Intervals in Blues
Making your presence clear without being in everybody's face
all the time, that's what playing backup is all about. Using two notes (of a chord or scale) is a good way to do this. The next examples are cliche accompaniments in the swing blues style. You can combine them with chords, basslines and fills.
Experiment with different rhythms, too!
To play these riffs, you first need to know
where the tonic
is. Find the tonic and you'll know where to start the riff. Sometimes the riff starts on the tonic, no problemo. In other cases, you need to "calculate" the starting point of the riff: one fret back, one string down or two frets up,
same string. Find out what works for you.
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Swing and Jump Blues Guitar:
www.swingblues.com Blues Guitar Lessons
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Jump Blues Guitar Solo,
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Ex. 1,
Ex. 2,
Ex. 3.
These examples use different intervals
taken from the blues scale (first position) and mix them up with intervals taken
from the mixolydian scale. Move them up 5 frets and 7 frets to get the corresponding
IV and V chord riffs.
