blues guitar?

Question

i need someone to give a a good, easy blues guitar riff.plaese reply with tabs

Answer 1

Try Jimmy Reed or John Lee Hooker

P.S.

Bobby R. -nice smug answer, but he's referring to a style not an instrument!! Before you choose to be obnoxious, perhaps you should make sure you have the capability to comprehend the question. You should also review grammar, punctuation, etc.

Drums R Cool-a hundred points and you're already rude and obnoxious? Try another category, we're polite grownups in the blues section.

Answer 2

The most important thing you need to do is learn the pentatonic scales and memorize them! Listen to lots of blues feel how much emotion they put into each not and try to do the same. Once you know your scales learn how to do slides, bending, tapping, and all the other guitar tricks. blues is not that complex it just sounds that way. Listen to Stevie Ray Vaughn in my opinion he was the greatest blues guitarist to ever live. Listen to his music, he never plays the whole time. Vaughn will hit a chord (usually a 7th chord) and sit on it for a few measures then he will do a short little lick and then come back to the chord. Your improving will sound terrible to begin with but stick with it and keep trying you will get better and be soloing in no time.

Answer 3

I am a blues-rock guitar player, and I am mentioning this right away because I think you should learn the classic riffs, but you should also try and come up with your own. Learn your scales and intervals, listen to the masters and how they play with "taste" (not 100 notes per second for twenty minutes!), and you might be on to something pretty cool. I like to do "on the spot" improvising, but that is still based on heavily rehearsed scale and interval (the distance between the pitches of the notes) patterns. Tablature can help you, but you should try to go beyond that. Good luck!

Answer 4

Agree with Martin. The question was asked sincerely and a nice answer was provided before you two showed up.

I can't play guitar. Someone else is trying to learn more about guitar. What's the problem with that?

If you can't act like an adult, you can't hang with the adults. This is a place I like to visit often because even if there are disagreements, they are not childish- more along the lines of educational.

If you love the blues, feel free to come in and comment but rudness shall not be tolerated.

Answer 5

Agreed, ya can't go wrong with John Lee Hooker.

Forgive my not supplying tabs but, find a way
to get a good listen to the Rolling Stones'
"Fancy Man Blues"!

And keep on playin'...

Answer 6

I learned all my tabs from this site. Try this, theres like Greenday, Pantera, Plain white Tees, Keith Urban, and even Metallica in a real simple way. I am sure there are Blues tabs also. Here, click this. :)

www.azchords.com

Rock on, or Jam on! xD

Answer 7

I would suggest the riff to "Born under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. What a great Blues riff. You can play it as a "Blues Rock" riff, funky or slow. GREAT riff, and it emphasizes the reletive minor relationship of C#m to E Major.

Good Luck!

Kevin Chisholm - American Guitarist

Answer 8

Hey there Martin that's the way to put them down. Just this year I saw BB King in Manchester UK and I'm pretty sure his acoustic blues guitar had a whammy bar. Now if it's good enuff for BB ....

Answer 9

try this 4,4 timing with a triplet feel and tune all your strings down one full step and play the full minor pentatonic scale pattern in its open form

Answer 10

Funky shuffle.