Bo Diddley, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Musselwhite, Blues Traveller, Jimmy Vaughn, Jeff Baxter.

In 2003, Martin Scorsese made significant efforts to promote the blues to a larger audience. He asked several famous directors such as Clint Eastwood and Wim Wenders to participate in a series of documentary films for PBS called The Blues.[134] He also participated in the rendition of compilations of major blues artists in a series of high-quality CDs. Blues guitarist and vocalist Keb’ Mo’ performed his blues rendition of “America, the Beautiful” in 2006 to close out the final season of the television series The West Wing.

Duration : 0:2:35

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Duration : 0:2:55

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Duration : 0:17:32

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