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Chapter 5: Positioning the Right Hand for Rhythm and Lead
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If you’re playing solo guitar, you play a lot more pick-strum patterns. In a
band setting, you usually have a bass player who handles the bass duties,
and it’s more appropriate to play all strumming patterns, so as not to get in
his way.
The following sections include other pick-strum patterns for the most
common blues feels.
Two-beat or cut shuffle
The two-beat or cut shuffle is sometimes referred to as a boom-chick pattern
because the bass note and chords alternate, as shown in Figure 5-5. A twobeat
feel is common in other forms of music (Dixieland and big-band jazz,
polka, samba, and country), but it has its place in the blues, too.
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G
E7
A7
T
A
B
3
3 3
0 0
0 0
0 0
2
0
0 0
0 0
1 1
0 0
2
0
0 0
2 2
0 0
2 2
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
2
0
2
Figure 5-5:
A two-beat,
or cut
shuffle, feel
alternates
bass notes
with the
chords.
Am7
0
0 0
1 1
0 0
2 2
0
D7
0
2 2
1 1
2 2
0
G
3
3 3
0 0
0 0
0 0
2
D7
0
2
1
2
0
2
1
2
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