Chords for Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson -Blues Mambo/Rumba Feel like Crosscut Saw

_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _
_ _ [G] _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [F] _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ Hey everyone, Griff Hamlin [Abm] here.
Welcome and thanks for joining me.
I'm going to talk about a blues feel today, [Bb] often called a blues mambo or sometimes I've
heard it called a rumba blues.
Not entirely sure which is completely accurate.
Probably either or both.
But anyway, I usually call it a blues mambo.
It's very common in Messin' with the Kid, the Blues Brothers version, or Crosscut Saw
by Albert King.
So, it's just kind of a really cool feel.
It's really hard to explain what the drums do on this, but it's kind of just a cool,
grooving feel.
It's a lot of fun to solo over.
[Abm] But this is a great little idea that you can play while the vocals are going on, for example.
So let me show you how it goes.
It's the same idea repeated for all three chords, so we're just going to have to learn it [G] once.
Now I'm going to do it in G, but of course you can do it in any key.
And I'm going to start with the low G on the sixth string, and then I'm going to jump up
to the C [C] and D, [Gm] do a hammer-on between the two of them.
That's on the fifth [C] string, the third to the fifth [D] fret.
[F] _ _ [Fm] _ We'll end up at the third fret F of the fourth string.
[C] So one [E] and [D] two and [F] a three, and I'm going to strike that twice.
And a three [Gm] E and.
Come back to the D.
[G] One [C] and [F] two and a three E.
And a [G] four E.
And a _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _
G, [C] _ [F] C, D, F, F, D, [Gm] F, G, [C] third fret, [D] third, [F] fifth, third, fifth, third,
[G] fifth.
[Cm] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _
_ [G] _ [Dm] Two and three [Eb] and four and [Dm] one and two and three [Em] and four and [Dm] one and two, three and
[G] four and one and [C] two, [Dm] three and [Gm] four.
[C] Now when I move it up to the C, I could do it still on the 6th string, but I'm right
here so I'm just going to move it to the 3rd fret of the 5th string.
Everything just translates by one string.
[F] _
_ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ [Ebm] Nothing [F] changes.
[Gm] _
_ [C] _ 1 [Bb] and 2 and [Eb] 3 and 4 and 1 [Gm] and 2 and 3 [C] and 4 and 1.
Back to [Dm] G.
_ _ [G] _ [C] _ _
[Dm] _ And then we [G] go [D] to D.
Again, nothing [Am] changes.
_ _ [D] _ [C] C.
[Bb] _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [N] _ _
And really, that's all there is to it.
You can do that all day long.
[G] If you speed it up.
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ [Ab] Now you'll notice that I do use a little bit of palm mute on my right hand.
If I don't use [G] that, [C] _ [Dm] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ it's a little bit bright.
It's just kind of in your face.
Since I'm usually using this, I'm usually singing over it or there's another vocalist
in the band singing over it, I don't want to get, I don't want to be too brash.
So particularly if I was using the bridge pickup, _ [F] _ [G] I [F] want to keep it down.
[G] _
[Cm] _ _ [F] _ [G] So my palm on my right hand is just lightly laying on those strings right back by the bridge.
[F] _ _ _
[G] _ [C] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ [G] _
_ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _ _ Now sometimes [B] you'll also hear my pickle [Em] hit [Gb] other things.
I've kind of got this constant 16th note feel in mind.
It's at [F] 1 and 2 and 3 and [G] 4 and 1 and [F] 2 and 3.
[G] _ _
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _
[N] In fact, if you turn the sound off, _ this is kind of weird, but if you turn the sound off
and just watch my right hand, you'll notice that it just kind of keeps moving.
It's almost hard to tell when I hit the strings and when I don't.
So _ _ turn the sound off if you want.
I'm going to play it and I'm going to focus in on the right hand and you'll see what I mean.
2, [G] 3, 4.
[F] _ _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _ [Gm] _ _
[C] _ [F] _ [Gm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Dm] _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ If you turn the sound off, that's me telling you it's time to turn it back on.
Anyway, so you see it's all about that groove.
It's getting that right hand going.
Now you don't have to play it anywhere nearly as fast as I did.
Probably about the slowest you'd want to go is about here. _
[C] _ [F] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ [G]
I [Ab] think if you went too much slower than that, you'd have a hard time keeping the groove going.
But it doesn't have to be flying the way I'm doing it.
So I hope you enjoy that video.
And I just went through the standard 12-bar pattern.
So I just did a G, C, and D just straight through a 12-bar blues.
So hopefully you can take a little time and work on it.
I hope you had fun with it and I'll see you in the next [N] video. _