Let me just come clean and admit our family's not exactly spending the quarantine teaching ourselves conversational Latin or putting together a professional mandolin orchestra. Last weekend, the big kerfuffle was over whether or not to screen Jumanji: The Next Level. My son declined to participate, on the grounds that it was a sequel. Sequels, he opined, are worthless, so why spend ninety non-recoupable minutes on such an obvious waste of his valuable time?
He's not alone in this opinion, so I hesitate to categorize today's lesson as a sequel to last weekend's Youtube live stream. Let's call it the third installment, or better yet, the third part of the trilogy, with all the triumphant conclusiveness that implies. In
What To Work On, the third lesson in my three-part series on playing better instrumental blues guitar, I discuss the five stages of learning fingerstyle blues. Specifically, I use the eight-bar blues "Trouble In Mind" in the key of A to demonstrate how to:
- strengthen your right-hand coordination, or groove
- find voicings up the neck to support the melody
- begin developing a multi-chorus arrangement, complete with intro and vamp
- start improvising, changing up just two measures of the song at a time
You can watch the lesson at the link below, and download the accompanying tab as well:
What To Work OnMore soon,
David
