for the answer listen to danny bryants song ' this is the blues.' The Blues are not really about age. It is more of a matter of heart. When you are old enough to put your heart into your music and make people feel what you are trying to put out in your music, then you are ready to play the blues. Old enough play the sax, then you can play the blues, it is the perfect instrument for getting the mood and tone. The Blues comes from within, You can be any age to play.
But it helps if your hearts broken. Every blues singer,writer and musician loved blues
at very early ages.I cant do any on of those things
but i can listen and appreciate the blues. (How old are you? I was about 13.)
In answer to your question, you need to have hands big enough to play guitar, assuming you play guitar. There are 3/4 scale guitars available if you are young and have small hands.
You have to know at least 3 chords since blues are based on 3 chords. In the key of E you would have to know the E, A and B or B7 chords. In the key of A you would have to know the A, D, and E or E7 chords.
The above is a serious answer. I don't know who Danny Bryant is and I've never heard "This Is The Blues" song that you mentioned. Old enough to memorize the 1-1-1-1-4-4-1-1-5-4-1-5 chord progression. YOU DONT HAVE TO BE ANY AGE IF THIS IS WHAT YOU LIKE THEN GO FOR IT - AND START BUYING AND LISTING TO THE BLUES MORE OFTEN Age doesn't matter, as long as you were "born under a bad sign" . lol! No age, def. not. Any age you can pick up a guitar, piano (well not pick up) or a sax or really any other instrument. What it comes down to is "Can you feel it". That is what separates good blues musicians from mediocre. a question like that is givin me the blues..... Old enough to hurt. Well, according to an email i have:
1. Most Blues begin, "Woke up this morning."
2. "I got a good woman" is a bad way to begin the Blues, 'less you stick something nasty in the next line, like "I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town."
3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes ... sort of: "Got a good woman - with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher - and she weigh 500 pound."
4. The Blues are not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch; ain't no way out.
5. Blues cars: Chevys and Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don't travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an' state-sponsored motor pools ain't even in the running. Walkin' plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin' to die.
6. Teenagers can't sing the Blues. They ain't fixin' to die yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, "adulthood" means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis.
7. Blues can take place in New York City but not in Palm Springs, Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in St. Paul or Tucson is just depression. Chicago, St.Louis, Memphis and Kansas City still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don't get rain.
8. A man with male pattern baldness ain't the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cuz you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg cuz you cracked it jumping out of a moving rail car is.
9. You can't have no Blues in an office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster.
10. Good places for the Blues:
a. highway
b. jailhouse
c. empty bed
d. bottom of a whiskey glass
Bad places:
a. Ashrams
b. gallery openings
c. Ivy League institutions
d. golf courses
11. No one will believe it's the Blues if you wear a suit, 'less you happen to be old, black and you slept in it.
12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues?
Yes, if:
a. you're older than dirt
b. you're blind
c. you shot a man in Memphis
d. you can't be satisfied
No, if:
a. you have all your teeth
b. you look like a CEO or management of any kind
c. the man in Memphis lived.
d. you have a retirement plan or trust fund.
13. Blues is not a matter of color. It's a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Gary Coleman could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues.
14. If you ask for water and Baby give you gasoline, it's the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are: a. wine
b. whiskey or bourbon
c. muddy water
d. black coffee
The following are NOT Blues beverages:
a. mixed drinks (especially when made with liqueurs)
b. kosher wine
c. Snapple
d. sparkling water
15. If it occurs in a cheap motel or a shotgun shack, it's a Blues death. Stabbed in the back by a jealous lover is another Blues way to die. So is the electric chair, substance abuse, and dying lonely on a broken down cot. You can't have a Blues death if you die during a tennis match or getting liposuction.
16. Some Blues names for women:
a. Sadie
b. Big Mama
c. Bessie
d. Fat River Dumpling
17. Some Blues names for men:
a. Joe
b. Willie
c. Little Willie
d. Big Willie
18. Persons with names like Sierra, Sequoia, Auburn, Tiffany and Rainbow can't sing the Blues no matter how many men they shoot in Memphis.
you have to be "old as dirt" =D
xXx eat your grits
call and respond
find a fork in the road
sell your soul to the devil
build a one string gee-tar
ask Robert if you can see his Johnson
cry cry cry i don't think age really matters,if something or someone has made you blue and you feel down put it into words,that's the blues You don't choose the blues, it chooses you. If its in your soul than you can play it anytime When you catch up with your soul down at the 'Crossroads' you are ready to play the blues..... grasshopper! You either have to be old, or feel like you never want to get old. Physical age does not matter. | 