Blues Guitar's Influence On Popular Music
There's a line from an old blues song that says, "the blues had a baby...and they called it rock n' roll."
Let me tell you, there is so much truth to that line! You can listen to all the first rock n' roll songs and learn the blues guitar riffs, chord progressions and scales being played, just in a less bluesy kinda way.
"Johnny B. Good" is a great example of a blues guitar progression being played with a rock drum beat and a vocal melody that is new from how a typical blues melody would sound. It doesn't stop there though. The influence on modern music is nonetheless very dominant. We hear it in hiphop, rock music,metal, indie, emo, reggae, rhythm and blues etc
The ever so popular 1 - 4 - 5 chord progression (3 chords) that is used in blues is also used in almost All type of music that exists. Even Beethovan uses this chord progression as well as many others from the classical period. Not only do blues guitar licks and chord progressions gets played in modern music, but virtually all guitar solos also have blues overtones in country music as well as the other styles that I mentioned. It has been a Essential factor in molding the shape sound of modern music no matter how you look at it.
Learning how to play blues music should be a top priority on any guitar players 'to-do' list. Once you learn the ins and outs of this style, you can manipulate it to create your own modern songs, riffs and/or solos. Many guitar players that I know improvise on the blues scale to produce their main riffs and super spectacular leads as well as use the chord progressions to write radical, more modern music.
Don't allow anybody convince you that the blues is dead!
Let me tell you, there is so much truth to that line! You can listen to all the first rock n' roll songs and learn the blues guitar riffs, chord progressions and scales being played, just in a less bluesy kinda way.
"Johnny B. Good" is a great example of a blues guitar progression being played with a rock drum beat and a vocal melody that is new from how a typical blues melody would sound. It doesn't stop there though. The influence on modern music is nonetheless very dominant. We hear it in hiphop, rock music,metal, indie, emo, reggae, rhythm and blues etc
The ever so popular 1 - 4 - 5 chord progression (3 chords) that is used in blues is also used in almost All type of music that exists. Even Beethovan uses this chord progression as well as many others from the classical period. Not only do blues guitar licks and chord progressions gets played in modern music, but virtually all guitar solos also have blues overtones in country music as well as the other styles that I mentioned. It has been a Essential factor in molding the shape sound of modern music no matter how you look at it.
Learning how to play blues music should be a top priority on any guitar players 'to-do' list. Once you learn the ins and outs of this style, you can manipulate it to create your own modern songs, riffs and/or solos. Many guitar players that I know improvise on the blues scale to produce their main riffs and super spectacular leads as well as use the chord progressions to write radical, more modern music.
Don't allow anybody convince you that the blues is dead!
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