Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons - <a href="https://jimbruceguitar.com/TexasDeltaLessons.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://jimbruceguitar.com/TexasDeltaLessons.html</a> 75% Off Today! <br /><br />Jim Bruce presents blues guitar lessons across all styles and major artists. Ragtime blues, Delta, Chicago Swing, Bottleneck, Piedmont - from Texas To The Delta.<br /><br />The Blues in E is a really great way to start playing acoustic blues. It's a very simple blues. Basically, we have E, A and A7 and B7, and a few variations throw in here and there. You start to become more fluent and more confident with it. People play around with it because it's a simple structure. <br /><br />It also gives us a bit of a problem because when we start to sing verse after verse we want to make it a little bit different. We want to add variations because just playing a basic tune or a basic chord quickly gets very boring. This is a cardinal sin - we must not bore people when we play blues or any other kind of music. So what do we do?<br /><br />We introduce variations which inevitably we're gonna use all the fret board, but we don't to get too complicated, because remember - we've always got to maintain that old blues feeling or at least try and capture it as best we can. Try and keep the old blues way of playing. But while we're singing we don't really want to be playing lots of complicated stuff, unless you're Tommy Emmanuel, then go ahead.<br /><br />So we're going to use very simple ideas to try and give this kind of old Delta blues feel. The first thing that I did was move higher on the fret board here, so up to the seventh fret to play this famous train whistle lick. What I'm playing is this. I'll bend that second string, maybe the other little bit or sometimes I play the notes individually and add a variation by playing the last E string higher up on the ninth fret.<br /><br />Often, not always, I'll hit the monotonic base at the same time. Well, sometimes I'll just strum both strings with my my forefinger, depends what I'm trying to do and whether I'm singing or not. If I'm singing then sometimes I keep the complexity down a little bit to make sure that I hit the notes and that my voice doesn't go out of tune. <br /><br />You'll notice sometimes that damp that bass note with my right hand and sometimes I'll let it ring. It's sometimes nice to let there a base note to ring if you want to put some vibrato or a bend on the strings, and then it helps to provide that nice old acoustic bluesy sound. So to make this train whistle sound I'm just going to place my index finger on the high E string on the seventh fret, my next finger on the next string. Now if you play with the bottom E string, it already has a nice bluesy feel to it.<br /><br />Now all you need to do is just bend that second string along and you have that lovely train whistle sound. Also, if you play them individually, you can still bend it … [<br /><br />Music] you can add vari<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8-yPHqH9M" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D8-yPHqH9M</a>