Now I'm going to show you another way to play over the E blues chord progression. I'll just do a quick demonstration. I won't play through the whole thing, but this is the idea. It's called the shuffle like the blues shuffle. You might have heard it before. That's the idea.
So let me show you how to play that. You're going to start by playing what's called an E five chord, sometimes referred to as a power chord. All you're doing is you're putting your pointer finger or your index finger on the second fret of the A string. And then you're just playing the low E string and a string. That's it. Now I know it might be challenging to just play that you might hit my hit the other strings.
So what I do is I take my index finger here and just kind of hover it over just slightly touching the D string. And it just helps to mute that in case you hit that note. So that's something that might help when playing this part of the shuffle. The next part is take your ring finger and put it on the fourth fret of the A string. And you can play that that would be considered e6. Now if you want you can use your pinky to that works as well.
Whichever might be easiest. At this point. I like to use the ring finger. Okay, so just play the five again then e6 If you can keep your pointer finger on the second fret of the A string in position, because you're going to be going like this back and forth like that. And again, my right hand is just strumming the low E string in a string throw this he can feel that syncopated rhythm. I'll play it really slow, too two, and three.
And let's take a look at the a seven part of this or the a shuffle that's pretty straightforward. If you already are comfortable with the Shuffle, then you're just hopping over to the A and D strings for the a shuffle. So this would be the a five portion of that the A and the D string with the index finger on the second fret of the D string. And then the a six would be the fourth fret on the D string, ring finger. Just playing the strings, again, you can use your point or your index finger to kind of just touch the G string just a little bit there. So that doesn't ring out.
Actually doesn't sound horrible. Okay, but you really want this just the two strings. gives a really real drive and just try going back and forth between this the a five and then the eight, six Even just play it once for each one. When you get comfortable with that, then you can get into that shuffle feel like one and two, three, and four. So that would be one measure in the E blues chord progression. When you see the a seven, and you want to break into that shuffle, you would go one and two and three and four, and that would be one measure there.
Now for the B seven, just pull it for now just play the B chord. You could actually go like this, or here, it might be a little too hard right now to do that. So we'll just leave it for now and just play the B seven, B seven chord. You could just play it four times. One, two Three, four, where you see the B seven parts. So I'll just do a quick demonstration.
Don't play along with me right now in the next lesson, you'll do that. But just to show you how it all comes together, all right, here we go. A seven, seven shuffle, just the B seven chord 1234 a seven, e seven. So I take some time learning how to do the IE shuffle and a shuffle. Get as comfortable with that as you can just start really slow, might be painfully slow. Like that.
The other thing too, that you can consider is what's called palm muting the strings while you play them. So I'm just putting kind of the, the palm of my hand that's like the thumb area on the bridge here, just kind of resting it up against the strings, not pressing down too hard, but just a bit. So for example, when I play I'm just gonna play the f5 portion of that. Can I increase this like muted some you can. You could just barely have it touching the strings are a lot. Okay, I like to do that when playing Use a pretty cool field there.
So that's something to try out as well. All right. So let's head over to the next lesson. And you can play along with me. The shuffle for the blues