Playing a blues riff in your song....

Because the good response we had for Andrew's cool guitar tip (the previous blog post) he's decided to give us another one!

I know some of you are well versed on your guitar... but some of you will really find this useful.

This time his post and video is about basic building block for blues soloing. This riff can be copies and then variations of it can be used.

Remember, you don't have to write 'blues' style songs to incorporate these riffs! Far from it. You should use them in whatever style you write in. Also, you can play it on any style guitar (ie. electric, classical etc) and check out how it sounds.

So Andrew (from Guitar5Day.com) ...thank you very much!

Again, please leave your thoughts here on the blog so we can get more from Andrew ... please :-)

Shamir




This video is about a basic building block for blues Soloing. This riff can be copied and then variations can be used.

The Riff is in A minor/a blues but if you slide it up or down the neck can be played in any key.

Here is the tab for the riff:


E|--------5----------------5-----------
B|--8b10-----8--5-------5-----8---(b10)
G|-----------------7b8-----------------
D|-------------------------------------
A|-------------------------------------
E|-------------------------------------

Fingers:
-----3----1--4--1---3---1--1---4---(3)


Try playing the riff in three parts.

Try the first two notes. Get a good sounding bend. make sure you bend all the way up a whole step. In this case from G to A.

Next Play the short run from the second note (A on high E string) down to the D (7th fret G string)

Lastly Bend the D (7th Fret G string) and play the last three notes and the final bend.

The bend at the end is somewhat optional.

Play with this and come up with your own variations.

Andrew
Guitar5Day.com

Do your guitar chords sound DEAD?

For those of us who play guitar to write songs (and if you don't, what are you waiting for?) many times our chords can sound rather DEAD. Here, Andrew from Guitar5Day.com shows us how with a couple of simple adjustments, we can make our chords come ALIVE.

He was nice enough to also put together a short video (for SongwritingTipsOnline readers). A massive thanks to Andrew.

If we're nice to him (hint hint... post a nice comment in the comments section below :-) then I'm sure we'll get some more cool stuff from him.

Take it away Andrew.....





One of my favorite and easiest things to do is taking a simple hammer on and making open chords come alive.

I have prepared a short video lesson for you.

What I am talking about is using the open chords C major, F Major and G major and simply hammering with the second finger.

Here is a tab that will give you an idea of what I mean: The only thing you do is take your 2nd finger off the string and then put it back on. Play with it.

e[]------------------[]
B[]----1--1--1-------[]
G[]----0--0--0-------[]
D[]----2--0--2-------[]
A[]----3--3--3-------[]
E[]------------------[]

The Exercise would look like this:

e[]-------------------------------[]
B[]----1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--1--[]
G[]-------------------------------[]
D[]----2--0--2--0--2--0--2--0--2--[]
A[]----3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--3--[]
E[]-------------------------------[]