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Chicago Electric Blues Guitar - Son Seals Page Two

Still in his formative years and with influences like Sonny Boy Williamson and many more he developed chops and phrasing that was distinctive and purposely his very own. Son was also friends and played often with Earl Hooker, cousin to John Lee Hooker, and another great original Chicago electric blues guitar stylist particularly with the wah wah pedal.

This Guitar instructional was recorded in 1999 and Son goes out of his way to make it a special personal presentation.

However, he does have an mostly unsung rhythm guitar player in the back ground without whom he wouldn't be able to play contextually the lead melodies he specializes in showing us in a variety of tempos and styles.

It wont hurt for you to have some rhythm chops under your fingers too to make the most of this.

The demonstrations include minor blues, shuffles, slow blues, funk blues and up-tempo blues shuffles all of which Son excelled at. Son spent a lot of his working career playing in clubs and juke joints where people went on a Saturday night to let their hair down and 'pound a hole in the floor' with their feet. He knows how to play to an  audience and how to use the guitar dynamically to raise and lower their feelings and emotions as the night grew longer and through out his set.

Son apparently wrote and directed this himself so its one of the few instances like the Buddy Guy and Hubert Sumlin lesson's where you have an original Chicago Blues personality directing and preforming the show.

Son Seal Main Menu

  • Ch 1: Slow Blues in C Minor
  • Ch 2: Medium Shuffle in E
  • Ch 3: Medium Shuffle in G
  • Ch 4: Funk Blues in E
  • Ch 5: Slow Blues in D minor
  • Ch 6: One Chord funk blues in C
  • Ch 7: Medium Shuffle in E with Chords
  • Ch 8: Slow Blues in C with breaks
  • Ch 9: Closing and credits

Son Seals Page One

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