[Music] So anyway, let’s get into it. I’m in the key of G for this one. And as always, I’m incorporating previous ideas, but expanding on them a little bit and also offering up some new things as well. And for this one, what I’m really focusing on is going back and forth between the chords and some tasty little licks and even putting some stuff right inside the [Music] chords. That’s always fun to do. Okay, so what I’ll do is I’ll just play it for you first at tempo. Okay, it’s not too quick. And then we’ll break it down phrase by phrase, lick by lick. Okay, here we go. A 12 bar blues in the key of G. Heat up [Music] here. [Music] Okay, so let’s jump right into it. Uh, right out the gate, we have that opening leadin lick. Okay, so you can see the tab up on the screen and of course you have the visual, but let me play that for you nice and slow. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay. And then we are into the first [Music] [Applause] phrase. Okay. I consider that one phrase. We’re moving from the one chord to the four chord. Now, what’s happening here is I’m holding down a G7 bar chord. Okay? And while you’re holding that chord down, you want to get as many notes ringing out as possible, right? So, while you’re holding that chord down, you’re playing this lick with inside the [Music] chord. And as I say, it’s all right inside the chord. Very cool. All right. And then we want to move to the five chord, which is in this case going to be a C9. And all we’re doing with that chord is arpeggiating it. Down, down, down, followed by up, up, up, which you can see on the tab, of course. But so now we have now off of that C9 chord, we’re going to play some double stop action. Okay. Now, you may want to flip up your fingers or mix up your fingers a little bit to grab that using your three uh your two middle fingers, but uh I just play it right off of the chord. As you can see, I just pop my pinky down here. So, that’s an option. Okay, that’s just simply the way I like to play it. So, we’re sliding again from three to five on the G string, catching the first E string on the fifth fret, and then in reverse like that. Okay, so we have Okay. Now, the next phrase brings us back to the one chord, the G chord. And we’re playing a boogie pattern in a slightly different way. A very acousticy blues way I like to think of it, but instead of going, you know, the uh old school way. I’m just doing it like [Music] this. You get a few more strings in there. you know, you get the B string in there and you’re kind of getting that uh G note ringing through. So, this is how I’m playing it. I’m using my second finger on the third fret on the sixth string. And then place your first finger in the uh second fret on the D string. But you want to play the D, the G, and the B strings. So, you get this. Then open it up. Then use your third finger to land the third fret on the D string and do the same thing. and back. So, we [Music] have kind of a fun and cool way to play the old school boogie pattern with a different fingering. Okay, so we’re going to do a walk up now back to the four chord, the C9 chord. So, I played this [Music] And that walks us into the C9 chord. So where you jump off is really important, right? So let me do that [Music] slowly. And as you can see, we walked right into that C9 chord again for the next phrase. I arpeggiated the chord the exact same way, but two times in a [Music] row and a string of kind of low-end double stops. Okay, I slid into it, but the double stops are as you can see on the tab. And I think down, up, down, down, up, down, down, up, down is probably the best picking pattern for that. [Applause] So off of that C9 we [Music] have Okay. And then we find our way back to the one chord, of course. And we’re doing kind of a Black Country woman type thing here. [Music] And that’s going to take us into the five chord, the D7. So again, playing that one nice and slow. You want to kind of keep your ring finger on that G note, the third fret on the sixth string, as much as you can so that it uh rounds out the notes and makes them sound like they’re all a chord, so to [Music] speak. So you can see that on the tab, but let me play it slow as well. [Music] And then that takes us to the five chord as I mentioned the D7. And we are using the same strings and the same arpeggiation and picking that we used on the C9 chord. But then we’re going to invert it slightly where the third, the major third becomes the root note. So, how you want to do this is keep your first two fingers where they are, but pull your third finger down to the fifth fret on the G string and then your pinky down to the fifth fret on the first E string. So, we have and then we arpeggiate those first four strings, but the same thing, right? Three down, three up. So we [Music] have and then we do the same thing at C7. So backing up a little bit, what we have is this. [Music] And then we have the [Music] turnaround. Okay. Now, for the turnaround, what I’m doing, it’s the same idea. I’m using my ring finger to fret that third fret on the sixth string. And I want to hold that down so that that note rings through the rest of it. Right? And so, uh, I use this fingering right here. You can see which strings I’m picking on the tab. And I’m using a down up pattern, by the way. Pinky comes down on the third fret on the D string. So we want to pick the D, the G, and the B strings now. Then second fret with the second finger on the D string, first fret with the first finger, and then finally open. So slowly we [Music] have and there you can see the chords on the screen. We have a E flat 9 or D sharp 9 if you want to call it that to a D7 sharp nine. And then what you can do you can just start the whole thing over at that point. Right? You can go like this. and just go through it again. Okay. But on the video, what I did was I ended it with a G7 over here, Stone style, just like so. Okay. So, what I think I’ll do right now is I’ll play the whole thing really slowly for you. Okay. Uh, you’ve got it up to tempo at the beginning of the video if you want to reference that. But let me just play the whole thing for you very slowly. