Chords for 12 Bar Blues Guitar Riff II - Guitar Lesson

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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G#] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Hey guys, it's Nate Savage here again and we are going to be going over a way to spice
up and dress up your regular 12 bar blues riff that you probably learned if you've gone
through this whole Quick Start Blues series.
Instead of playing just [C] the typical 12 bar
[E] blues riff _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] throughout your entire 12 bar blues progression, what we're going to do is I'm
going to show you how to add a few extra notes here and there to make it sound a little bit
cooler and to give you some ideas about how to dress this up for yourself and kind of
come up with your own new 12 bar blues riff.
So the basic idea starts out the same.
Put your index finger, we're going to be in the
key of E blues, index finger, second fret [Em] of the A string.
_ [Am] You're going to play that
twice again just like you did for the regular 12 bar blues [E] riff. _
I'm playing the [Em] E, A and
D strings right there, all three of [E] those. _
Playing it twice with a mute in the middle. _ _
Then I'm kind of doing the same thing but here is where it changes a little bit.
I'm
still coming up to the fourth fret with my third finger like you would with a normal
12 bar blues riff. _
But now I'm playing, keeping my finger there and playing the E, A and D
strings still and I'm adding in my index finger's collapsing to get a bar across the bottom
four strings so my G string is fretted on the second fret too and I'm playing that.
So I'm playing all four strings, the bottom four strings when I move to this shape.
[A] _ It
gives you kind of a cool, [Em] a little bit atypical [E] sound for the blues but it's really nice sounding.
So you can hit that twice [A] with a mute in the middle just like you did [Am] the first little
[E] part so you have_
And my bar is already in place back here when I'm playing those
first two _ [G#] strums on the E, A and D strings.
[G] My bar is already on that G as well so I'm
going to hit that then move my third finger to the fourth fret of the A string and play
the bottom four strings those two times.
[A] _ _
Now [D] leave everything where it is and you're going
to put your pinky down on the fifth fret of the A string and play those notes twice,
the bottom four strings now.
[B] _
_ _ _ _ [E] So that's the basic idea for the reassembly.
Do that slowly.
_ [A] _ _ _ [E] _
Then just [C] go back down, take your pinky finger off two [E] more times and _ _ that's pretty much
the entire idea for over the I [G] chord, over the E chord.
Just do that [E] over and over again. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] For the first four measures of the regular [G] 12 bar blues progression.
The only thing you
really have to be conscious of as far as your right hand goes, like I said, is hitting
the bottom three strings for the first [E] time.
_ Then once you switch shapes right here with
this third finger here, make sure you hit all four bottom strings.
[A] _ _ [F#m] _
_ [B] _ Or when you use [E] your
pinky hit all bottom four [F#] strings too.
Now for the IV chord when you move to the A instead
of playing the regular 12 bar blues riff, [A] what _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] you're going to do is you're still going
to have that open A string but instead of just playing the second fret on the D string
you're going to make a bar across all three strings there, across the D, the G and the
B strings.
Make it pretty much like an A chord and you're going to play the A, D, G and [A] B
strings, _ _ _ _ the four middle strings.
So _ _ _ [F#] that's going to be your first two strums with the
mute in [A] the middle.
_ [N] _ Then once you get that, you're going to put your middle finger on
the third fret of the B string and your third finger on the fourth fret of the D string
and play the middle four [A] strings again.
_ _ Put a mute in the middle though. _ _ _
_ Keep those fingers
where they are [F] and then you're going to put your pinky on the fifth fret of the D string
right there [A] for your next little two strums. _ _
_ Lift your pinky up two more times _ [F#] and that's
your entire new riff over your IV chord or your A [G#] chord.
I'll play that slowly for you
and then [A] up to speed too. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _
Now when you go to the V chord in the 12 bar blues progression,
[B] you can either do just a regular riff _ [B] _ _ because you're there [E] for such a short time, it's just
one measure right.
Or like in the intro sequence when I was playing at the beginning of this
video, I just went to a [G] B7 [B] chord _ _ _ and just did a little bit of finger picking.
Do whatever
you like there or try to come up with your own little thing.
In the tab, I'll probably
just put a regular 12 bar blues in _ there or either just the B7 chord. _
_ _ _ So that's just [G] how
you can spice up your 12 bar blues riff throughout your 12 bar blues progression over the I,
IV and V chord.
Now let me play just a really simple example of exactly what I just showed
you for the I, IV and V just so you can get an idea of how to loop it together.
If it's
going a little bit too fast for you, don't worry.
You can always look at the tab.
Here we go.
_ [E] _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ So like I said, that's just a nice basic way to give a little bit more life to your 12
bar blues riff.
If you're having trouble getting through this, don't be afraid to go back and
watch the lesson on the 12 bar blues progression and the regular 12 bar blues riff and get
that down before you try this again.
See you next time, guys. _ _ _ _
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