Blues With Space

From: Corey Congilio's Blues Rhythms Vol. 2

I've been talking about 'space' in your rhythm playing quite a bit, if you've been following along with these performance tips. In this slow blues example, I'm truly showing off my style, and my favorite use of space. We're in the key of G here and your I-IV-V chords are G7(9) C9 and D9. I threw in some diminished stuff as well – why not? This example is based off of the 6th-9th move we touched on in some early slow blues examples. One of my favorite things about this lick is the use of suspended chords. Learn this 12-bar example and, with some patience, you'll be able to play this unaccompanied and sound like Bill Frisell meets Robben Ford – pretty good players to emulate, I'd say!

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