Have you always wanted to play the blues but didn't think you had the chops? Well, fret no more. We've got everything you need to jam with even the best blues players.
Everyone knows why B.B. King sings the blues, but unless you know your way around a guitar, you probably don't know how he plays them. It all starts with something called the 12-bar blues. Almost all blues songs are written in this progressive scale, which mimics the call and response vocal tradition of African-American slaves in the Deep South.