NUGGETS
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
D7
7
8
5
The “King of the Delta Blues” has been re-
puted to have gone to the “crossroads” and
swapped his soul for otherworldly musician-
ship. Nix on that! In fact, he had extraordi-
nary talent and practiced until he could cut
7
8
7
5
7
heads in the 30s. While “walking” and slid-
ing the blues, he snuck in a slick fingered
IV (D) chord lick in Fig. 3 combining notes
from the D Mixolydian mode with an A/F#
(5th/3rd) dyad.
Fig. 4
Fig. 4
Am
14
13
12
14
14
The “Westside Blues” created in Chicago in
the late 50s by Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and
Buddy Guy often favored moody minor key
progressions. Fig. 4 contains the signature
broken chord pattern from a “missed love”
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GUITAR TRICKS INSIDER
DIGITAL EDITION
13
14
13
14
classic. In the key of Am, like the cover
version played by a guitar deity on the first
Bluesbreakers album in 1966, the i chord
lick at fret 12 is moveable to the iv (fret 5)
and v (fret 7) chords.
MAY / JUNE