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Acoustic Blues Guitar Lessons https://jimbruceguitar.com/TexasDeltaLessons.html 75% Off Today! Learn To Play Blues Guitar Jim Bruce presents blues guitar lessons across all styles and major artists. Ragtime blues, Delta, Chicago Swing, Bottleneck, Piedmont - from Texas To The Delta Opening song lyrics: Have you seen my baby, Tell her I'll see her in New Orleans, Now if you see my baby, Tell her I'll see her in New Orleans, Or maybe in Memphis, She'll know just what I mean Hi - that's a little part of a song I wrote a while ago called New Orleans and it's basically it's a slow blues in E. It's loosely based around the playing of Lightnin' Hopkins. When you're putting a song together there's a few things that uh... you need to consider that we don't really read about in books. For example we're playing a blues in E, we're just going to use three chords - the major E chord A, the long A with A7 and B7 in two or three forms. Now because the blues in this way is such a simple structure we have a bit of a problem. In the first place it's a great advantage because we don't have to change chords many times but uh... one of our problems is that it's difficult to make it sound interesting to somebody listening to. We've all heard the the rendition of the famous blues in E that's bored us stiff after maybe five minutes or so. What can we do to make it more interesting and there are various places that we could do that. The first place is the introduction because we capture people's attention. It's interesting and it sets the scene, it sets the atmosphere for the song. So we finish the introduction and we start to get ready to sing. Now singing brings its own particular problems because we're finger picking and it's very very few people that can finger pick uh... while they are singing with the same kind of dexterity. So what we tend to do, we have a little flourish before we start and then we sing and while we're singing we do something that's a little bit less complicated, that we can handle at the same time desperately trying not to show that what we try to do is quite difficult to sing along with some finger picking patterns. So in this song for example I start in this way … Music If you don't make it Down to New Orleans … And you notice that while I'm singing there's not a lot happening and then after I've sung a few words finding something to fill in ready for the next line because if not its very boring. We could sing if you don't make it and its just a basic beat, but we can do something extra. This is the secret - trying to find this extra to do, so there's always something happening after lyrics that follows the basic form. We can play around with what we do with those locations. Also another thing to do that makes music a little b ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_npavuc98fs