The Blues Guitar

    This is my blues version of the classic song 'Blueberry Hill'. Although the song is most often associated with Fats Domino's version released in 1956, it was actually written over 10 years earlier in 1940 and first sung by Gene Autry in the film The Singing Hill. A number of other versions were also recorded in 1940 (source:www.jazziz.com). However, it wasn't until 1956 that Fats Domino released his own version of it which, over time, has come to be the most recognised recording of the song. Fats Domino's version had a more upbeat rock n roll feel to it, indicative of the predominant msuical style of the time, and used a 12/8 rhythm to give it that distinctive sound. The notes used in the melody itself were largely unaltered from the original, but the timing and phrasing in Domino's version were markedly different.  My version that I have written can probably be best described as a hybrid between the original and Domino's version. It is in 4/4 time givi

  I am going to do some short videos with small pieces of music such as turnarounds and licks, which can be incorporated into pieces of blues music. In this first one, I am going to show you a popular turnaround in the Key of E. This is played on a guitar in standard tuning and uses a pattern of descending 7th chords. There are 2 parts to it. The first is when it is played as a turnaround, for when the music loops back on itself. The second is for when it is played as an ending to a piece of music. This turnaround is easy to play and can easily be incorporated into a piece of blues music in the key of E. It works very well with a 12 bar blues in E. The video shows me playing it at normal speed, and then shows me playing it slower with the tab on the screen. To download the tabs, click the links below. Blues Turnaround in E - No 1 Tab - Power Tab - PDF - TXT Thanks for Reading, Neil