Open A Tuning - Elmore James/Chicago Blues Style Master Class - Ukulele Tutorial

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One of Chicago blues biggest legends was the master of slide guitar, the great Elmore James. Elmore isn't the first name that comes to mind when you think "Chicago Blues" but his impact on the overall landscape of blues cannot be denied, and he did all this from the great Windy City. He was partial to a tuning called Open E. Open E is an interesting tuning because you actually have to tune some strings up in frequency. Now, we aren't playing open E, we could tune the Ukulele to open E by bringing the G up to G#, C down to B, E stays and the A goes down a half step to G# BUT we are not using that tuning, we are using open A, because if you take Elmore's guitar and put a capo on the 5th fret, you get open A, and we are trying to play like Elmore. So for us you take the G and bring it up a whole stop to A, the C comes up a half step to a C#, E and A stay the same. Viola, open A tuning.

This lesson is going to do two things, it is going to walk you through a dozen or so ideas that you can implement on this tuning to get you rocking. Shuffles for each chord, open and barre shapes of the chords, arpeggios, licks, triplets, mixing major and minor scales, turnarounds, all these ideas to help you see this tuning in context. The blues is just a 12 bar circle, and you can use all these ideas to mix with the 12 bar so you can create your own unique blues circle, or if you want you can mix and match these ideas to start to improves and manage these unique sounds on the fly. As always, tabs,

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Open A - Elmore James Style Blues Master Class - Ukulele Tutorial