Over 75% but under 100%. I listen to A LOT of blues, but not entirely.

I said 75%. It just seems that everything I enjoy playing, and mostly everything I really enjoy listening to that could be classified as guitar-based, borders on Blues.

I play mainly songs with 1, 4, 5 and 6 and that just allows for the blues lines to just come out. 75% Blues for me.

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I never posted in this... wow.


I am at least 33% blues... I love it.

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I don't listen to blues constantly, but it's all over my playing..

so about 50 % listening
100% playing


Got My Mojo working!!!

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I voted 75%...

It's funny, I really never thought about it before, but I play the blues more then anything else. Everytime I pickup the guitar, the first thing I do really is I work on expanding my penatonic boxes by soloing, blues style. I need to listen to more though.

Also been working the slide a lot lately.

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i love putting in little jazz and blues fills when playing a song. and it doesnt matter what kind of song ill just trhow it in to spice it up. i love blues and jazz because you can improvise most of the time. you just need relatively basic knowledge of scales and what not (well in most cases, not all) good ole blues, you gotta love it

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Damn, it's late. I just got in. This is prety cool. I defintely am into blues influenced rock pretty heavily. But if you look back, the early Stones, Zeplin, all that stuff had blues tunes on the records. ZZ Top. I really dig The Black Crowes (how many did I loose there). Jimi was basically a blues player, right?

I turn on Winamp to a blues station all the time, I think it's Paradynamic Blues Roadhouse (there are several to pick from). That's the stuff that makes me want to play. If I'm in a spot where I haven't been playing a lot, feeling lazy about it, I turn that stuff on and I can't help but pick it up and bend some strangs and play some funky shuffles in open postion.

Okay, I guess we can't consider Eddie VH as blues, but if you listen to the first few albums, those songs were based on some soulful riffs. I love Eddie's music, even this new stuff (better than some over the last few years), but blues and blues influenced rock are what makes me want to play.

my blues ratio is an exact 42.7861002%

i'd say 25%, but like other people mentioned, i go in phases.

i fear to incur the wrath of motor, but i think this is the first time in my life i've heard clapton and stevie called old fashioned blues. i have a hard time calling anything past 1970 blues, not because i think it died, it just seems... different. once the first generation of electric players faded, the blues changed to me.

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i dunno. i put 33 just because the first scale i learned was the blues scale, and it stayed that way for a good two years, and im pretty good at using it, but i dont really incorporate it into my writing. i use blues techniques in the more metal scales for my solo work, and it sounds 80s. i dont know. i dont spend that much time runnning scales. i just know a few so my songs dont sound too random and out of key. a little bit is good though.

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Strings = Zakk Wylde 10 - 60
Tubes = KT-66

Interesting ... I didn't think you would put that high of a number. Goes to show how little we know of each other.

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id say 75% just cause its not 100%...just about everything i play is blues based rock though...and when i practice its mostly blues licks and improvisational stuff.

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I find myself to be and do exactly the same.

What do the newbies have to say ..?

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Fat Strat into a Soldano, always.