The Blues Guitar

  In this video I want to share with you a piece of blues music I have written called 'Mixed Up Blues'. This is a fingerstyle guitar piece and uses a slapping technique throughout the music. I got the name 'Mixed Up Blues' because when I was writing it I had a jumble of mixed up sections of music that I tried to piece together into one coherent tune. I still think it sounds a bit mixed up but I like the finished version. The music is in the key of E, it is played on a guitar in Standard Tuning, and is mostly in 4/4 time. The music is very similar to a 12 bar blues in terms of its chord progression, the main difference is that this is 20 bars long. In a standard 12 bar blues, the root chord is played for the first 4 bars of the music. In this piece, the root chord is played for the first 12 bars of the music. After that, the chord changes are the same as a standard 12 bar. Thus, the main section is 20 bars long. In the video I play through the intro which is 4 bars long,...