Comments on: Five Steps to Ukulele Blues Mastery

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:51:05 +0000

Mal: Ponos are good at that price.

By: Mal Chilvers

Mal Chilvers — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:14:40 +0000

Can you recermend ukulele for playing the blues around the £200.00 -£350.00 please

By: Slim Symes

Slim Symes — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:54:34 +0000

The variations are endless but I am still blue!
I need tabs for Steam roller blues, I mean Elvis covered this song!

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:56:31 +0000

David: Thanks (but curse you for stealing the joke I was going to do!).

Joshua: Try switching C to D, F to G and G7 to A7.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:02:25 +0000

for me i live the blues and been in quite a few bars =D but thanks! i thought it was 2×4
i’m gonna listen to some muddy waters right now :)
also i have another question;
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is a cool blues solo but don’t know what to do with it does it go well with step 2?

By: David Barnes

David Barnes — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:08:34 +0000

If you’ve never been to a bar you’re never going to understand the blues.

(A “bar” in this case just means going “1-2-3-4″. So 4 bars means count to 4, 4 times. Try listening to a blues song and counting “1-2-3-4″ to it and you’ll get the gist.)

By: Joshua

Joshua — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:28:11 +0000

what is a bar?

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 15 May 2010 17:14:36 +0000

David: Haha! Foolproof system.

By: David Barnes

David Barnes — Fri, 14 May 2010 15:30:28 +0000

You forgot to tell us how to write a blues song.

1. Find something sad.

2. Write a line about this bad situation.

3. Add another line that rhymes with the first line (if you can’t think of one, just sing the first line again)

4. Add another two lines that don’t need to rhyme with anything, but tell people what you’re going to do about it.

5. Add in the chord changes.

Play it.

Example:

1. [C]I feel so bad, my woman’s gone
2. She run and [F] left me on my [C] own
3. But I’m gonna [G7] call up her best [F] friend
4. And get her [C] round

Then add some words like “dogone” and “well y’know” around the place, keep adding verses that tell the story, and you have a blues song.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:53:11 +0000

Alice: You’re a fully qualified blues player now!