As many of you guys know, Friday’s can be especially inspirational…here’s some noodling to a blues backing track in A, love to know what you think.
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Love the sound of a Fender Stratocaster through Fender Deluxe Reissue, and oh that Am groove…
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This one just came to me after turning on the Strat and Fender Deluxe for some ‘alone time’ yesterday afternoon.
Turned out pretty well, seems like that practicing really does pay off in the end 🙂
What do you guys think?
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What do you guys think of this one?
Slowly getting my voice into shape and looking forward to putting out some more powerful blues guitar songs for you to listen to…
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Filed under blues guitar, Jeff Smith by on Jul 10th, 2013. Comment.
Absolutely love the key of B and nothing beats a slow blues in Bm – there’s something about it being peaceful and soothing at the same time as powerful and uplifting.
Here’s a track I cut this afternoon that I have called “Slow Burn Blues” because it sizzles along to this solid backing track.
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Oh yes, stuck a couple of lines of voice in there too…off the top of my head, will have to sit down and put something meaningful together for the next rendition.
Filed under blues guitar, Jeff Smith by on Jul 4th, 2013. Comment.
Nothing feels as natural to me as playing along with a blues shuffle, here’s some playing from earlier today…enjoy!
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Always enjoy hearing your feedback, so leave me a comment.
Jeff
Filed under blues guitar, Jeff Smith, texas blues by on Jul 1st, 2013. Comment.
Started recording some stuff this afternoon, intended on laying down a clean version of Freddi King’s Hideaway on my recently purchased Blues Deluxe Amp, but it just wasn’t happening. Then I ended up in this G Blues Shuffle that sounds not bad – a few mistakes along the way, but not a bad version – what do you think?
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Here’s a funky little blues guitar shuffle in E I put together earlier today…this is my Stratocaster played through an older Fender “The Twin” amp with a Blue Daddy Goudie FX box boosting the gain and tone notch.
I played this with my fingers so I could gets some simultaneous base line walking with fills as I went…sounds pretty good for no backing.
This entire song is played in the open E position with a walking base line in E that looks like E-G-B-C-E played with my thumb while my bottom second and third finger played the higher E and B strings of the E-cord – same position but moved to A and then finishing in the V position of the I-IV-V blues progression on B back down to A and back to E.
The fills are various E blues scale fills including some open string type stuff that you may find Freddie King cooking up on Hideway and such.
What do you think?
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Leave a comment, love to hear from you guys.
Filed under Jeff Smith by on Jul 8th, 2012. Comment.
