Delta Blues Guitar Lesson - Part 3 - Canned Heat Blues/Tommy Johnson


Published on 27 January 2016
TAB is part of my "Lesson Pack Tabs" Volume 1 Only €7.50 for 10 tabs, with videolessons http://www.daddystovepipe.com /guitar-lesson-pack-tabs-volume-1.php">http://www.daddystovepipe.com /guitar-lesson-pack-tabs-volume-1.php http://www.daddystovepipe.com For those who rather play than sing I made an instrumental version of Canned Heat. I'm using the basic features of the song and add a lot of licks and ideas of other bluesmen like Lonnie Johnson, Baby Tate and Scrapper Blackwell. The first verse is like the intro we've seen in the lesson part 1 but I added a little more bounce. The second verse, this is where the explanation starts in this video, is based on the playing behind the singing but I substituted several sections with some alternate chords. The third verse is based on a typical Lonnie Johnson bass solo; many of his solo recordings between 1927-32 have such a solo. The fourth verse uses a few modern ideas like a little boogie. The fifth verse uses the ascending lick Tommy Johnson uses in Big Road Blues; I'm ending with a typical Lonnie Johnson endtag. The 4th and 5th verse are explained in the next video (Part 4)