Blues#
18 grooves. Pick one with groove: blues (or another name below) in the song or a section.
| Groove | Amp | Swing | Bass | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
blues |
blues | 1 | walk | 5-6 boogie shuffle (Jimmy Reed style) |
blues/7 |
blues | 1 | walk | 5-6-b7-6 boogie shuffle |
blues/strum |
blues | 1 | walk | full chords in shuffle (D . D U . U D U) |
blues/slow |
blues | 0 | slow | strums on the triplets, ride |
blues/rhumba |
blues | 0 | walk | straight boogie with a Latin rhythm and side-stick |
blues/funk |
clean | 0 | eighths | sixteenth-note chops (chicken scratch) on ninth chords |
blues/stop |
blues | 1 | stop | one sharp hit on beat one, then silence (for sung verses) |
blues/train |
blues | 0.5 | rootfifth | light offbeat boogie on the train beat (Mystery Train, fast Chicago) |
blues/texas |
crunch | 1 | walk | chord on every beat and muted offbeat (Stevie Ray Vaughan style) |
blues/jump |
clean | 1 | walk | chops on 2 and 4, swing ride and walking ('40s) |
blues/minor |
blues | 0 | slow | root and fifth with the thumb, chord on the triplets |
blues/delta |
clean | 1 | rootfifth | alternating thumb and offbeat chops, light drums |
blues/hill |
crunch | 0 | eighths | hypnotic straight boogie, double kick (R.L. Burnside style) |
blues/halfshuffle |
blues | 1 | walk | Purdie half-time shuffle, ghost notes on the snare |
blues/chicago |
blues | 1 | walk | long chord on 1 and 3, chops on 2 and 4 |
blues/plain |
blues | 1 | two | alternating root and fifth, chord on 2 and 4, shuffle |
blues/plain-strum |
blues | 1 | two | strum on all four beats in shuffle, root and fifth bass |
blues/plain-slow |
blues | 0 | two | root, chord and fifth on the triplets |