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Music] So, there you go with yet another installment of acoustic blues guitar. I hope you enjoyed it. And as I mentioned, there’s uh access to other acoustic blues lessons in the description box below, as well as my blues rock guitar course, okay? So, you can check that out if you’re into it. And I shall see you guys in the next video. [Music] Hey guys, Howard here with acoustic blues guitar, adding fills, turnarounds, licks, and all the rest to your rhythm playing. Uh, about a week ago, I did 10 blues turnarounds for guitar. And I did that on electric guitar on my telly. And a few people spotted this little groove that I played after I did a certain [Music] example. And they were like, "Hey, Howard, can you tell us a little bit more about that? Can you do a tutorial on that?" So, I thought that’s a great idea, but it might be kind of boring just doing that rhythm guitar part over and over again. Okay. So, what I thought I’d do is I’d add a few of those turnarounds, those licks and stuff that I did in the previous lesson into this rhythm guitar part and kind of really uh build on that and just show you some cool things that you can do. All right. So, uh I’ll just do the performance and then we’ll get into the tutorial. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right, so let’s jump right into it. Right out the gate, I played the very first turnaround that was in my 10 turnarounds for blues guitar. Right, so that’s a nice turnaround. It’s a nice opener. It’s a nice closer. Anything like that. Okay, so let me just play that one for you really slow. And you’ve got the tab up on the screen right into a B7 sharp nine. And then we’re into that groove that uh some viewers had mentioned. Okay. So, what I’m doing is I’m [Music] playing. So, what I’ve got is my first finger on the second fret on the G string, my ring finger, fourth fret on the A string, and the D string in between is just muted out. Okay? So, lay this finger a little bit sloppy, and you’ll have it. There’s a little bit of muting in the back here, of course. Uh, but I’m also using that open E [Music] string. Hit it again. And you can see what I did there. I just replaced this finger with this one and do a half step slide. [Music] subtle bend like about a quarter bend on the third fret on the uh sixth string. And that’s the pattern. That’s the [Music] circle and then I do another fill. Okay. So, what we have so far is [Music] And that walks us into the four chord into A. And so that fill nice and slow is. And once you hit that open A string, you’re into the four chord. Once more, nice and slow. Okay? And you can use whatever fingers you want for that or with your first two. But once we’re into that four chord, now we’re playing [Music] this. It’s the same pattern that we used on E, but of course, we’re in A now. And taking into consideration the tuning of the guitar. We have the first finger on the third fret on the B string, second finger, fourth fret on the D string. And of course, this time that G string is muted out. Although if it comes through, it still sounds pretty cool anyway, right? And so what I do there is I lay my ring finger down onto the fourth fret on the B string to slide up to the fifth [Music] fret. Right back to that. And then of course little subtle bend on the third fret on the A string. This [Music] time you’re going to play that twice like any good blues, right? But when you come back, attack the sixth string to take you back to E. It sounds a little bit better that [Music] way. So if I were to play all of that nice and slow, it would be this. [Music] And we do that little walk off of the one chord into the five chord. So how I do that exactly timing wise is like [Music] this right after that second slide. And that takes us to the five chord. So once again on [Music] that and I’m into that B7 sharp nine. Hit the bass note twice. That sounds kind of nice and rhythmic. Move up to a C9. Back to the B7 sharp nine. So rhythmically we [Music] have and then we play the turnaround. And as a note, that is one that was included in my 10 blues turnarounds for guitar. Okay, but here it is. Nice and slow. I think cross picking is best on this. Down, up, up, down, up, [Music] up. And of course, I played the C9 into that B7 sharp nine at the tail end of that as well. So entering into the second goaround of this 12 bar blues, we do a little Hrix. Okay. So we’ve got the classic E7 sharp nine and I’m [Music] playing right. So, we’ve got that open E string twice and then the chord. And then we have that’s all pretty straight ahead. And then you can see I come back and I play this pattern [Music] again just one time and back to the uh Hrix [Music] chord. And then we do this walk up. It’s similar to the turnaround, but we’re going in the opposite direction, of course, making our way up to the four chord. So we have that’s a little bit wider swing, right? But the picking should be the same. Down, up, up, down, up, up. And that takes us to the uh four chord, the A7. So let me play that nice and slow as well. [Music] And then we have an A7 to a 13th to an A7 again. And I’m playing. Okay, that’s the first pattern. I’ll play that [Music] slowly. And then we form an A7. Get back style. So that whole section together is played like this. And then we are back [Music] to same walk that we did before, [Music] right into that B7, but this time we’re arpeggiating the chord. into an A7. Okay. Down, down, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up, up, down. But of course, feel free to do whatever works best for you. Okay, so we have [Music] And that’s the final turnaround right there. I’ll just play that one nice and slow. And then we end with an F9 to an E9. So there you go with acoustic blues, adding turnarounds, fills, licks, whatever you want to do. Okay, I hope you guys enjoyed it and as always I shall see you in the next video. