Okay, I’m a competent intermediate player with sophisticated chord ability and a half way decent voice in terms of blues and country singing. I need help with intros and spicing up middle sections in your basic three or four chord country songs. By middle sections I mean after you’ve sung a few verses and you want to bring some variation to your three chord song, something your lead player can play over, or something that will give your solo playing some break from the basic three chord progression, some variation.
I have Lil’ Rev’s Intro book and that’s been a help. I’ve searched the Internet and found ideas but I’m wondering if someone out there can help more.
I have a pretty good grasp of basic music theory and understand that an intro will basically end with a dominant chord that pulls into the tonic that begins the song.
I watched a guitar intro lesson and the guy sounded like one of those guys you might find at Guitar Center showing off speed demon licks as intros. Definitely not what I’m looking for. I wouldn’t mind throwing in some single note licks as intros. That would be fine. Back in the day when Asleep at the Wheel were just beginning I saw them several times at a little club in Berkeley, Jerry’s Stop Sign. That guitarist blew me away but no way do I expect to come close. I just want some nice ways to lead into my Three Chords and the Truth country songs and my Rock Around the Clock Rockabilly tunes.
Thanks
I have Lil’ Rev’s Intro book and that’s been a help. I’ve searched the Internet and found ideas but I’m wondering if someone out there can help more.
I have a pretty good grasp of basic music theory and understand that an intro will basically end with a dominant chord that pulls into the tonic that begins the song.
I watched a guitar intro lesson and the guy sounded like one of those guys you might find at Guitar Center showing off speed demon licks as intros. Definitely not what I’m looking for. I wouldn’t mind throwing in some single note licks as intros. That would be fine. Back in the day when Asleep at the Wheel were just beginning I saw them several times at a little club in Berkeley, Jerry’s Stop Sign. That guitarist blew me away but no way do I expect to come close. I just want some nice ways to lead into my Three Chords and the Truth country songs and my Rock Around the Clock Rockabilly tunes.
Thanks
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