Call It Stormy Monday T-Bone Walker Guitar Lesson

T-Bone is perhaps the most influential of all our blues legacy players mainly due to the fact that he almost single handedly invented blues lead playing on the electric guitar.

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

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

Though many of Walker’s licks have now become fairly cliché, it must be remembered that, read more...

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Guru Analysis

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

The first, slightly odd-looking chord you see sliding around is in fact a G9.

The theoretical jazz chord police might even go as far as saying that T-bone was using chord substitution, playing a Bm7b5 instead of a G9, this would be true as well since chords can be seen in many 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, in this case an A, read more...