Chords for Darol Anger Blues Lesson
Tempo:
101.8 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
A
Ab
Ebm
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B]
[A] [Eb]
[A] [Eb] Hi, [Ab] I'm Darryl Anger and I'd like to talk a little bit about the blues.
You know,
the violin is one of the greatest instruments for playing the blues.
We
just don't have enough people doing that yet.
People talk about the blues scale
like it's like some kind of mystical, moistical kind of [Eb] feeling, you know, [F] and
of course the blues is a feeling.
It's kind of a feeling you get when you're in
a bad situation that you can't [Eb] do anything about and that means there's
some emotional movement that has to happen in your life and that can get
translated into music.
If you have these blues notes in the [B] scale, [Ab]
right, that's a
major [Ebm] scale around [Eb]
here like this.
You have [B] a minor scale, [Ab]
[Ab] right, and then you
have a blues scale.
[C]
[Db] [Ebm] [A] Now what's [Ab] the difference between that and a minor
scale?
I think it's [Ebm] there's three very important [Ab] notes [Eb] that move.
The [A] third,
[Eb] we're in the key of A, so the third is a C-sharp.
[Ebm]
The [Eb] fifth, which is an E, and [Ab] the
seventh, which is a flat seventh, so that's a G,
[Eb] but it moves also.
So you have
these three important notes that always [C] move and that's your sort of emotional
expression [A] in the blues.
So when you play the third, you can have an unhappy,
a very [F] crushed sounding,
[Ab] still [Eb] moving but staying very low, or you can have sort of
a sassy, sort of defiant blues, like you can knock me down and step on my face,
slander my name all over the place, but you can't kill my fighting blues spirit
kind of [Ab] third.
Like that.
The fifth [Eb] also moves.
It moves from a flat five
to a [Eb] regular five.
[E] [Eb]
[A] Kind of, I woke up this morning.
[Am]
[A] And the seventh, [Eb] right, it
starts with a flat seven and goes up.
[A] So when you combine all these, [Eb] [A] [Ab]
[A] you get a
very strong blues [Eb] feeling, that feeling of the moan.
[D]
[A] [Eb]
[Am] [A] [Eb] So that's why the violin is
such a great blues instrument, because you can really move those notes around,
and I just love the D'Addario strings for that reason, because they always
respond.
You [Bb] can dig in [A] [Eb] and you can really move those notes around with
these strings.
They always are reliable and they do the job.
[A] [Eb]
[A] [Eb] Hi, [Ab] I'm Darryl Anger and I'd like to talk a little bit about the blues.
You know,
the violin is one of the greatest instruments for playing the blues.
We
just don't have enough people doing that yet.
People talk about the blues scale
like it's like some kind of mystical, moistical kind of [Eb] feeling, you know, [F] and
of course the blues is a feeling.
It's kind of a feeling you get when you're in
a bad situation that you can't [Eb] do anything about and that means there's
some emotional movement that has to happen in your life and that can get
translated into music.
If you have these blues notes in the [B] scale, [Ab]
right, that's a
major [Ebm] scale around [Eb]
here like this.
You have [B] a minor scale, [Ab]
[Ab] right, and then you
have a blues scale.
[C]
[Db] [Ebm] [A] Now what's [Ab] the difference between that and a minor
scale?
I think it's [Ebm] there's three very important [Ab] notes [Eb] that move.
The [A] third,
[Eb] we're in the key of A, so the third is a C-sharp.
[Ebm]
The [Eb] fifth, which is an E, and [Ab] the
seventh, which is a flat seventh, so that's a G,
[Eb] but it moves also.
So you have
these three important notes that always [C] move and that's your sort of emotional
expression [A] in the blues.
So when you play the third, you can have an unhappy,
a very [F] crushed sounding,
[Ab] still [Eb] moving but staying very low, or you can have sort of
a sassy, sort of defiant blues, like you can knock me down and step on my face,
slander my name all over the place, but you can't kill my fighting blues spirit
kind of [Ab] third.
Like that.
The fifth [Eb] also moves.
It moves from a flat five
to a [Eb] regular five.
[E] [Eb]
[A] Kind of, I woke up this morning.
[Am]
[A] And the seventh, [Eb] right, it
starts with a flat seven and goes up.
[A] So when you combine all these, [Eb] [A] [Ab]
[A] you get a
very strong blues [Eb] feeling, that feeling of the moan.
[D]
[A] [Eb]
[Am] [A] [Eb] So that's why the violin is
such a great blues instrument, because you can really move those notes around,
and I just love the D'Addario strings for that reason, because they always
respond.
You [Bb] can dig in [A] [Eb] and you can really move those notes around with
these strings.
