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Okay, in this podcast, I’m going to show you how to play a blues progression using the E, A7 and B7. So, let’s go ahead and take the E chord and play this. And in this blues progression I want to show you how to play an alternating baseline using the E chord.
So at first, you’re going to take and hit the big E string. Then strum it until you hit big string; down/up. Often using a bunch of Johnny Cash songs so let’s try that again. You’re going to hit the big string and then strum down/up on the E chord. Now you’re going to take the B note on the second fret; what your second finger is pressing down on the E chord. And hit it and do the same thing; down/down/up.
You’re going to take A7 and do the same thing. You’re going to hit the open A string. Then we’re going to hit the E string. Back to E. B7, you hit the second fret once again, holding the B7 chord down.  Hit the same note, second fret with the pick; down/up. And you take your second finger and you move to the second fret on the E string. So you have . So, that’s the three chords and the strum that we’re going to be using to alternate the baseline for the 12 bar blues progression. So, you’re going to take E; hit is four times. You got one, two, three; about like that. We’re going to hit E and hit that base note. You count one, two and three, four and one, two and three, four and one, two and three, four and one, two and three, four. And A, two and three, four and one, two and three, four. And E, two and three, four and one, two and three, four. And B7, two-- Back to E. Then to B. Repeat it again. One more time. So that’s how you play a 12 bar blues; using alternating baseline. And it’s really easy. You call all strum like that. You can also try to mute the strings a little bit more. So, if we take a palm mute; this hand down here to get this kind of sound.  Take an up-close of this hand, you’re going to have a-- You can mute this right hand palm like this at the back of the guitar right here. So you can have-- . Take an E, you get a palm mute that; then you kind of let off the palm when you strum down on both chords again; all three chords. So you kind of build it up as you go along to get the dynamics and make the song groove more as you keep going through the song. So, you could start out like that. So, you would do something like that just to bring the dynamics of the song out more. That will help you a lot in trying to play any acoustic guitar, beginner guitar; any kind of blues >that you’re trying to work on. All right. And that does it for this video podcast; video podcast number two. And I want to thank everybody for watching the new video podcast. I appreciate the feedback and purchases from LearningGuitarNow.com. I’ve got a lot more to come pretty soon. I’ve been working on a bunch of new products so stay tuned for that. Also, if you want to get some free videos of how to play guitar, there is the guitar lessons newsletter on- at LearningGuitarNow.com. Just sign up for the newsletter and every five days, you will receive three free videos all about learning slide guitar, blues guitar and beginner guitar. So, check out that if you’re interested in some of those guitar lessons. And stay tuned for future episodes from Learning Guitar Now. Like I said, there’s a lot more I got planned in the future. Thanks again for checking out the site and we’ll see you next time.
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