Learn Every Blues Song Ever in 8 Minutes Video Lecture | Guitar: Become a Pro (English) - Music

nothing really says blues music like a
white guy wearing a linen shirt and
chambray Tom's but that doesn't mean I
can't feel the Blues in my soul and I'm
going to teach you how to play it
basically every blues song ever in just
a few short minutes so we're going to
start by brooding a chord on the fifth
fret of the low E string so right here
we're going to make a shape out of that
now what I mean by a shape is this so
we're going to start one corner of the
shape is going to be on five low E
string play it two times right we're
gonna skip two strings to the D string
an octave which is the seventh fret of
the D string two times again so this is
going to be another corner of the shape
we're gonna back up two frets on the
same string start on five do you play
that twice and then finish it finish the
shape on the seventh fret of the
a-string right here so four corners of a
shape so you can see that shape right
there now this is a movable shape so you
can play any song with this shape by
moving it up or down so we're just doing
it on the fifth fret of the e-string
which is an a so this is gonna be the
blues in a if we were to do it up it
would be a sharp or B flat we do the
exact same shape so all this is movable
right so basically we're going to repeat
this pattern of this shape four times in
a row so one two three four are gonna
take the same shape and move it down a
string so everything moves down the
string
I really gonna do that two times right
now we're gonna go back to the first
shape which is the same shape but on the
first fire so so that's that shape on
the first space two more times so we've
got the shape on the first position four
times down a swing two times back up a
string two times now we're gonna move
that same shape down two frets so
rooting it on 7a just one time back to
the second position one time back to the
first position two times so we have one
shape that we're moving around in three
different spots
it's like formula now to communicate
this better it's better to use words
that other musicians will understand so
instead of saying one time around on one
shape it's going to be 1 bar this is
four beats usually music for beats you
pull the bar so one and two and three
and four and so one time around is going
to be one bar so we have four bars of
the first shape two bars of the second
shape two bars of the first shape one
bar of the third shape one bar of the
second shape and two bars of the first
shape now you can be infinitely creative
with all these different things and
we're going to start by replacing those
last two bars with what's called a
turnaround okay so I'm going to skip to
the ninth bar of the song which is
and then we usually have two more of the
first shape right but it can get kind of
boring if you repeat that too often so
what we're gonna do is we're gonna
replace the two bars the final two bars
in the whole progression with what's
called the turnaround and you can really
do anything you want creatively with
this bar but I'll give you a one right
here so sounds like this okay now all I
did is I want five years 2 times 4 a 5 a
6 a.m. 7 7 and then this cord right so
this is a 7 chord I'm this is the e the
7th in the nation because it uses ISA
I've got 7 a 67 G so the turnaround so
I'm gonna do the whole thing and on the
side we're going to count off how many
of each one is going through so we have
4 bars of the first shape 1 2 3 4 down a
string 1 2 up a string 3 4 4 more bars
to go 1 of this shape 1 of this shape
and then the turnaround which lasts 2
bars so a better way to communicate this
instead of using first shape second
shape third shape is by using numbers
and the way we use numbers is where they
are relative to the major scale right so
we have 3 root notes with these shapes
that happen on the fifth fret on the E
string and the 5th fret on the a string
and the 7th fret on the a string now
since this is our main root note right
here where we start we're gonna play the
major scale 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 so this
would be 1 2 3 4 number 4 is where we
routed the second shape and number 5
is where rooted the third shape so a
better way to say it would be I'm going
to play four bars of one the one chord
the one kind of riff I'm going to play
two bars of four and two bars of one
then I'm going to have one bar of five
one bar of four and two bars of one or
the turnaround can replace the two bars
of one now it doesn't have to be this
pattern it can be anything it can be a
single note you could play four bars of
one note one two three and now to string
I'm playing the four chord even though
it's just being represented by a single
note I'm still playing the four chord
the fourth note however you want to look
at it and then back up a string then to
the 5/4 and then back to the one and
again like I said before you can use
this anywhere you can do it in G which
is the third front of the E string just
give me four bars of this G one do you
play all four one
- and then I have to go to the four
chord which if G is 1 G ABC then I'd go
to a C so then 2 bars to C one two back
to G and now live away from Jiji ABCD go
to the five go to the D so play the
order one two one two so again this is
really just the underlying framework of
almost any blues song now it doesn't
have to be twelve bars it's called the
twelve bar blues it can be eight bars if
you wanted it to be if you wanted to
shorten the whole length of the entire
thing one common way to do that would be
take one bar of one right down to the
four bar four and back to one and then
go to the five four and the turnaround
that would be an eight bar blues
progression some are sixteen but as long
as you know the underlying framework of
how to organize these things you can do
anything you don't always have to use
the one before on the five you could use
like the 1 the 3 and the 5 like I could
just do like a bar of 1 2 & 3
okay right like 1 2 3 and the major
scale really it again that's why this is
every blues song because they all kind
of follow this underlying framework and
once you understand that you can start
substituting things in and out and
eventually your ear will get better this
isn't just blues music like in pop music
rock rock music metal country everything
a lot of songs you'll notice will repeat
something down a string and then repeats
something else in a different area and
that all kind of comes from the 12-bar
blues so once you really understand how
this works your ears going to develop
and you're going to hear these changes
in different songs and then you can use
them to your own writing and be creative
and just replace them with anything you
want