NOTICE TO ALL GUITAR PLAYERS(and bassists too): Get your chops up son! You need to shed!

[The Blue Method]

Okay, so I don't go to that many open mic jam sessions. I'm a professional and therefore don't really need to for sake of having someplace to perform. I do wanna start doing more, but its for a different reason which is a topic for another discussion. Anyway, when I go to these things, I sit back and listen to the skill of the musicians playing. Usually cats are not that good and they're playing some simple chord progession and not listening to eachother very well and basically "CLAMMIN' UP DA JOINT!" as Buddy Rich used to say. (look up: "Buddy Rich chews out his band." on youtube. Its awesome!) So, I figure, if I'm gonna get up there and sing...I might as well do a basic 12-bar blues. I mean, everyone can play a 12-bar blues....right? Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Everyone SHOULD be able to play a 12-bar blues in any scale! Isn't that one of the first things you learn as a string player???

Listen up! Get it together! You had better learn how to play the most basic chord progessions if you plan to do any kind of professional pick-up gigs. Now I don't know how to tell you how, because I don't play guitar or bass. So, I'm giving you a website ( http://www.howtoplayblues.com/main.php?e=&l=&r=0) that you can go to and the guy has a course you can order on dvd, but I think there's lots of free info too and speakin' of FREE, there's tons of stuff on youTube that will show you how to play a basic blues. And I've got a B.B.King video in "MY VIDEOS".

So...................the next time I come out to a jam session, and you can't play the blues...I'm gonna take a massive crap all over you in public! Oh, that shit is happening!

[The Blue Method]

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