Chords for Acoustic Blues Tutorial

_ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ Well I've had a lot of people ask me [C#] if I could do a tutorial [D] on my acoustic blues and
figure I would try it out.
So [N] hopefully it's useful for you.
If it is, let me know.
I'm
going to move you here so you can see my fret hands as I talk about some of the more basic
_ items of my _ _ blues progression.
Basically when I'm playing my acoustic blues, I'm playing
a 12 bar blues in the key of E.
That's what we're going to do here.
It's a simple progression,
a 1, 4, 5.
We're going to start [C] with the 1, which [E] is an E.
_ _ I throw in a 7th note there,
so it's an E7.
_ _ [A] _
_ The 4 is an A7, _ _ _ _ _ which is played like this.
_ And [B] then the 5 of course is the
B7. _ _ _ _
So it's [A] a simple progression of a 1, [E] 4, 5, _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[A] _ 4. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] Now we're at the 7 of a 5.
_ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
_ [C#] That's the
basic progression.
[D#] If you notice, _ as we went [E] through, _ _ I always hit [E] the root note on the
B. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
That kind of gives you that thumping _ [N] _ bass movement to the foundation, so to speak, of
your house.
As far as scale, _ I play kind of a modified blues scale, which [G] is based off
your pentatonic. _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ But I throw in a [N] few major notes [B] to it. _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _