ULTIMATE BLUES PRIMER

September 24, 2006

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The Ultimate Blues Primer

In this blues guitar lesson are going to look at a Cross Roads Type Riff. Eric Clapton perhaps has made this type riff very popular in "Crossroads" but it has been around for quite a while.

Here is the band with the Riff tabbed below

E Blues with Riff MP3 - Right Click and Save
This file is compressed. The actual file on the DVD will sound even better.

The Chords go like this ( 4 Beats Each):

E Major	E Major	E Major	E Major
A Major	A Major
E Major	E Major
B Major	A Major
E Major	E Major

The Tab for the basic riff is here:

1st 4 bars in E Play this twice
E----------------------------------------
B----------------------------------------
G----------------------------------------
D----22--2-------------22--2-------------
A-----------5---2-------------5---2------
E-------------------3-----------------3--
*****11**1**4***1***2**11**1**4***1***2**fingers

Play this over the A chord:

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----22--2--------------22---2------------
-----------5---2---------------5---2-----
-------------------3------------------3--
-----------------------------------------
****11**1**4***1***2***11***1**4***1**2**fingers

Play this when we go back to the E chord

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----------------------------------------
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----22--2-------------22--2-------------
-----------5---2-------------5---2------
-------------------3-----------------3--
****11**1**4***1***2**11**1**4***1***2**fingers

Now for the Turn around on the B7 Chord Use this form :

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------------1---------------------------
----0-1-2------222--0-------------------
------------------------3---0-----------

Next week we will work on the Turn arounds

Here is the band with the Riff tabbed above

E Blues with Riff MP3 - Right Click and Save
This file is compressed. The actual file on the DVD will sound even better.