| If you are interested to learn how to play a guitar, | | | | to as the Blues Highway since it runs down from the |
| then you must look for tips on how you can learn | | | | jazz point of New Orleans' blues and reaches |
| the techniques of playing the blues guitar. This is | | | | Memphis where it is the home of the real blues music |
| because this genre of music is being considered as | | | | genre. However, this Blues route continues on to |
| the very root of all types of music. Through its | | | | Chicago, where it is the largest city which has widely |
| history, many people believe that it first originated in | | | | accepted the blues flavor. |
| Africa while the blues were being sung by plantation | | | | Because blues guitar has strongly influenced the |
| workers who were previously slaves living in | | | | structure of today's modern music which we can still |
| Mississippi Delta. | | | | hear, it is important to first understand this |
| During the nighttime, the sounds they sang were | | | | instrument's foundation as well as the great music |
| being interpreted and performed on a stage by | | | | history before you can start playing your own notes, |
| several musicians concentrating on blues music as well | | | | modes and scales. With this respect and |
| as some popular guitarists. This was the opportunity | | | | understanding for the blues genre, you will also know |
| of these people to have enjoy some time with the | | | | how great music is being made. This will also lead you |
| company of their friends and family after a hard | | | | to have a new different way of playing songs on |
| day's work. They normally held these performances | | | | your guitar. |
| at places called "juke joints" which were once a | | | | Surely, if it weren't for the genre, Elvis Presley would |
| mainstay nightly entertainment which the plantation | | | | never have made it huge in the popular culture of |
| workers throughout the whole Mississippi state | | | | music. Also, John Lennon would not have picked up a |
| enjoyed. | | | | guitar and for that, music would be different today. |
| As a matter of fact, Highway 61 is popularly referred | | | | |