They always are reliable and they do the job.
Key:
Eb
A
Ab
Ebm
B
Eb
A
Ab
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] Hi, [Ab] I'm Darryl Anger and I'd like to talk a little bit about the blues.
You know,
the violin is one of the greatest instruments for playing the blues.
We
just don't have enough people doing that yet.
People talk about the blues scale
like it's like some kind of mystical, moistical kind of [Eb] feeling, you know, [F] and
of course the blues is a feeling.
It's kind of a feeling you get when you're in
a bad situation that you can't [Eb] do anything about and that means there's
some emotional movement that has to happen in your life and that can get
translated into music.
If you have _ these blues notes in the [B] scale, _ [Ab] _ _
right, that's a
major [Ebm] scale around [Eb]
here like this.
You have [B] a minor scale, [Ab] _ _
[Ab] right, and then you
have a blues scale.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [A] Now what's [Ab] the difference between that and a minor
scale?
I think it's [Ebm] there's three very important [Ab] notes [Eb] that move.
The [A] third,
[Eb] we're in the key of A, so the third is a C-sharp.
_ _ [Ebm]
The [Eb] fifth, which is an E, _ and [Ab] the
seventh, which is a flat seventh, so that's a G, _
_ [Eb] but it moves also.
So you have
these three important notes that always [C] move and that's your sort of emotional
expression [A] in the blues.
So when you play the third, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you can have an unhappy,
a very [F] crushed sounding, _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ still [Eb] moving but staying very low, _ _ _ or you can have sort of
a sassy, sort of defiant blues, like you can knock me down and step on my face,
slander my name all over the place, but you can't kill my fighting blues spirit
kind of [Ab] third.
_ _ _ _ Like that.
The fifth [Eb] also moves.
It moves from a flat five
to a [Eb] regular five.
[E] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[A] Kind of, I woke up this morning.
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] And the seventh, [Eb] _ _ right, it
starts with a flat seven and goes up. _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ So when you combine all these, [Eb] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [A] _ you get a
very strong blues [Eb] feeling, that feeling of the moan.
_ [D] _
[A] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] So that's why the violin is
such a great blues instrument, because you can really move those notes around,
_ and I just love the D'Addario strings for that reason, because they always
respond.
You [Bb] can dig in [A] _ [Eb] and you can really move those notes around with
these strings.
They always are reliable and they do the job. _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] Hi, [Ab] I'm Darryl Anger and I'd like to talk a little bit about the blues.
You know,
the violin is one of the greatest instruments for playing the blues.
We
just don't have enough people doing that yet.
People talk about the blues scale
like it's like some kind of mystical, moistical kind of [Eb] feeling, you know, [F] and
of course the blues is a feeling.
It's kind of a feeling you get when you're in
a bad situation that you can't [Eb] do anything about and that means there's
some emotional movement that has to happen in your life and that can get
translated into music.
If you have _ these blues notes in the [B] scale, _ [Ab] _ _
right, that's a
major [Ebm] scale around [Eb]
here like this.
You have [B] a minor scale, [Ab] _ _
[Ab] right, and then you
have a blues scale.
_ _ [C] _
_ [Db] _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [A] Now what's [Ab] the difference between that and a minor
scale?
I think it's [Ebm] there's three very important [Ab] notes [Eb] that move.
The [A] third,
[Eb] we're in the key of A, so the third is a C-sharp.
_ _ [Ebm]
The [Eb] fifth, which is an E, _ and [Ab] the
seventh, which is a flat seventh, so that's a G, _
_ [Eb] but it moves also.
So you have
these three important notes that always [C] move and that's your sort of emotional
expression [A] in the blues.
So when you play the third, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ you can have an unhappy,
a very [F] crushed sounding, _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ still [Eb] moving but staying very low, _ _ _ or you can have sort of
a sassy, sort of defiant blues, like you can knock me down and step on my face,
slander my name all over the place, but you can't kill my fighting blues spirit
kind of [Ab] third.
_ _ _ _ Like that.
The fifth [Eb] also moves.
It moves from a flat five
to a [Eb] regular five.
[E] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
[A] Kind of, I woke up this morning.
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] And the seventh, [Eb] _ _ right, it
starts with a flat seven and goes up. _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ So when you combine all these, [Eb] _ _ _ [A] _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [A] _ you get a
very strong blues [Eb] feeling, that feeling of the moan.
_ [D] _
[A] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Eb] So that's why the violin is
such a great blues instrument, because you can really move those notes around,
_ and I just love the D'Addario strings for that reason, because they always
respond.
You [Bb] can dig in [A] _ [Eb] and you can really move those notes around with
these strings.
They always are reliable and they do the job. _