Bugs Blues
Texas blues-rock legend Bugs Henderson reveals his signature style
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Bugs Henderson
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About this course
Guitar Player magazine says, "Bugs Henderson should be declared a national treasure." Guitar One calls him, " the world's greatest unknown guitar player." Blues professor Dave Rubin adds, "the best kept secret in Texas, a pastel of original blues and rock." No doubt about it, Bugs Henderson is a bona fide living legend. His fans adore him, his peers applaud him, and Texas blues-rock wouldn't be what it is today with out his influence.
Bug's Blues celebrates the incredibly versatile and amazing chops that make up Henderson's legendary style. Bugs demonstrates his unique style by soloing over different blues and rock grooves, breaking down both his right and left hand techniques, walking you through specific licks note-for-note.
Bugs lays out many of his favorite licks, from country bends and whole tone licks to octave and chromatic moves. He also talks about hybrid picking, explains his use of pedal point licks, demonstrates pedal steel bends and open string tele-style moves and shows how to create open position licks from chord shapes. Along the way, you'll learn about bending, vibrato, dynamics and phrasing, and licks in the style of everyone from Freddie King, Albert Collins and B.B. King to James Burton and Roy Clark.
You'll get an in-depth look at Bugs' rhythm playing as he explains everything from his use of chromatic passing chords and signature turnarounds to how to create parts by thinking like a horn section and how to make fewer notes sound funkier. Bugs shows you how to play rhythm guitar in a power trio as well as a bigger band setting. Bugs also shares wisdom gleaned from thousands of gigs working with hundreds of top players all over the globe.
Bug's Blues celebrates the incredibly versatile and amazing chops that make up Henderson's legendary style. Bugs demonstrates his unique style by soloing over different blues and rock grooves, breaking down both his right and left hand techniques, walking you through specific licks note-for-note.
Bugs lays out many of his favorite licks, from country bends and whole tone licks to octave and chromatic moves. He also talks about hybrid picking, explains his use of pedal point licks, demonstrates pedal steel bends and open string tele-style moves and shows how to create open position licks from chord shapes. Along the way, you'll learn about bending, vibrato, dynamics and phrasing, and licks in the style of everyone from Freddie King, Albert Collins and B.B. King to James Burton and Roy Clark.
You'll get an in-depth look at Bugs' rhythm playing as he explains everything from his use of chromatic passing chords and signature turnarounds to how to create parts by thinking like a horn section and how to make fewer notes sound funkier. Bugs shows you how to play rhythm guitar in a power trio as well as a bigger band setting. Bugs also shares wisdom gleaned from thousands of gigs working with hundreds of top players all over the globe.
Release date: 12/17/2006 • 2h 47m runtime
Sample lessons
Bump Blues Rhythm
Breakdown
Shuffle C Rhythm
Extended Performance
Shuffle C Rhythm
Extended Breakdown
Slow Blues Rhythm
Performance
What's included
40 lessons • 20 charts • 20 Jam Tracks
Introduction
On a straightforward three-chord blues shuffle in C, Bugs demonstrates his "Kenny Burrell-style" voicings that use just two, three and four-note chords on the upper strings. He explains how he uses these to play like a Hammond B-3 player or a horn section and shows how one three-string voicing can function as a Gmaj6, an A9, an Eminor and a Cmajor7.
Bump Blues Rhythm
On a straightforward three-chord blues shuffle in C, Bugs demonstrates his "Kenny Burrell-style" voicings that use just two, three and four-note chords on the upper strings. He explains how he uses these to play like a Hammond B-3 player or a horn section and shows how one three-string voicing can function as a Gmaj6, an A9, an Eminor and a Cmajor7.
Bump Blues Rhythm
Over several choruses of comping, Bugs talks about his right hand thumb-and-fingers technique, demonstrates some of his signature turnarounds and uses chromatic chord motion to keep things far from ordinary while still swinging hard. He also breaks down the nuances of a Texas shuffle and explains how playing on the offbeats makes for a quintessentially Southern-sounding groove.
Bump Blues Rhythm
Over several choruses of comping, Bugs talks about his right hand thumb-and-fingers technique, demonstrates some of his signature turnarounds and uses chromatic chord motion to keep things far from ordinary while still swinging hard. He also breaks down the nuances of a Texas shuffle and explains how playing on the offbeats makes for a quintessentially Southern-sounding groove.
Bump Blues Solo
Bugs offers three different 1-chorus solos on a C shuffle, each involving a different register of the neck and featuring a different extended and distinctively Bugs-style ending lick. He shows how Freddie King-style half-step bends build tension, explains how the essence of blues involves playing minor notes over major chords, and discusses the interchangeability of country and blues moves.
Bump Blues Solo
Bugs offers three different 1-chorus solos on a C shuffle, each involving a different register of the neck and featuring a different extended and distinctively Bugs-style ending lick. He shows how Freddie King-style half-step bends build tension, explains how the essence of blues involves playing minor notes over major chords, and discusses the interchangeability of country and blues moves.
Bump Blues Solo
Bugs combines major and minor pentatonic moves to lay down several choruses that cover the whole neck, mixing in octaves, double-stops, country bends, whole-tone licks and chromatic moves along the way. He talks about how playing in a trio has influenced him to reach for more melodic solo ideas that help to spell out the chord changes, and demonstrates how he moves typical blues licks down to the low strings for a fresh sound.
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