Blues Chords & Lessons: The Blues Guitar Of Broonzy & Mcghee

Blues Chords: Guitar Lessons: Acoustic Blues Lessons: Blues Chords and Structure of Broonzy & Brownie McGhee songs.

What you'll learn

Play the acoustic blues chords and play the guitar picking styles of Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee.

You will learn to play Glory Of Love by Big Bill Broonzy

You will learn to play Hey Hey by Big Bill Broonzy

You will learn to play Key To The Highway by Big Bill Broonzy

You will learn how to play Living With The Blues by Brownie McGhee

You will learn to play Worryin You Off My Mind by Big Bill Broonzy

Requirements

You should be an intermediate acoustic guitar player, with some experience of finger picking guitar in any style.

Be familiar with basic blues chords

Description

How Brownie McGhee and Big Bill Broonzy Used Swing Blues Guitar Chords Guitar lessons cover many genres inside this musical form of the blues. Blues guitar developed from the African-American community & can be sad in the Delta style from the deep South, or happy in the Piedmont ragtime guitar style of playing which is evident in all forms of modern jazz, rhythm & blues. Between the two there are a group of acoustic blues guitar players who used many standard chord progressions to play with a definite swing, sill using blues notes, but a step up from the standard twelve bar blues.
Learn Acoustic Blues Guitar In The Old Style
Big Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee are two great examples of blues men who excelled at adapting traditional blues verses, using shuffles, walking basses and all the usual tricks but giving it that certain 'groove'; almost like rock and roll. The five lessons in this course take a look at just one of McGhee's songs - Livin With The Blues, and four of Broonzy's.
Guitar Lessons - Learning Blues The Right Way
If you can play one of Brownie's acoustic blues songs, you can just about play them all! Both men were country blues singers originally, further developing what was basically the music of Africa evolving through field hollers and spirituals, particularly after the ending of slavery. Their swinging style of blues became a firm favorite in juke joints, together with Delta blues and the appealing Piedmont (ragtime blues.)
What You Will Learn in these acoustic guitar lessons:
How to finger pick acoustic blues guitar in the distinctive swing style.Palm damping techniques to ensure that the sound is 'tight'!The chord structure of swing blues in the keys of E, A and CHow to reproduce that elusive 'old blues guitar' feeling.
Broonzy's style was much broader and we take a look at several of his songs in some detail.
Both men use a fingerpicking style called 'monotonic bass', which means that the thumb strikes just one bass guitar string every beat, instead of alternating between two or three strings.
It's less complicated than alternating bass fingerstyle blues, but that's not to say the guitar sound produced isn't as rich or musical. Both men were very inventive in their treatment of the blues, and the bass action helped drive the music forward in a very definite and unique way.
Each lesson is between 20 mins and 30 mins long and provides everything you need to play the songs presented, including slow close up demos of both hands, tips on singing and printable guitar tab files. Acoustic blues lessons in the swing style just got easy - learn blues guitar now!
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Overview

Section 1: The Swing Guitar Style Of Bill Broonzy and Brownie McGhee

Lecture 1 Livin' With The Blues - Brownie McGhee

Lecture 2 Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy

Lecture 3 Hey Hey - Big Bill Broonzy

Lecture 4 Worryin' You Off My Mind - Big Bill Broonzy

Lecture 5 Glory Of Love - Big Bill Broonzy

Lecture 6 Jim's Main Course and Special Offer

If you already play some acoustic blues guitar and want to learn more blues chords and their use, then this course is for you.