Acoustic Guitar Magazine | 4 years ago

Establish an alternating bass with your thumb and then use various patterns to create the treble/melody voice. A few exercises will establish the muscle memory that will help you keep track of the bass patterns played with melody. Take that pattern and turn it into a basic 12-bar blues.

Here are a few ideas for those of you who love the sound of players like Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, or any number of Delta and Piedmont blues players, but have struggled to keep the solid alternating bass lines these players employ to give their music the drive that we all love.

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