Published on 07/11/2019 3:23 am
Traditional way of playing blues

He constantly kept improvising on and off stage on his electric guitar, which is quite clear in the live versions of "Machine Gun" and "Red House".   Les Paul is reported to have made the first electric guitar(/double-necked-guitars/) followed by Leo Fender. They became very influential and important figures in the blues music scene. Jimmy Page of the band Led Zeppelin is considered as the defining guitarist who brought forward progressive heavy rock. T-Bone Walker (1910 - 1975) is considered to be a key figure to first use the electric guitar. After the decade of the 1970s, from 1980s and onwards, different genres had emerged through blues such as Blues Rock, Country-Rock and Blues, Heavy Metal and Grunge. Jimmy Hendrix (1942 1970) created a new style of playing blues, through which he opened the structure of Rock music in the 1960s. B. Teaming up with Robert Plant on vocals, John Paul Jones on bass and John Bonham on drums, he succeeded in becoming a pioneer of modern heavy rock. The Blues culture evolved from a folk culture developed in the southern states of America by a black population, the ancestors of whom had been transported from West Africa as slaves in the 19th century. He had learned from the best blues guitarists such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. No matter how much the genres keep changing, blues will not lose its uniqueness, and will continue to inspire modern guitar players in bringing out new genres in the world of music。 His greatest achievement is of teaming up with B. There is not much documented material found on its history, but it is believed that the tradition of singing may be the core of early styles.Yemen, Yemen (prHWY. He had grown up listening to Charley Patton (1887 1934) and Son House; and had merged his own style in the traditional way of playing blues. A few musicians who were thought to have died, such as, Leadbelly, Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White and Skip James, made a come back into the world of blues music and successfully recorded their albums. He worked with blues and jazz groups and experimented with them, which led him to professionally adopt the electric guitar. The other name which emerged in the same decade is of Eric Clapton. It was an ancestral heritage played by the African-Americans in every facet of life, from work to dance and church. Both played with a heavy rock background, and are considered as the revolutionary blues guitarists of the 1960s. He often used double neck Gibson guitar. His passionate and emotional voice accompanied with light boogie riffs brought forward an improved style of blues. The 1940s and 1950s saw T-Bone Walker, Muddy Waters and B. B. Till 1930s, their electric guitars became commercially available, and many blues musicians adopted them. King (1925) played the electric guitar with surging exuberance and used down strokes to give a full sound, with string bending and his own styled vibrato. He had succeeded in establishing Delta-influenced electric blues. B. He could play guitar behind his back and strike the strings with his teeth. He has used this guitar in the most successful song of Led Zeppelin, "Stairway to Heaven", which has the finest solo played by Jimmy Page. King, the greatest living blues guitarist. Muddy Waters (1915 1983) also adopted the electric guitar, on which he used his direct melodic and rhythmic technique. His style of playing rhythm with lead and slide has always been perfect. His inspiration form blues had earned him the respect he deserved. Scrapper Blackwell (1903 1962) used a resonator to be heard above Leroy Carr's piano; and Tampa Red (1904 1981) could play by fretting chords on the lower strings while gliding over the top with smooth slide part. Many leading blues players had evolved and brought out their best works in this decade. He also reached into space with delicacy, by dropping the guitar notes into a whisper. These genres were played by guitarists like Van Halen, Yngwie Malmsteen, Guns and Roses, Metallica and Kurt Kobain. He was backed by a piano in many of his pieces. King improvise in their styles of playing blues. Lonnie Johnson (1899 - 1970), was one of the first guitarists who were backed by other musical instruments. B. Till 1960s, blues had become modern and had taken the shape of Rock. Robert Johnson (1911 1938), one of the early blues singers stood up as an individual in the 1930s. During the 1920s, blues was expanding, and from individual singers, it was turning into duos, small groups and bands. It gave a chance to the blues musicians to experiment with rhythm and lead along with other instruments. In the 1970s, blues had transformed from Rock to Heavy Rock.

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