Call It Stormy Monday Guitar Lesson

Learn how to play like T-Bone Walker!

T-Bone is perhaps the most influential of all our Blues Legacy players mainly due to the fact that he invented Blues lead playing on the electric guitar!

Unfortunately, he is often over looked by the more recent guitarists, such as B.B King or Jimi Hendrix.

Walker’s popularization of the minor pentatonic scale (which ironically is now considered by some to be somewhat basic) was revolutionary during his day.

Call It Stormy Monday Video Guitar Lesson

T-bone loved his 9 chords and make great use of that in ‘Call It Stormy Monday’.

The first, slightly odd-looking chord you see sliding around is a G9!

The theoretical jazz chord police might even go as far as saying that T-Bone was using chord substitution.

This would be true as well since chords can be seen in different ways.

So what exactly is that first chord? A normal G7 would be G, B, D and F. To make it a dom9 chord we simply ad the next note from the Mixolydian scale, an A.

If we put these top notes together and leave the G for the bass player we get a G9 or a Bm7b5, same thing!

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