Thursday, June 3, 2010

12 Bar Blues\b\b\b\b\bCountry?

....the hell?

So, Justin's course - I'm at the Rhythm Guitar stage where I'm learning about the Blues Shuffle.  Awesome.  Basic 12 bar blues progressions.  Awesome.  Got three of them down - A, G & E (E has the B chord in it a couple of times - I don't know B yet, so I'm substituting D, and it sounds all right, but that's the only thing I'm fudging).

The problem is, it doesn't sound really bluesey...  It sownds laak aye play BOWTH kands a musac - Country AND Western.

DO NOT WANT

Hopefully it will sound better through the electric - it just sounds so...  so...  TWANGIE through the acoustic.  It is very much lacking in the awesome.  It could also be that I just replaced the strings - da gunk makes da funk, as I've been told, and these strings have zero gunk right now.

Anyways, I don't know what the problem there is, other than hearing it and thinking - wow, country.

In other news, Robyn and I are getting together and having a jam session this weekend.  Don't know where yet, but probably at my place, since we have AC and apparently hers is currently located underneath pigeon nesting facilities.  I guess she transcribed that finger picking stuff that we were doing last time, which is awesome - it sounds wicked awesome and cool.  Can't wait.

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