The Friendly 12bar Blues Guitar Forum

I learned by listening and playing to Blues songs, like most of the Blues player once did. Clapton called it woodshedding, playing stock phrases over and over and doing variations. :music2: I do have some Blues books, too, but to be honest I don't use them much. Unfortunately I don't practice enough...

Great selection!
Searched for Little Al and found them playing - in Chicago at BG Legends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCnMO0tJLiA

Maybe I'll be there in May...

What are you listening to?
Any special song that got you to the Blues?

I was late, too, but I'm glad I did it. So much fun to play!

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Still on the funky side...

There seems to be a synch problem at around 1:50, how many takes including backing?

Thanks Mike! The tutorial is about 20 years old, I wrote down what I learned and discovered while trying to tab the songs. There's no need nowadays to get all the books I mentioned, most of this stuff is on the net somewhere, including some great (and some really bad) tutorials on Youtube. Anyway, k...

fenson wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:00 pm

'bout the 12bar site, since I'm using the latest firefox, a warning message appears each time I'm logging in...
Easy to dismiss but may be it's better you kow that?

Can you post a screenshot? I'm using FF, too, latest version, without any errors...

I'm sure he knows...
Funny because to my ear there are rather too less highs...

My son, the one man band... drums, guitar, keys, vocal. And lyrics.
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531556/w ... meta-level

Blues for a grapefruit moon in a purple sky

Couldn't describe it better...
Nice relaxed jazz Blues!

fenson wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:30 pm

Specially with this tune, as the goal was just to capture the sound of the guitar directly out from the amp.

Sure good gear, but your setting has a very "acoustic" (rather than electric) sound.

The playing and sound is again at highest level.
Carlos and John sure would like it!

Thanks! :shy: It’s a lot of fun to add the backing instruments, and modern DAW software is making it easier, Oh, yes! So many possibilities to try, you can spend hours and hours to get what you want. I was familiar with the sounds of my Ignite software, but it doesn't work with other DAWs, so I had/...

I enjoyed JLH from the first day I heard him - he brought me to the Blues with his album The Healer. I got all his records, I even play the same guitar, without pick, sure. :pray: To me he was the Blues in person. No fancy chords or notes, just his voice and his Sheraton. I'll try to visit his place...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mauaTFEDKC0 The usual boring :lol: video from where I live, this time hiking around the "Eternal lake" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewiges_Meer ). Very simple, just a repeating picking pattern, some guitar notes and playing over different VST instruments with my mi...

Sounds like Garageband is a great tool for your one man band! :clap: Well done! :dance: After searching for a while I currently try Reaper and it seems to have all I need, easy to work with, better MIDI support than Audition, better VST(i) support than Audacity and no license server that can be swit...

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Very funky indeed, not an easy listen...

Did you play all instruments?