Thread: Guitar Showdown Anyone?

Oh no.. the Blues.. (sob).. one of my most-loathed genres.. (I know I'm a philistine).. but in the spirit of the thread, I'll give it a go.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Oh no.. the Blues.. (sob).. one of my most-loathed genres.. (I know I'm a philistine).. but in the spirit of the thread, I'll give it a go.

Don't think about this as a limiting thing. Recognize that the Blues is the basis for the vast majority of what went on to become Rock, Jazz, Pop, Funk and more.

It's easy to fall into the trap of "hearing" the blues as only something like Crosroads. Open that up... you can do all power chords with no thirds and have a total Ritchie Blackmore rip with it. You can mellow it out a bit, shift back to the six before the four and have do-wop. You can do a Imaj7 vim7 iim7 V7 and have a jazz standard. You can do im7 ivm7 vm7 and be doing a BB King minor blues rip. You can use open first-position major and suspended chords and be playing folk. You can go to an open tuning, slap a slide on your pinkie and be playing C&W.

The Blues is the foundation, man. Find something you like that is rooted in I IV V and have at it!

Oh, I can play the blues, pj, and I do appreciate all the derivations, and I will give it a go, but.. my reading of LS's rules this week would seem to disallow slide guitar (which was my first thought). Maybe I've got it wrong? If I have, I'll do a slide piece, I think.

I don't see anything about no slides.

Originally Posted by Oneiro

Oh, I can play the blues, pj, and I do appreciate all the derivations, and I will give it a go, but.. my reading of LS's rules this week would seem to disallow slide guitar (which was my first thought). Maybe I've got it wrong? If I have, I'll do a slide piece, I think.

To be honest with you, anything is fine as long as it fits the rules and does not give you an advantage above others.

I want this to be fair, and not everyone is good at slide guitar. I'd like to say no because i feel that it could potentially give you an advantage, this particular task is pointed at improving peoples skills in transitioning between chords and solo improvisation. It could be interesting, don't worry about not doing well, if it will make you feel any better, i am actually not good at transitioning between chords and soloing and i'm going to have to learn how to do it fluidly over the next few days.

But as long as it doesn't give you a BIG advantage in terms of adding and improving your performance dramitcally, then yes, you can do it. If it helps you then yeah, i want us to do our bests in this, but i don't want any unfair odds among others. But it sounds okay to me.

Does that sound alright with you?

Okay LS.. I have played loads of slide, so this week I won't play it. I'll try to go between chords and lead without using a slide. Gonna be tricky, but I'll have a bash.

I won't be partaking this week because of my damn mac breaking

I'm really pissed about this one because this was one i really wanted to do as well.

Best of luck with your entries.

You're the boss - you could postpone it and substitute something else for this week!