What is a blue riff?

What is a blue riff?

Blues riffs is usually repeating patterns, played on the lowest strings on the guitar. They are often based on power-chords, and some of them are more melodic, using the “blues-scale”, which we will take a look at later in the part about improvisation.

What is the E blues scale?

The E Blues scale contains all the notes in the E Pentatonic Minor plus a flatted fifth, the so-called blue note. Due to the close relationship to Em Pentatonic, the scale is also referred to as Em Pentatonic Blues or E Minor Blues.

What is the E minor blues scale?

6 Note E minor Blues Scale The minor blues scale consists of the Root, flat 3rd, 4th, Flat 5th, 5th, and flat 7th. The notes found in the Em Blues Scale are E – G – B♭- B – D. The scale tone of the Em Pentatonic Blues Scale that adds the mystery and emotion of the Blues is the flatted 5th.

Is there a major blues scale?

The major blues scale is 1, 2,♭3, 3, 5, 6 and the minor is 1, ♭3, 4, ♭5, 5, ♭7. The latter is the same as the hexatonic scale described above.

What are the top 5 guitar riffs in blues?

Top 5 Blues Guitar Riffs. 1 BB King – Woke Up This Morning. Besides being a great singe line soloist, many of BB’s classic tunes feature some catchy and tasty guitar riffs and 2 Hubert Sumlin – Smokestack Lightnin’. 3 Hollywood Fats – Rock This House. 4 Magic Sam – Sweet Home Chicago. 5 T-Bone Walker – Stormy Monday.

Can you create your own blues guitar riffs?

Use this knowledge to create your own blues guitar riffs even if you’re not an advanced guitar player yet. For instance, if you can only play up to the third or fourth riff, you can still create simple blues riffs of your own.

What are BB King’s best guitar riffs?

Besides being a great singe line soloist, many of BB’s classic tunes feature some catchy and tasty guitar riffs and one of my favorites is ‘Woke Up This Morning’. The transcription here actually comes from BB King’s famous ‘Live at The Regal’ record, but this track is not available on YouTube so I have linked to the studio version.

What is a double stop riff in the Blues?

This riff uses notes from the most popular scale in the blues, the minor blues scale. The flavor of this scale comes from the chromatic movement found at the end of each bar. In the above examples, we only play one note at a time. In the next riff we’ll be using double stops, that is, two notes played at the same time.