9th Blues Fingerstyle

9th Fingerstyle Blues

Hey and welcome to my new lesson.

12 Bar Blues: The 12-bar form is the most prevalent in blues and rock and is the oldest of the blues forms.

Today i want to show you guys a 9th chords blues, adding the 9th to a chord gives it a new sound and creates some interesting tensions that will liven up your old 7th-style voicings.

So basically this is our standard 12 Bar Blues progression:

| I A7 | I A7 | I A7 | I A7 |
| IV D7 | IV D7 | I A7 | I A7 |
| V E7 | IV D7 | I A7 | V E7 |
------------------------Turnaround

All we do now is adding some colors to it. So instead of playing only dominant 7 chords we play dominant 9 chords and we are doing it twice as long with some subtle changes so we have 24 Bars of music.

| I A9 | I A9 | I A9 | I A9 |
| IV D9 | IV D9 | I A9 | I A9 |
| V E9 | IV D9 | I A9 | V E9 |
------------------------Turnaround

| I A9 | I A9 | I A9 | I A9 |
| IV D9 | IV D9 | I A9 | I A9 |
| V E9 | IV D9 | I A9 | V E9 ||end
------------------------Turnaround

This Lesson will work on:

- Blues form
- Right hand picking
- Playing bass and melody at the the same time
- Basic blues rhythm
- Extended chord voicing (9th)

Tuning: E A D G B E - Standard Tuning

Tempo: 94bpm

Gear:
Fender Strat
Using the Neck pickup together and slightly Overdriven tone
Guitar Rig 4

Thanks and have fun with this lesson - Fabian Ratsak.

Scales: