The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar with. By working jazz guitar licks, you increase your fretboard knowledge and build a strong connection to the jazz tradition at the same time. Three mustknow blues licks for older beginner guitar players. Feb 27, 2019 the licks in this video lesson are all slow blues licks and easy to play, perfect for a beginner guitar player, but sound so good that even advanced guitar players will find great uses for them.
Hi im steve trovato and welcome to 50 voodoo blues licks you must know. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys. Even though these are slow blues licks, theres no reason why they wont sound good at faster speeds. Top 100 blues guitar songs download area guitar alliance. Here are a couple of jam tracks to put your new guitar lick into practice. Leigh fuge of mgr music digs into 10 interesting and helpful lead blues guitar licks, ideal for beginners or novice blues guitar players looking for an injection of practice ideas. This simple 5 note pattern derived from the mixolydian mode is a great way to get started using the scale quickly. Pentatonic scales are the most common scales used in most genres of music. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them.
Blues is a language and learning to communicate and its very easy to learn the basics and get talking right away. Introduction why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. King, he is the master of maximising guitar licks and particularly blues guitar licks. Grab a copy of blues guitar 101 classic licks today, crank your amp, and youre on your way to playing killer blues solos in no time.
Jan 30, 2019 learning jazz guitar licks is essential for anyone studying the genre. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Larry mccabe tallahassee, florida how to use this book this book contains a collection of 101 blues turnaround licks for the guitar. In this lesson youll learn the one scale that is responsible for about 95% of all the blues licks you hear the minor pentatonic and minor blues scale. In this lick, there are two concepts that you can take out and explore further in the practice room. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. So i picked my personal favourite 7 blues masters and did 8 licks from each so over a years worth of material for a lick a week. Thats where blues guitar 101 classic licks helps you reach your blues soloing goals. Enjoy this guitar lick, and i hope to help you develop your own arsenal of cool lead guitar licks in my guitar lick factory course. Stevie ray vaughan srv is for many people on of the finest blues players of all time and he has loads of awesome licks that are great to steal and work into your own playing. Extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 guitar.
Muddy waters and howlin wolf developed the early versions of chicago blues by amplifying their rootsy delta licks in a combo setting with tunes little red rooster, and spoonful. Blues licks are an essential part of learning to solo and improvise on your guitar. Primarily for the electric guitar, the music can also be played on an acoustic guitar that has an unwound g string. All the licks in this book are presented in the key of a minor so try playing them over an a minor chord. But this book can also be used on its own as a stand alone reference guide to scale diagrams, lead guitar soloing strategies, learning to play over chord changes, and more. While you may know that its important to practice jazz guitar licks, finding the right lines to work on can be a daunting task. Future the second pattern, figure 2, is a reduced version of this same scale, which. Additionally, a fender stratocaster or telecaster was played for the electric slide licks. Thanks everyone, i hope this is a really fun and achievable lesson for players starting out on their blues adventure. His amplifiers of choice were a fender champ in the studio, and either a fender showman or a marshall onstage. Waggoner these sheets may be used as source material for students working on solos over blues progressions in f. This rock licks course comes complete with three dvds, and an audio cd with ten full on audio jam tracks. Well learn how to extend the blues and pentatonic scales out past the open position to cover some of the other licks in down to the station. Jan 12, 2018 he was also acredited to introducing 100 blues licks pdf and other great blues guitar training manuals.
Licks are memorable musical phrases that can be strung together to create a solo, fill in behind a vocal phrase or simply spruce up the end of a tune. Students should, of course, study the solos of great jazz players to derive even more source material. Erics main guitar at this time had become the fender stratocaster. Nowadays, you might see a lot of fancy young guitar players filling up every bar of a song with screaming guitar licks, but this is not really in the blues tradition.
In the recording of these licks, a national style o resophonic guitar was used for the licks in open d tuning and a dobro f60 classic was used for the licks in open g. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar. The goal for any guitar solo is to create a seamless composition, when you are forced to use your ear to guide you from the end of a lick into your next move it will encourage you to create more melodic and continuous lines. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. At first you want to concentrate on the scales that we teach and utilize throughout the dvd lessons the minor and major pentatonic scale and the blues scale. I believe that the song should come first in any kind of music. Pentatonic scales are killer scales to play over blues and over iivv changes. Scales are the building blocks to creating licks and the roadmap to the fretboard.
Copying the solos of professionals is a great way for young players to. Starting your journey into blues guitar is great fun. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo. With this ebook, you learn essential licks from legendary players, as well as all the scales, arpeggios, and concepts behind those riffs. When i wrote this, i was a beginner myself, back in 1996.
This hourglass shape fits neatly inside the pentatonic box so its a quick way to start to mixing it with your favorite pentatonic blues licks. In the meanwhile there are lots of tutorial web sites and many videos on youtube about playing a solo. Each lick is presented in both notation and tablature. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. Future the first pattern, figure 1, is a fullblown a blues scale in 5th position. Ive also put together 5 play along tracks in various keys feels and styles. A good blues guitar player doesnt need to be fast he needs to know when to play which note like a good storyteller without a book. Each jam track includes a full band playing minus the lead guitar. In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar. This first module in blues lead guitar called essential blues lead guitar will take you through the techniques, vocabulary, scales and concepts youll need to start. Also learn how to easily adjust this pattern to play over a complete 12 bar blues. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. It has all the essentials you need and packed with cool features.