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Minor Blues Rhythm & Lead (Patreon)

Published:
2019-10-18 13:29:51
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2025-12-03 09:07:57
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Greetings all! I've gone all tasteful this week with video that looks at the minor blues. In particular the focus of this lesson is on how to combine rhythm and lead guitar in the same piece. This is a really fun skill to develop and sounds particularly good if you're playing on your own or in a band with no rhythm player. Here's a link to the video:

https://youtu.be/8X9BL2h3hOY

I've tabbed everything out below (PDF and Guitar Pro file). I've also put together a backing track: there are six 12 bar choruses, so you'll be able to play the entire piece 3 times. You can of course just jam along and improvise your own ideas in B minor.  There's a 2 bar count in, and you'll need to come in on beat 4 of the second bar with the pickup phrase.

Enjoy learning it! Speak next Friday,

Adrian

Comments

David Parker

Hi AdrianNew to this page. I'm really enjoying working my way through this lesson. Thank you so much for all the hard work you must have put into making such a comprehensive video lesson.

MjL

What a fantastic piece. Your comments about getting back to the wierd stuff made me think of a bluesy piece those of us of a certain era would hear every night before John Peel started playing the weird (and often awful) stuff. His theme music was (and I had to look this up) Pickin the Blues by Grinderswitch. Maybe one for a lesson? Variations on a shuffle rhythm part, a bit of slide…. Could do a bit of a gear thing on using a looper to put down the backing track.. Then back to the Bauhaus, Banshees or BowWowWow!!!

anyonecanplayguitar

Yes, love this piece but don't know what it was called. A definite contender for a lesson! And a few people have requested I look at some BowWowWow - will see what I can do.

Colin Sibthorpe

Hi Adrian, I loved this lesson and really felt it helped with my blues development, I play mostly on my own so found it very beneficial. Thank you for sharing.

mike Iris

I just love it! I've been looking for help with this lead rhythm technique. Its my idea of how blues should be played. Thank you Adrian

B Roddick

This is fantastic. I started learning it... then got carried away doing my own thing with it... but I'm going to learn it as it is too, as there are some nice licks in there!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Mike. Glad you liked this video. And thanks for you support here - much appreciated!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks - glad you liked it! Yes, feel free to take what you need from it and adapt it to your own purposes, it's not fixed.

Richard Walker

Hello Adrian joined up today as I have been using your lessons to try and get my playing more fluid , you seem to be one of the only ones that covers this type of playing which I have difficulty with.

Richard Walker

Meant to say Thanks and the tabs and tracks are much appreciated for practice Regards Richard

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi Richard. Good to have you here! Thanks a lot for signing up. Hope you continue to enjoy and learn from the lessons.

David Bullivant

Thanks for putting this one together for those of us trying to get a grip on the some more jazzy blues techniques. The format of this tune is a great one for developing better timing and the turnaround (measure 10) in both verses had me exercising my theory “chops “...... I soon decided to settle on the G7 chord as a tritone sub for C#7 and found the different approaches used in each verse over this chord very educational. My take away was that in both cases the combination of the G7 chord tones combined with firstly the tonic Blues scale and secondly the with the G7 arpeggio both ended up implying a C# Altered scale; a refreshing step outside the minor pentatonic we all love. I would be interested in your comment re those measures, sorry for getting a bit long winded.

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi David. Yes, that makes sense. The #V to V move you often get in a minor blues definitely feels like a II V I with a b5 of the II chord to me. Lots of ways you can approach this. For this piece I didn't get too out there with the jazzy stuff as I wanted an overall blues sound. But you could certainly experiment with both G7 and C#7 arpeggios and try blending that in with blues scale stuff. The b5 sub is a good way of accessing some of those altered scale notes. Love the way people like Larry Carlton can do all this sophisticated stuff but still sound melodic and bluesy.

Kal Sidhu

Good lesson but for us geriatrics do i need to buy Guitar Pro?

anyonecanplayguitar

Hi Kal. No Guitar Pro is optional. The music/tab is exactly the same as the PDF. The advantage of Guitar Pro is that you're able to play back the music and change the tempo, meaning it can be a helpful practice tool. If that sounds like something that would be useful then you might like to give Guitar Pro a go - I think there's free demo available.

Kal Sidhu

Thanks, wasn't expecting a reply so soon , much appreciated.

Jason Brown

Love the lesson, searching the site for more like this!

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks Jason. Think I've done 2 or 3 other rhythm and lead style pieces, they should come up in the search.

P Jakobsen

This is a fantastic lesson, discovered on Youtube, and thus causing me to join Patreon as your loyal supporter. That being said, I'm puzzled by the chord progression. Going to 2 dominant chords instead of a minor V chord is a cool but new sound. But, it feels strange to target chord tones in a solo without fully understanding how the chord progression is put together. A great lesson would be an explanation of the theory behind this chord progressions (secondary dominants perhaps?), offering some popular tunes that this progression is based on (for example did BB King or Claptn play it, and if so , what tunes?). And finally, a lesson on how to practice scales over chords in a way that flows niceley through the chords. I know I'm asking too much here, so simply an explanation of the theory behind the progression would be a nice start. Keep up the great work! :)

anyonecanplayguitar

Thanks, glad you enjoyed the lesson! Yes, interesting point about the theory behind the chord progression. I didn't have time to go into too much depth in this particular video, but a separate video on minor blues chords and variations could be an interesting. Although the dominant V chord isn't found in the harmony of the natural minor scale it's actually very common in a minor blues and elsewhere in minor key songs. you can hear it in the Thrill is Gone. You could see it as coming from the harmonic minor scale, which is one scale that will fit over that chord. The #V chord I see as just a chromatic approach to the V. Hope that helps a bit. I may well try and do a proper lesson on this stuff!