FF 5.3 | Listening

Classroom

Jan 17

Written By Bob Habersat

3 Listening (1 Day)

Start by listening to early examples from the Blues Origins playlist (Robert Johnson and Blind Melon are great for this). Talk about the recording quality and how the slide playing resembles the human voice.
Listen to contrasting classic blues artists like B. B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan and have student identify differences in their playing.
Start each period in the unit with listening to examples from those artists and slowly add new artists to the list. The goal is to get students to be able to identify a few blues artists by just listening to their soloing sound and style. The one’s I focus on are: B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Chuck Berry, and Roy Buchanan.
I also like to introduce students some modern blues players and their Youtube channels like Josh Smith and Chris Buck.

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