[Bullish]

Blues is way too much rudimentary 1-4-5s and repetitive in every way. I'm very eclectic in my listening as I do like all types of music including freeform and fusion jazz. I do like some blues and have played a lot in my career. I just find it the most boring of any type of music to play. As a musician I have found that players who are not talented enough to play technical rock and jazz songs gravitate to blues which is much easier to play comparatively. 1-4-5s are basically songs like ‘Johnny be good’ and ‘Tush’ for example and are very formulaic and rudimentary. They're not very interesting or hard to play, in fact I could play them in my sleep. Blues is full to the brim with easy peasy stuff like that.

Super boring to play. As a guy who's been playing guitar and bass almost my entire life I feel I have a standing to comment on a thread like this.

[LouieFisk]

“As a guy who’s been playing guitar and bass”
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If you’re stuck playing rhythm guitar or bass in standard blues, it usually isn’t too exciting.

[Ignatz]

Bkmk

[bluejean]

Well you are super impressed with yourself. I’m not. Rock and Roll was born from the blues and you have a purely technical view and no soul whatsoever. After all of your experience you have yet to comprehend the heart of the thing. If you don’t by now you probably never will. Your loss.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

As a musician I have found that players who are not talented enough to play technical rock and jazz songs gravitate to blues which is much easier to play comparatively.

That sounds like just another way for you to say "I like technical rock and jazz songs better than blues," and then attempting to legitimize it by grafting an unrelated measure to it, in order to give your subjective opinion a whiff of objectivity.

Hooray for "technical" rock and jazz musicians. Yeah, there are some really impressive technical guys out there whose skills are just beyond the ken of mere mortals. But just as often, some of that stuff--and just to be contrarian I'd say most--is wholly without soul of any kind, and speaks to the human psyche as much as a bill of ladling from Ikea does.

The "greatness" of blues or any other genre depends chiefly on what you like, personally, not any measure like "how hard it is to play."

The progression over which Duane Allman solos in "Dreams" consists of two chords--like a D7sus4 or something and a D7--and yet it's so dripping with raw power and emotion and soul it sets your heart on fire. Same can be said about BB King's solo opening over "How Blue Can You Get"...Jimi Hendrix on "Red House"...hell, Jimi Hendrix on "Who Knows" (over one chord)...let's see...anything by Robert Johnson, Big Bill Bronzy...tons of Eric Clapton's work...goes on and on.

All of it might be "easy," technically, to play, but that's not nearly the only metric used to determine musical greatness.

Just say you don't like blues music, dude.

My standing: 30+ years of guitar/bass and other assorted string instruments, currently still gigging.

[Junior_G]

The blues isn’t really a musical genre; it’s more like endless variations of a single song.

[Chode]

if by technical you mean a lot of notes real fast, well, feh...

Neil Young is much more powerful and shows more emotion simply riding on one note in Cinnamon Girl

but that's just me, then again i only played in the 70's and 80's so what do i know