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Hi guys, Howard here with some more acoustic blues. Um, we’ll do a 12 bar blues in G and we’ll do a couple of rounds and I’ll just try to show you some stuff uh that you can do that’s kind of uh fun. Okay. So, the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to start off with a G7 chord, and I’m going to wrap everything around that G7 chord. And that’ll walk us into the four chord, the C7. So, again, what you’ve basically got going on is you’re holding down this G7 chord. And as you can see from the tab, I’m hitting the fifth and sixth string together. Maybe a little mute in between back here. And hold that down and let it ring out. And then so the lick [Music] is all while you’re holding that chord [Music] down. And then we [Music] play. So we put those two together and we [Music] have and you can see that I came back and played that first pattern again. Then we’re going to walk up these octaves. uh walking the baseline [Music] up. Now you can do that with your ring finger if you want instead of your [Music] pinky. Either way is uh perfectly fine. Okay. So for that G7 now the one chord all the patterns together are like [Music] so and that walks us into a C9 chord. Okay. And the C9 is played like this. [Music] So, we’ve got the C9 chord and we’re picking from the A string to the G string. Three downstrokes. Then from the B string, up, up, down. And then we have the little lick. And I do that with my pinky just to keep the ring finger where it needs to be to come back and grab that C9 chord again. So, we’re just sliding up on the G string, grab the E string, and slide [Music] back. So, the second time through, instead of uh skipping a string and going to the E string, I keep it on the B string just for a little bit of uh variety. [Music] And then we head back to the G and uh do the same thing that we did before just for now. So coming off of the [Applause] [Music] C9. Now right there you can see I threw in a chromatic note because we’re going to go to the D7 now. And that sounds real sweet to walk that down. So even though we come back and play the same patterns on the G7, we change the very last note to the sixth fret on the A string. That way we get this nice little walk into the D7 chord. So what we have [Music] is now once we’ve landed the D7 chord, it’s the same strings and the same picking pattern as the C9 that we did just a second ago, but it’s a little bit uh longer. Down, down, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up. [Music] Walk that bass note down. Land a C7. Same picking pattern. Down, down, down, up, up, down, up, up, down, up. Third fret to the first fret on the A string. And that takes us to our first turnaround. [Music] So again, coming off of the C7 chord, we have land the third fret on your sixth string, G note. Skip two strings so that you’re down on the G string. Now, and the G and the B string are struck with a downstroke and an upstroke. So it’s down, down, up. Place your ring finger. I don’t know if you can see that on the third fret on the D string. So that’s the D string, G string, and B string again with that down, down, up. Then slip this finger to the second fret on the D string, then the first fret, then open. So that turnaround [Music] is and we’re landing a uh E flat 9 to a [Music] D9. So let me play that whole thing for you nice and slow. Okay, here we go. [Music] [Music] So, let’s dive in and do another round. Okay. And this one features a few of the things that I played at the beginning of the [Music] [Music] video. And I know you can see that on the tab, but uh I’m on the third fret on the sixth string with my second finger. And I’m doing a pulloff at the third fret on the B and the G string using my ring finger and my pinky. And then you can see on the tab I’m [Music] playing. And then we’ve got a hammer on on the first fret on the A string. Kind of keep that finger there for a second if you can. And then swing down and hit the open G string. [Music] So the tail end of that pattern is once again the third fret on the uh sixth string with my second finger, second fret on the D string, back to the sixth fret. So, we’ve got and then third fret on the D string with your ring finger and back. Finally ending with an open D string. Put that all together and you have [Music] [Music] and we move to the four chord. Now, for the four chord, we’re going to do something similar to what we did on the G7. We’re going to come all the way up here to the eighth fret to form a C dominant seventh chord, and we’re going to start out basically the same, but there’ll be more licks in it. Right? So, we have and then we’re going to [Music] go. No need to explain that, but get your fingers off of the chord so that you can kind of manipulate [Applause] that. And then we come back to the G. [Music] So what we have so far then is [Music] this. And then we make our way to the five chord, but this time instead of a D7, we’re using a D9. And it’ll be played like so. We’ll move from the D9 to the C9. Okay. So, I’m hitting the bass note twice, the chord twice, then the bass note once, and the chord once. Then move to the fourth fret to walk it down to C. And then we’re going to do the same thing on the C9, but we’ll change that last note to the first fret on the A string. I know you can see it all on the tab, but hopefully this helps out a little bit. There we have it. [Music] So now putting the whole thing together, this is what we have. [Music] So, there you go. Some more acoustic blues, uh, part two, so to speak. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed it and, uh, we’ll see you guys real soon. [Music]
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