My first lessons with Blues
I went to a guitar class and it was amazing !!! I told him I wanted to learn blues and the teacher so much loved teaching ”blues”… That was his favorite and he hadn”t had many people asking him to teach blues…
It was a great one and half hour session with him… went like jamming and interviewing… I would ask him questions, lots of them, and he”d play and explain 
He was telling me what was very important in blues, and that was great to learn…
Phrasing:
Each blues song has a lot of “phrasing” involved. Like how in English we make sentences, using phrases, blues songs are made up of phrases ! And they contribute a lot to the “uniqueness” or the “style” of an artist…
eg: BB king, the blues guitarist, plays it with a lot of “pause”… like in wind instruments, how the players pause to take a breath, BB king kinda does the same pause here.. after every few seconds in his playing (read: after each phrase) there would be a pause, and that, would help in registering the tune in the listeners mind !
Slow:
I also found, how its not about playing so many notes in quick succession, but just playing a few notes, yet with a lot of feeling… He made me go slower and slower, and certain notes I had to play with a very soft touch to create a fade-out kinda sound…
Exploring:
After I came back home I was so excited to realise that I can do my own phrases ! Simple ones, but still, I can do them. Tried out a lot of that also ) . What is great about “blues” is that, it is a genre that is so close to “talking”… The music sounds almost like a “talk”… So even if I can think of an accentuated talk, in a good rhythm, it sounds pretty bluesy !
listen sometime to this song : (How blue can you get, BB king)
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