Fingerstyle Blues Guitar Solo In The Style Of Step It Up And Go - Fundamental Changes. Step It Up And Go Lesson by Andi Saitenhieb.
In the last lesson we took a look at an easy Boogie Woogie accompaniment pattern. In this lesson you learn an authentic fingerstyle solo in the style of ‘Step It Up And Go’ by Blind Boy Fuller. Again this solo can be applied to a countless number of other Blues songs. All examples are taken from my new book ‘Garantiert Akustik Bluesgitarre lernen’ (published by Alfred Music Publishing in November 2014), which contains many more examples and ideas (available at my website). The basic solo motif a la ‘Step It Up And Go’ We start with this bluesy motif that is the main ingredient of our Step It Up And Go solo: Then we accompany this melody with an alternating bass played with the thumb (if you don’t know about this technique please take a look at my previous lessons) Audio Player The melody notes on the third fret are all played with the pinky.
Building a complete solo from this motif Audio Player For some extra spice I have thrown in a cool bass run: Done gone » A man playing jazz on a vi-leen. Jazz?
Maybe not precisely, but it’s good enough for me. To the extent that you may be a regular visitor to this site, you may have noticed that I’m a nut for the Mississippi Sheiks. They were a sophisticated group of musicians and certainly leaned, in a general sense, toward the pop sounds of the day. Their song “The Jazz Fiddler” was recently featured on the Old Hat Compilation “Folks, He Sure Do Pull Some Bow.” Interestingly, I’ve been asked in a couple of comments and emails about this song, so I thought I’d make a post about it.
“The Jazz Fiddler” was recorded on the 17th of February, 1930 in Shreveport, Louisiana and was listed on the record as being played by Walter Jacobs and Lonnie Carter. At any rate, the song is played out of B-flat, both on the guitar and the fiddle. The progression goes something like this - beats are indicated by a chord name or a “/” - measure lines by a “|” - 4 beats per measure: In theoretical terms, this could be expressed as: Memphis Minnie - Black Rat Swing Tab. Tab Mapper. Amen Tab by Jolie Holland. More Jolie Holland Tabs Artist: Jolie Holland Song: Amen Tabbed by: Morgenroth Mark (markmorgenroth [at] yahoo) Bb Amen-there's a ring around the moon Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you C7 F there's a road drifting through the mountains F E Eb Eb E F I'm gonna fly down that road F E Eb Eb E F till I get to where I'm going Bb Amen-there's a ring around the moon Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you C7 F there's a light inside my chest F E Eb Eb E F that switched on when we first met F E Eb Eb E F and it will not let me rest- Amen Bb Amen-there's a ring around the moon Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you Db Bb I'm going to fly all night down to see you C7 F and the silvery moon so fine F E Eb Eb E F and the air tastes like wine F E Eb Eb E F and the road slips and slides.
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