Example BLIND BLAKE STYLE

[Bar 21] Here’s a bluesy quarter-note bend followed by a bass line which you can really swing. Aim to make the bend gritty. The old-time blues guys didn’t always get it to pitch (they used strings like telegraph wires and replacing them 2 was Blind expensive Blake Style too). But they always sounded like they meant it! [Bar 25] Blake didn’t tear through all his pieces and this slower section is reminiscent of the space in some of his tunes.

[Bar 32] These simple chords on the higher strings are well worth knowing and feature again and again in old-time blues tunes.