Josh Smith gives a crash course in his approach to hybrid picking technique and demonstrates its uses in jump blues soloing.
ABILITY RATING
✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ Moderate/Advanced
Info
Key: E
Tempo: 90bpm
Will improve your
Country phrasing
Hybrid picking
Rhythmic variety
Jump blues is a style that dates back to the 1940s and was the precursor to R&B and rock and roll. It originated in the big bands of artists like Cab Calloway and Lionel Hampton, and is always played up-tempo. When musicians took the style outside of the big band context to pioneer its use in smaller combos, it helped lay the foundations of R&B, and was the bridge between the old and the new.
Jump blues was an important part of the swing revival of the 1990s and has an ongoing place as part
