Blues / Rock Rhythm

There are three main ways of playing blues/rock rhythm.

 Half open chord based: 

                                                                           

playing the first two notes of an open chord, play the bass notes as a bass line, this way you are playing bass and rhythm at the same time. Ignore the ghost notes, they are just there so you can see the chord that this bassline relates to. Just hold the 5th with your index finger, using your other fingers to play the bass while always playing the two strings together, just as in the tab on the following page. 

            

  

Notice that the pattern is the same on all three chords, This is a very common rhythm pattern, usually called boogie woogie.

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