A big part of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove — a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) — at various tempos. Let Joe Bonamassa give you a hand!
00:00Hey guys, Joe Bonamassa again with the Les Paul and a Trainwreck and a reverb tank.
00:10We're talking about shuffles. And one of my favorite slow shuffles is Jeff Beck
00:18group off the record Truth, Rock My Plimsoll, a very English way of singing Rock Me Baby.
00:24And the riff is kind of...
00:54And Jeff always had those, you know, all those kind of like aggressive moments.
01:01And when you're playing like a slow shuffle, that's kind of, you can almost approach it like a slow blues.
01:07And, you know...
01:17You have a lot more time, you know.
01:19What I like to do sometimes, when I'm not making a mistake, is I like to use open strings, especially if you're playing in B, you know.
01:45cả a beat, you know.
01:55Beard
01:57O.D.
02:07You know, so it's kind of a, like a British approach.
02:21It's a Gibbons approach.
02:23He used a lot of open strings.
02:37And like I said, it's like telling a story.
03:00And a lot of times with a slow shuffle, it's cool to like stinging out when you're just
03:05coming off the, you know, it's your turn to solo.
03:07Kind of like Albert Collins or, you know, any of the great blues players of many years
03:26ago, they just would sting one just to get your attention.
03:37You know, Gary Moore did that a lot.
03:42You know, it started with a stinger.
03:49And then play fast.
03:51And, you know, use of octaves and dynamics, you know, because if you're coming off the
03:57five, you know.
03:57And then play fast.
04:02And then play fast.
04:04And then play fast.
04:05And then play fast.
04:10And then, you know.
04:40The way I said, there's many different approaches, like, you know, with a Les Paul or a 335 or a Strat or a Telecaster, you know, Albert Collins would capo.
04:52So he had a lot of open strings and it tuned to an open chord.
04:56So you can experiment a lot with that.
04:59And you can also experiment with just playing with the band and listening.
05:03You know, one of the most important things in this style of music is listening to the other musicians around you and reacting.
05:11You know, if you hear something cool come from the keyboard player, then react to it.
05:16You know, same thing if there's horns or a bass or just, you know, some, you know, thing the drummer's doing.
05:22Go with them, you know, because that's the interaction that we all love and have learned from throughout the years.
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