A few blues rhythm riffs

[fleetfootmike]

As promised to andpuff. I'm sure that some of my guitar-teaching friends can add a few more nice easy acoustic blues licks to this collection!

Blues in E

1         2         3        4        5        6

|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|                          
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|                          
|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|                          
|--------|--------|--------|--------|2-4-2-4-|2-4-2-4-|                          
|2-4-2-4-|2-4-2-4-|2-4-2-4-|2-4-2-4-|0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-|                          
|0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-|--------|--------|      

7          8       9         10       11      12

|--------|--------|7-7-7-7-6-|5-5-5---|--------|--------
|--------|--------|101010109-|8-8-8---|--------|--------
|--------|--------|8-8-8-8-7-|6-6-6---|--------|--------
|--------|--------|7-7-7-7-6-|5-5-5---|--------|--------
|2-4-2-4-|2-4-2-4-|9-9-9-9-8-|7-7-7---|2-4-2-4-|9-9-9-9-
|0-0-0-0-|0-0-0-0-|7-7-7-7-6-|5-5-5---|0-0-0-0-|7-7-7-7-         

Or you can replace bars 9 and 10 with

 9         10         

|--2-----|--3-----
|----0---|----2---
|2-----2-|2-----2-
|1-------|2-------
|2-------|0-------
|--------|--------

Blues in G

 Bars 1-4, 7-8, 11
          
|--------         
|--------         
|--------         
|0-2-0-2-         
|x-x-x-x-         
|3-3-3-3- 
        
 Bars 5-6, 10       
                 
|--------         
|--------         
|0-2-0-2-         
|x-x-x-x-         
|3-3-3-3- 
|--------

Bars 9,12

|--------         
|--------         
|2-4-2-4-
|0-0-0-0-
|--------         
|--------

And the basic blues scale (in A)

|-------------5-8-         
|---------5-8-----         
|-----5-7---------         
|-5-7-------------         
|-----------------         
|----------------- 

Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Why, in "Blues in E", do you have complex chords in bars 9 and 10 when the others are all just two strings (and all of "Blues in G" is just two strings per chord)? Surely a simple x-2-4-x-x-x for the B and back to x-0-2-x-x-x for the A will suffice. (Basically they are all open 5th (alternating with 6th) chords apart from those two.)

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

You lack context :D

They're only simple bar chords, and andpuff can't do the stretch for the obvious B riff :D

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

Blues is designed for people with long fingers...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I also don't consider any barre chords 'simple' (apart from variations of Em7add4, and 2-finger "mini-barres" like in F), I don't have the stretch to get the other fingers on the frets once I have the bar.

[andpuff.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU!

Will save and print and stroke their feathers and call them George!