The guitar is an amazing instrument, one of my favorite styles of playing is without doubt playing the Blues, it is also one of the healthier ways to express emotions in music, one can even say that it is healing.
In direct contrast to the sound of the blues it is in reality extremely fun to play and not as complex as in other styles so don't be fooled by the gloom and doom of the tone and lyrics for one second.
For both the listener and the musician the blues is one of the few forms of music that will guarantee crowded clubs, packed concert halls, and amazing jam sessions.
It was once said that listening to the blues is healing in itself and if you want to heal someone, play them the blues.
Think about how doctors heal an individual, unfortunately a Doctor can only help only one patient at a time, instead play the blues and have everyone who can hear you feel better by playing a great clean blues riff or awesome heavily distorted riffs.
Now, that's what I call not only therapeutic but "healing".
The blues has a tremendous range of sounds, feeling, emotions, and passion, and individuals have many different connections when you say the word blues.
You can hear the range or variation in the sounds and feeling for instance Robert Johnson who incorporates sounds such as his sparse sounding acoustics or to other people it could be the infectious sound of Muddy Waters playing in a packed club, or to some Zeppelin playing hard rock in a filled stadium, and finally to some the shredding riffs of Hendrix and Steve Ray, either way they are all reflections of the blues style.
You might be amazed to find that as perfect as the blues is for the guitar, it did not come from the guitar instead it came from the distinct, unaccompanied human voice.
Since the inception of music sad songs have always been written and what we know today as American blues, was actually formed back when Africans field worker songs came across and encountered European folk songs.
These African workers used instruments while singing such as the banjo, guitar, fiddles, drums, basses made out of wash basins and harmonicas.
The result of using a variety of these unique instruments helped carve this extraordinary sound.
The sound of the blues! It was once stated by the legendary Muddy Waters "The blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n' roll,"
In direct contrast to the sound of the blues it is in reality extremely fun to play and not as complex as in other styles so don't be fooled by the gloom and doom of the tone and lyrics for one second.
For both the listener and the musician the blues is one of the few forms of music that will guarantee crowded clubs, packed concert halls, and amazing jam sessions.
It was once said that listening to the blues is healing in itself and if you want to heal someone, play them the blues.
Think about how doctors heal an individual, unfortunately a Doctor can only help only one patient at a time, instead play the blues and have everyone who can hear you feel better by playing a great clean blues riff or awesome heavily distorted riffs.
Now, that's what I call not only therapeutic but "healing".
The blues has a tremendous range of sounds, feeling, emotions, and passion, and individuals have many different connections when you say the word blues.
You can hear the range or variation in the sounds and feeling for instance Robert Johnson who incorporates sounds such as his sparse sounding acoustics or to other people it could be the infectious sound of Muddy Waters playing in a packed club, or to some Zeppelin playing hard rock in a filled stadium, and finally to some the shredding riffs of Hendrix and Steve Ray, either way they are all reflections of the blues style.
You might be amazed to find that as perfect as the blues is for the guitar, it did not come from the guitar instead it came from the distinct, unaccompanied human voice.
Since the inception of music sad songs have always been written and what we know today as American blues, was actually formed back when Africans field worker songs came across and encountered European folk songs.
These African workers used instruments while singing such as the banjo, guitar, fiddles, drums, basses made out of wash basins and harmonicas.
The result of using a variety of these unique instruments helped carve this extraordinary sound.
The sound of the blues! It was once stated by the legendary Muddy Waters "The blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n' roll,"