Blues is the sort of music that people long back in the 19th century and 20th century used for getting rid of their deepness, by expressing their emotions through music. The African slaves and their relatives in South America had built up the African and European combination of music which included serenades, melodies related to their day to day life. People in slave and their youngsters were allowed to produce their own life songs when they are depressed and tired from the day they sang harder songs. Blues artists were additionally allowed to explore different lines of approaches as blues music diversion. The outcome was that the imaginative advancement of the blues was to a great extent in the form of live performances, an act of spontaneity. While the melodic and expressive idea of blues tunes kept on advancing all through the 20th century, it has been educated and impacted by the early blues musicians.
Blues music sounds have a typical set of notions attached to it. Earlier the artists required to set their own chords and lyrics for their performances, no standardization of tunes were available. But today artists are gaining their interest in this genre of music and have 12 bar blues theory, which was developed in the 1920’s.12 bar blues chords are much famous and favorites of blues musicians. This genre of music often uses 9 bars or 11 bars formations. It also uses chords of 7, wherein E7, A7 and B7 are often used in this genre of music. Blues music in guitar needs two basic learning i.e. blues leads and rhythms. Generally, blues rhythms are in 4/4 time signature which includes 4 beats per measure. To play a single – single notes on guitar is all about leads. Generally, the artists add riffs with the solo leads to make blues music sound well. Lead solo is the best chance for guitarists to showcase their talent whereas by using riffs guitarists add extra beauty to any piece of music. Adding extra beauty means adding own riffs to different chords structures of various songs like in happy for you jayda chords, kunto aji pilu membiru chords, etc. One should remember that to make the song sound more like blues music, not only 12 bar theory but own creativity will also make it sound amazing.
For basic learning, one must understand about blues music is blues scales. If it’s in key of E it includes E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A#B,C,C#,D,D#,E. These 12 notes are transferable according to the root note. If one starts with the root note, the scale will also start with the key of C, accordingly one has to start now with 8th fret. The minor pentatonic scale which includes one flat, three, four, five, flat seven, one. This is a scale of 5 notes in total. In the key of C, it starts from 8th fret and includes C, Eb, F, G, Bb, C. This scale is very famous in blues music.
Blues music is very rich genre of music on guitar compared to other string instruments like violin, viola, cello. This genre of music was evolved from deep feelings of people so we feel that the songs of blues music are directly connecting to our lives. We all have faced some or the other struggle in our lives, blues music is the expression of deepness one has felt throughout his/her life.