[kev374]

Anyone know some simple but cool sounding blues progressions to practice?

[Marwan]

Do you mean these?

then you play it backwards


|---------------------------0-3-|
|-----------------------0-3-----|
|-----------------0-2-3---------|
|------------0-2----------------|
|-------0-1-2-------------------|
|-0--3--------------------------|

|-----------------------------------7-10--|
|-------------------------8-10-11---------|
|--------------------7-9------------------|
|-------------7-8-9-----------------------|
|-------7-10------------------------------|
|-7-10------------------------------------|


before i go on to post more, i have to check if that is infact what you're looking for, if so ill be glad to add the others.

[Matty22]

as wjp01908 said to me, in my post about blues (dont get me started on it ) in this thread Silly Blues Questions

A/// A/// A/// A///
D/// D/// A/// A///
E/// D/// A/// E///
is a typical blues progression....
which translates into
I///I///I///I///
IV///IV///I///I///
V///IV///I///IV///

which is a I, IV, V progression (god i feel celver sayin that , and i bet ive typoed something and made a complete idiot outa meself) so yer can swap that to any key you wish (any key? wheres the any key, god help me)

[Matty22]

id feel a lot cleverer, if i hadda spelt clever right :s. and if i hadda mention that was 12 bar blues...

Eh, cant win em all

[dougp23]

My first lesson with a guitar teacher, he showed me 12 Bar Blues. It's pretty easy to get started on (though my pinky is not liking holding that string down!) Sounds nice, not too hard to play (i've only been at this a week, so I still mess it up now and again. And I'm SSSLLLOOOWWWW to move from fret to fret, so it doesn't sound that great!)

[AX7221]

Here's a blues shuffle, each one is a measure in 4/4 time

I
e|--------------------------
b|--------------------------
g|--------------------------
d|--------------------------
a|-2--2--4--4--2--2--4--4--
E|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--

IV
e|--------------------------
b|--------------------------
g|--------------------------
d|-2--2--4--4--2--2--4--4--
a|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--
E|--------------------------

V
e|--------------------------
b|--------------------------
g|--------------------------
d|-4--4--6--6--4--4--6--6--
a|-2--2--2--2--2--2--2--2--
E|--------------------------

Turnaround
e|------------------------------------------------
b|------------------------------------------------
g|------------------------------------------------
d|------------------------------------------------
a|-2--2--4--4--5--5--4--4--2--2--4--2--2-2-2-2--
E|-0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0-0-0-0--

i have the rhythm here: Traditional Blues Riff

[kev374]

thanks.

how about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YL_tc2NnK8

[Kirk Lorange]

Originally Posted by Matty22

id feel a lot cleverer, if i hadda spelt clever right ...

[cshude]

Originally Posted by Matty22

id feel a lot cleverer, if i hadda spelt clever right :s.

And even more clever had you used proper grammar this time, eh?

[allthumbs]

Originally Posted by cshude

And even more clever had you used proper grammar this time, eh?

I would feel better if I had noticed the spelling or the grammer. Doh.

[Matty22]

Hey, my gramma's got nothin to do with this, she's a lovely old lady

[cshude]

lol

[skinnybloke]

Originally Posted by Matty22

Hey, my gramma's got nothin to do with this, she's a lovely old lady

Clever

[PMM]

There are quite a few simple "blues progressions" you can pick up from books on blues bass guitar. Take for example a song like "Tore Down". The bass line in that song is used quite a few blues songs.

Here's a bit of it:

Intro
G|----------------------------55-33-------55-33----|
D|----55-33-------33-11-------------55----------55-|
A|----------55----------31-33----------33----------|
E|-33----------11----------------------------------|

[PhilUSAFRet]

Play the Blues @ http://truefire.com/playbluesguitar/index.html