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Permalink Reply by Patrick Curley on March 8, 2015 at 9:53am

I assume you're tuned 1 5 (In which case the diminished chord won't work, not that you'll want to use it too often)

Frettless or fretted?

What would you like to play?

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Uhl on March 8, 2015 at 10:08am

Its fretless. It a 2 string chugger I bought from Shane Speal. I was hoping to play blues.

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Curley on March 8, 2015 at 6:19pm

See how you go with this one. You may not get the turnaround with only 2 strings but the main riff will work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZEoPMVCVMI

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Permalink Reply by Patrick Curley on March 8, 2015 at 6:22pm

Everyone else knows this one so you'd better get it sorted too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub5Tw5kapNA

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Uhl on March 8, 2015 at 11:44pm

Thank you

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Permalink Reply by TN Twang on March 9, 2015 at 4:00am

Jeremy,

Wayfarer and Patrick have given you some good advice, and I don't want to distract from that. But somewhere around this website is a full set of instructions for playing the blues.

You have to live a dissolute life, consume too much alcohol, have your heart broken and--most important of all--get up in the morning, since all great blues players "got up this morning..."

If anyone online remembers where the full set of instructions is hidden, it might be useful to resurrect them.

TN

Oh yeah, welcome to CBNation!

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Permalink Reply by Jim_N on March 9, 2015 at 8:57am

Rules & Regs resurrected:

1. Most Blues begin, “Woke up this morning… “

2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, unless you stick something nasty in the next line like, "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."

3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes... sort of: "Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound."

5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft and company motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.

7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.

8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cause you were skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg 'cause a alligator be chompin' on it is.

9. You can't have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.

10. Good places for the Blues:
a. Highway
b. Jailhouse
c. An empty bed
d. Bottom of a whiskey glass

11. Bad places for the Blues:
a. Nordstrom's
b. Gallery openings
c. Ivy league institutions
d. Golf courses

12. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you slept in it.

13. You have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You older than dirt
b. You blind
c. You shot a man in Memphis
d. You can't be satisfied

14. You don't have the right to sing the Blues if:
a. You have all your teeth
b. You were once blind but now can see
c. The man in Memphis lived
d. You have a pension fund

15. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.

16. If you ask for water and your darlin' give you gasoline, it's the Blues

17. Other acceptable Blues beverages are:
a. Cheap wine
b. Whiskey or bourbon
c. Muddy water
d. Nasty black coffee

18. The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. Perrier
b. Chardonnay
c. Snapple
d. Slim Fast

19. If death occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse and dying lonely on a broke-down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or while getting liposuction.

20. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling

21. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie

22. Persons with names like Michelle, Amber, Debbie, and Heather can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Uhl on March 9, 2015 at 9:09am

That's a lot of rules and regs. Lol. I think I have a couple of these covered.

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