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Learning about and how to play it

This ia a small group that we use to learn about and start playing the blues. If you want to do the same, just clone the group - invite some friends - and do the same. And let's share notes.

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Make an audio moodboard

What's the sound we are looking for? Noir-retro, darkjazz-blues, sludgy, tasting of smoke-filled rooms and heartbreak or even reprobate scat?

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Find tunes on youtube and embed them here.
Make up names for your genre of blues.

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Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 5:36 p.m.

Okay, sorry to hog this channel, but you know, we're really tapping into an obsession of mine here with this sound. Here be Beach House, not strictly blues, but very bar-room, lo-fi, smokey, moody... one of my favourite bands...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFxdDE0k1_Q
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 5:13 p.m.

More Dan Auerbach - well worth getting this whole album, for fans of contemporary bluesy stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QCG-19YPsk
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 4:47 p.m.

um, philipp, is the picture you posted of Robert Mugabe playing the blues?
Philipp July 13, 2011, 5:04 p.m.
In Reply To: Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 4:47 p.m.

He looked familiar, but I couldn't figure out why ...
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 4:46 p.m.

massively got into this album over the last week - Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys's solo project. Really spangled blues-rock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KstclYaQa_0
Steve Song July 13, 2011, 8:51 p.m.
In Reply To: Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 4:46 p.m.

Yeah!
Philipp July 13, 2011, 4:35 p.m.

Want me some of this end-of-the-world post-post-acopalyse. Both video and audio submitted to mood board.

Check out HD version at vimeo, or watch youtube clip below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otY1sfvELXQ
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 4:43 p.m.
In Reply To: Philipp July 13, 2011, 4:35 p.m.

this is an awesome tune. massive attack have huge significance for me - when I was 13 i was obsessed with them and i've never stopped loving their sound. definite big influence
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 1:45 p.m.

Freaked out - Oxbow feat. Marianne Faithful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvmJAMHqmhQ
Philipp July 13, 2011, 4:36 p.m.
In Reply To: Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 1:45 p.m.

Makes me think we might need an organ.
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 1:32 p.m.

The absolute daddies of minimal noir jazz, imho: Bohren und der Club of gore (but on the gloomy side)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejwHHS4neuA
Steve Song July 13, 2011, 12:12 p.m.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW7BjndJ8QI

Not quite this but I like the idea of a pseudo-movie soundtrack. More like what happens around minute 3.
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 11:18 a.m.

Get darker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-9YSSWoD9s
Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 11:11 a.m.

A little bit of Mazzy Star from leftfield... or too 'shoe-gaze'y?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbgcpFUWN0
Philipp July 13, 2011, 4:48 p.m.
In Reply To: Gavin Weale July 13, 2011, 11:11 a.m.

Entirely depends on the kinds of shoes IMHO. White faux-snake slippers? No problem! And anything with a "hypnotic" beat is in anyway. And more organ ... recurring theme?
Philipp July 13, 2011, 10:58 a.m.

I'm cheating. This is actually Gavin's. But what the hell ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fM-atxbW9U0