Your opinions on my blues playing

loadedguitar

loadedguitar

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Hi everyone,

I've been playing guitar for six years, and in the last two years I got into blues. This is where I stand now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huJxa3pR7Qk
I know it's nothing special, but I want to hear some opinions on it. I need some advice, and criticism (bad too!). Thank you in advance!
Merry christmas and happy new year!
 
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Loved the tone. Playing was good too, nice attack.

What were you playing through?
 
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Keep practicing. Maybe a lot less compression and a more organic tone. Try losing the backing tracks and doing an A'natural Blues clip.
 
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Not bad at all. Id go for a little less gain myself...

Seems like you got good attack going on, and good timing as well... just need to smooth some things out a bit...a few times I could tell you were just running through a lick. With that said, its also tough to keep er going solid for 5 min.
 
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I was wondering if i'ts enough for practice to just play over a backing track and try to make my own licks? Should I try other scales? If so, can you tell me wich scales?
 
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It's blues...gotta play from the heart dude.

Look into stuff like call and response. Mixing minor/ major pentatonics can be cool as well (Angus Young does this a lot btw)
 
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Kamanda~SD said:
It's blues...gotta play from the heart dude.

Look into stuff like call and response. Mixing minor/ major pentatonics can be cool as well (Angus Young does this a lot btw)
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Alright. I sometimes do that minor/major thing. Thank you for your help!
 
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Also go listen to buddy guy and listen to how he does some bends. Sometimes does some cool chomatic stuff that just lands beautifully
 
Your opinions on my blues playing

I listen to a lot of Joe Bonamassa, Peter Green and sometimes Gary Moore. Thanks for the help everyone! Merry christmas!
 
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Pretty good, play with less gain for a clean and clear tone.

Things to work on:
Find resolution, root, 3rd occasionally the 5th.
Pentatonics are fine to begin with. Now you got the hang of them it's time to find what the blues are about, the blue notes.
Hexatonic scale where there is a blue note between the 4th and 5th (so in Em blues you get Bb)
Then modulate from minor to major, for example in Em progression finding that D# when you modulate from Bm to B major chord, giving you the major 7th blue note.
Finally the 1/4 tone bend on the .3rd so the pitch is between major and minor then resolve to the root.

Your licks are pretty good, but will really sound more bluesy with the above.


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loadedguitar said:
I listen to a lot of Joe Bonamassa, Peter Green and sometimes Gary Moore. Thanks for the help everyone! Merry christmas!
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+1 on Peter Green and Gary Moore. [emoji1360]

I would addJohnny Winter, BB King, Freddie King, Albert King as well.


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Another thing is plucking a string one, bend up a hole step, then release bend back to original note and depending what chord and where you are in the scale pull off a hole step or a step and a half then finger the original note while bending up a hole step. Peter Green did this A LOT!
another trick is double stops, and incorporating pull off and hammer on then original bend in the double stop.



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Thank you for the advice! About the tone, my multieffect isn't the best so lower gain tones don't sound too good with it. I started using amplitube 3 now, it's much better.
 
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Agree with the above. It is more rock than blues. I liked the sound once I got used to it. Would love to hear without the backing stuff.

Also agree... play from the heart! Make it sing, brother.
 
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