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Bluesriffs in E and in A
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If you're going to play solo, you need a couple of suitable riffs, basic building bricks for solos.
This one's for the Irish tuned tenor banjo and is based on a E7 chord with the augmented fourth and the minor third as supension notes.
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It's quite simple: You use the notes in the chords and start some of them a semitone (one fret) too low, sliding up to the "correct" note.
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You can just think of it as a cool riff you can use.
It's a quite modern kind of riff, perfect for rhythm & blues, but not for down-to-earth acoustic country-blues.
Click on the music to hear the midi file. (Midi file opens in a new window.)
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You can play the same riff on an A7 chord simply by moving it one string down:
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