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GUITAR TAB
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SONGS
This song demonstrates some of the licks, phrases and styles that can be played with the pentatonic scale. This footage is ONLY available online.
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• Major, minor and blues tonalities
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Scales, Chords, Progressions, and More
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Many people have been nagging me to do a lesson on Bad Blues, a slow bluesinstrumental I recorded in the past. So here it is.
It’s based on the playing of Baby Tate, a wonderful Carolina bluesman, and Lightinin’ Hopkins, the texas blues giant.
Here’s the original version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-YL02pumY
It’s a typical “monotonic bass” or “dead thumb” blues instrumental with a bonanza of licks and interesting ideas you can use.
So here’s the complete song first, after that I teach the introduction.
I’m in standard tuning and playing in the key of E
Four more lessons, each lesson teaching a verse, will follow.
Here is the link to my previous version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06nOZES084
It’s slightly faster than the version I teach
TABLATURE
I tabbed this song out (intro and all the verses) so if you don’t want to listen to my boring explanations
check out my playlist TABLATURE or go straight to
http://www.daddystovepipe.com
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Let’s have some fun
The first version I heard of this song was by Roy Bookbinder. He recorded it on his first lp in 1971.
The song goes back to the minstrel area and was recorded by black and white singers like Luke Jordan and Doc Watson.
The Traveling Man is a trickster hero with superhuman powers, a characteristic which he shares with trickster figures like Brother Bill or High John the Conqueror. Unlike Br’er Rabbit, the Traveling Man does not engineer the circumstances in which he plays his trick; instead he finds himself in situations from which he escapes by magic or his wits.
I’m playing a L-00 copy made by John Gréven.
C-position capo I
FREE TABLATURE
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Free Tablature of this lesson available at http://www.adamrafferty.com/lessons
Here’s a nifty little blues-funk-groove idea over an E7 chord. I made a simple tablature PDF that can be downloaded here, for FREE! No signup required – just download the PDF with one click.
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Enjoy!
- Adam
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Here’s an original “walking bass style” E Blues called “Vitamin E Blues”. If you’d like the tablature for this one it is FREE PDF once you sign up for the mailing list at
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You’ll get the link for the download in the final confirmation email. Enjoy!
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