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Blues in any key
Tutorial: Part 1
Danny Grady: It may happen to you one day. You are at a club and someone hands you a guitar and asks you to play Blues and B Flat, and you are not going to know what to do. Well, at least after you watch this video you will know exactly what to do.
Right now we are going to take a look at playing a basic Blues progression in just about any key, and give you a basic strategy to approaching Blues in any key. It's not comprehensive by any means, because nothing on Blues ever is, but we will at least get you through the first 12 bars. So let's take a listen to how I would play Blues in G, in a very basic form.
So Blues, as I am playing it here, this 12 bars Blues is made up of three chords. So the first thing that we are going to have to do is identify the three chords that we are going to be working with. These chords are referred to as the Root, the Fourth, and the Fifth.
So if we were playing Blues in G the first thing that you would need to do is find G on the sixth string. So E, F, G, all the notes, all the natural notes are a whole step apart, with the exception of E and F and B and C. Those notes are a half step apart. So we have E, E and F are right next to each other. Now, F and G are a whole step apart.
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Danny Grady: Starting with the first fret across strings one and two, the first fret. The second finger on the second fret of the third string, so that's a little part of an F chord there.
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