Roots Of Blues Music
Sep 24, 2011 blues music
The Blues Can Beat The Blues. By: Rick Washbrook
THE BLUES CAN BEAT THE BLUES
I do my best to address your needs and direct you in advancing at a fast pace. All I ask is after we develop a comfort zone between us, that you trust me in teaching you and guiding you. Let me take you through the curriculum. This does not mean I don’t have an open mind to all your interests you share and bring to every lesson. This is the coal that feeds the fire.
Music is healing. Playing guitar is your personal type of meditation. You are the only one who can talk to your soul. You can beat the blues with the blues just by getting in touch with your own way of learning, feeling comfortable in your own skin. Great things can come from the blues. Center your energy into your guitar when you need that time alone.
In my blues guitar lessons, we learn about the blues guitarists of our past. We study picking techniques, playing by ear and slide guitar methods to obtain accurate licks, string bends, methods for great vibratos, getting a good sound on fender tube amplifiers, guitar tricks, methods on learning the five blues’ scales positions by using trigger licks, phrasing and building up a slow solo and mastering the turn around for all kind a feelings.
When beating the blues with the blues, the guitar can be your hobby or your profession. Either way, it gives your mind a break. When you are looking forward to a guitar lesson each week, it is constructive and helps you detach from negative feelings that may be pent up. Blues is testifying, yes, testifying and
releasing. I have been playing guitar for 38 years. I don’t know what I would have done without playing the blues.
I encourage you to come over for a lesson. Bring your acoustic or electric and jam and meet. I promise I can help you advance as a blues guitarist.
Internet lessons are great and there is so much to learn, but nothing beats learning from an instructor face to face. They are observing what you’re are doing and how you are interpreting the lessons. That is the magic, interaction is the real deal.
Music brings hope and comfort in the darkest of times, in the after midnight hours. Blues guitar helps you find solace away from
the ups and downs of life.
You will find the roots of the blues in the Mississippi Delta. It is a very poor area and the center of the blues, where it all began and spread throughout America. Back in the day, they felt the blues in a way we know nothing about. The blues then were songs of oppression and poverty in the south. While our problems today may be for entirely different reasons, the blues idiom will last
forever. Just don’t forget to give respect to the ones that first laid it on down for us.
There are a lot of fun blues song about gettin’ woman and booze, bar room brawls, and I caught you with my woman. They are the fun side of the blues.
The real root of blues are songs like “See That My Grave is Kept Clean”—a great song by Blind Lemon Jefferson. Led Zeppelin stole a few hooks from that one, and you got to love it. Good for them!
Songs like “I feel like going home”. Going home, gettin’ relief from that
overwhelming pain, and dying. by: Muddy Waters.
Blues speaks of regret and upset but it brings joy cause you testify, it
doesn’t neglect the joy in life. If anything it encourages one to find joy
and the reason to live on in life.
It is such a paradox. It is saying one thing, and kinda feels
contradicting. This is wisdom of life, and living life. You don’t know
your up until your down, and you don’t know your down, till your up. And
one day with hope from your God, your ups and downs
get closer. Not as high and not as low. The blues can beat the blues.
I want to leave you feelin’ good with one of my songs. I want you to sing
along
The Blues Can Beat The Blues.
Verse 1
The blues can beat the blues
We all don’t want to leave sad
We want to flip the coin to the happy side
And let you testify and take away the bad
Chorus
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Verse 2
The blues can beat the blues
buddy wailed as a little boy for you all night
A little sip of wine he spit out for you
and he make you all feel alright
Chorus
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Bridge
Now take a little bit of soul, cause soul is all we got.
Take a little drink of corn juice, from grandmas cupboard
Take each others hands, and smile like a happy train,rollin’down the track
We got our chance tonight, the blues beats the blues
It aint’ a never comin’ back
Verse 3
The blues can beat the blues
When all those woman are talkin’ mean
I’ve got my chance to show a woman
A good man never should be taking that misery
verse 4
The blues can beat the blues
when we all testify and clap our hands
Don’t want talking about sniffing, and the needles hiden’ in your hat
Lets be happy and shout about our troubles, cause aint’ it a fact
Verse 5
The blues can beat the blues
We all don’t want to leave sad
We want to flip the coin to the happy side
And let you testify and take away the bad
Chorus
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
Oh lord lord lorde lorde’o
The blues can beat the blues
By: Rick Washbrook ( Article & lyrics)
September 13th, 2010
THE BLUES CAN BEAT THE BLUES
About the Author
I am Rick Washbrook. I have been playing for 38 years. I don’t know what I would have done without playing the blues. I encourage you to come on over for a lesson. Bring your acoustic, or your electric. Jam and meet, see if we jive. I can help you advance as a blues guitarist. Thats a promise. I was awarded in 1998 the top Blues Guitarist & Blues band the “Warriors” at the Canadian Music contest convention. Out of all Canadian Submissions I was the top 10 in my blues genre. It was an honer. This achievement got me to play all around the world. It was amazing to play through the States, Costa Rica. Switzerland Davos Platz, the great lakes, and routine work in Ontariio “Rick Washbrook is Toronto’s Hidden Treasures” (Brian Blain Toronto Blues Society) You can hear at myspace.com/blueslessons some… 10 blues solo snips of mine. You will hear blues solos from live shows, and some solos are studio, live off the floor. I have expertise in the Blues Guitar, Slide Delta Blues, and Fusion blues guitar.
Roots of Blues — Lead Belly „ Goodnight Irene”
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