Instant access to the 17 page pdf filled with scales 7 tips. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. Often these blues progressions will contain dominant chords such as 7th chords. In this video guitar lesson im going to show you a blues lick in e that uses some triplet pulloffs. It is a framework that virtually any music can work on top of. Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away.
They are the foundation on which a solid house of blues is built. Insert the dvd into your player and the main menu screen appears. If you want to learn to solo over these cool blues shuffle riffs, learn to play cool blues licks, create your own licks, really dive into the blues scale shapepositions, learn the tricks and tools to master the pentatonic blues scale inside out, and solo and improvise over the entire neck, check out. 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. I seem to remember back then somebody posted a link to a cool free pdf full of blues licks. Great blues riffs for guitar pdf free download epdf. How to play blues guitar licks over any blues chord. Presented here for your edification are 12 classic blues phrases, each with a certified pedigree. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. 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. King, he is the master of maximising guitar licks and particularly blues guitar licks.
Besides the standard major and minor scales, there are two scales that are more common to playing blues and boogiewoogie. Today i will teach you three cool blues licks to spice up your improvisation skills. Now build up a blues lick starter kit, using the following licks and taking more from the songs discussed on this site. Blues turnarounds for guitar fundamental changes music. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys. Licks are the musical sentences of the blues language. Well now that you know the minor pentatonic pattern 2, you should probably start using it. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them. Licks are short musical phrases used in jazz, blues and rock improvising. If youre used to playing the minor pentatonic scale and try to copy your licks. 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.
If you are not familiar with the numbering system of the chords then please check out the lesson on chord construction on pages 28 29. Pr e fa c e in music, the vivi turnaround, or blues turnaround is one of several patterns traditionally found in the twelvebar blues, and commonly found in rock and roll. 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. In this lesson, we will examine the righthand riffs and licks that make the boogiewoogie style so infectious. And to get you going we are now looking at some licks words in this very fine position to get you going. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to.
Ive written up two sets of solos to give you plenty of ideas for improvising. The 30 musthave blues piano licks blues transcription and bass arrangements. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Blues progressions keys of bb and g, 1976 blues progressions keys of bb and e, 1977 blues progressions key of g.
You can drop any of these 12 classic phrases into a bluesbased progression and come out smiling. This note is the high e string and also the root note of the e minor and the e major pentatonic scale, which makes it perfect to use as a glue to form one compelling blues lick out of the two smaller licks. Playing the right things at the right time, especially in the turnaround, can take your blues playing from hacky to authentic in no time. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. Riffs, on the other hand, are usually licks or phrases that are repeated as part of a tune or improvised backings. 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 improvising and jamming the blues. Hello, i used to have an account here last year, but ill be darned if i can remember what it was. The guitar riff makes use of slides, pulloffs, and a slight bends called smears. Blues turnarounds are an extremely important part of the blues form. It is not only the basic structure for blues, but is also used extensively in rock, country, jazz and pop music. Most turnarounds can also be used as intros or endings. If you are just starting out in blues you should definitely. Make sure you click on each sound file to hear the lick played.
Solo acoustic 12 bar blues in e with lead licks the 12 bar blues is a standard chord progression used in thousands of songs in almost every genre. This is because the turnaround in bars 11 and 12 takes us back turns around to. Blues in f upper register modern voicings blues chord forms for chordmelody playing. Remember that when you are playing a blues solo, you still use the iivv chord progression or in general the chord progression of the song. Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style. For those willing to pay their dues and play the blues, these licks are a rite of passage and a continuous source of inspiration. As the e minor pentatonic e g a b d phrases in figure 1ab illustrate, blues licks are typically inflected with frethand pitch bends, frethand vibrato, and legato moves like hammerons and pulloffs. For all you blues beginners out there, in this video i will teach you the a pentatonic scale and three basic blues licks that use this scale. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo. Beginner acoustic guitar lesson tom petty i wont back.
This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Now lets take our study of the blues scale further and use the notes of the minor blues scale, the major blues scale and the extended blues scale to create different types of blues licks. The best famous blues guitar licks to learn learn famous. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. Rocking the blues jimmy dillon is something of a blues legend and this 3 dvd. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. We have included patterns for the e pentatonic and natural minor scales to help. In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. There are a lot of blues licks out there that sound a little ordinary so here are some cool blues ingredients to make your improvisation sound more alive. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. Start with playing around the corresponding notes, for example in the key of e.
The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3. Blues rock pentatonic licks gilmour style guitar lesson. Some players have a memorised collection or repertoire of favourite licks that they will throw into a solo every now and then. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation.
Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Here is the tablature for the whole blues guitar arrangement. While this blues guitar arrangement is mostly a riff and some bass notes, below are a few of the chord shapes that are used. Blues is a language and learning to communicate and its very easy to learn the basics and get talking right away. The 12 bar blues in the key of e is the most popular for guitar players because the key itself well to improvisation the key of a being right up there. There are many types of blues rhythms but the most common is the iivv 12bar blues. Michael ochs archivesgetty images yes, many blues and rock licks are cliches, but theres a good reason for that they sound so cool that listeners and. Blues in e is one of the most common keys to play in, so you can never have enough e blues licks. Guitar lovers licksriffs als pdf mit integriertem sound. The e minor pentatonic scale blues guitar unleashed. These may repeat exactly over and over if they fit any chord changes, but very. Solo acoustic 12 bar blues in e with lead licks andy guitar. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. A minor pentatonicblues scale weeping willow guitar.
This is a 12 bar blues riff and is in triplets i do not take credit for this e. 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. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar. This comes from not being aware of the order of the notes in the scale. While learning blues guitar licks is an important step to take, youll need more than. King got his start in the early 1950s as the beale street blues boy, but rapidly became a national figure with an approach too broad to be pigeonholed by a particular geographic location. When we play it like this it sounds like jazz or a bebop lick but not really like blues. Pentatonic licks are a key characteristic of authenticsounding blues.
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