Its always good to have plenty of blues guitar licks in the key of e in your arsenal. Most of these are jimipowered but a few tip their hat to johnny winter as well. New licks will be added frequently so check back often. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar. Each jam track includes a full band playing minus the lead guitar. With its 200 licks and phrases, conceived by the most famous guitarists, this coursebook is a veritable bluescyclopedia imperative for everyone working on blues.
Here is the list of the printable pdf methods with audio files available for download. Play the hammer on and mute the last note of the triplet. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. Its not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing styles of the worlds most important blues guitarists. This one features a different movement for the picking hand. Its a great place to start and a feel that is guaranteed to show up at just about any open blues jam. Learnt to play the blues your way play blues guitar book 5 kindle edition by alexander, joseph, pettingale, tim. After you learn these licks learn this five minute blues guitar solo. While you may know that its important to practice jazz guitar licks, finding the right lines to work on can be a daunting task.
In this section, you will explore a wes blues solo, constructed using common concepts and phrases found in wes soloing output over this commonly. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. In this lesson, you will learn 12 rock guitar licks in detail, as well as the rhythm guitar part used for the backing track. In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. 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. Bobby harrison from absolute blues guitar presents an indepth blues guitar course with tab, standard notation fretboard diagrams two high quality backing tracks.
Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Blues in e is one of the most common keys to play in, so you can never have enough e blues licks.
This is a slightly longer lines using double stops. Practising this cell in isolation will make the lick easier to execute. Today ill show you 3 cool blues licks from the 50coolblueslicksimprovisation course. The 30 licksriffs idea is brilliant for blues because you can really experiment and mix things up. The music and guitar tab are from blues guitar band that teaches blues guitar the way its meant to be played in a blues band. You wont just copy lines verbatim, youll internalize the language of. Language sitemap guitars licks pentatonic blues 15. In this tutorial, we will learn 15 essential blues licks in the context of a 12 bar blues solo over a shuffle groove in the good oldfashioned key of a. Master these 50 slow blues you must know and you can. By working jazz guitar licks, you increase your fretboard knowledge and build a strong connection to the jazz tradition at the same time. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 if we write the similar progression as a type 2 progression, it would be like this. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. This rock licks course comes complete with three dvds, and an audio cd with ten full on audio jam tracks.
Neoclassical, guitar arpeggios, pentatonic blues, harmonic minor, yngwie malmsteen style and vanhalen style guitar licks with tablature and video examples. If we would play over a minor bluesprogression with for instance the chords am7, dm7 and em7 we cant use the major pentatonic scale. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. Chicken pickin mp3 albert collins style blues guitar lick. The examples cover everything from phrasing techniques to turnar. Blues licks one of the aspects of wes playing that many guitarists explore in their studies is the blues, as wes was a master of bluesinspired phrases and soloing over the 12bar blues form. E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. Thanks chris this is a great lesson for us advancing beginners. 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.
High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. Master major blues and minor blues scales with these essential fingerings, definitions, and guitar licks with tab, notation, diagrams, and audio. The final group of licks are all derived from one of the greatest slow blues of all time jimi hendrixs red house. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. I started this series because i great way to learn new blues vocabulary is to learn a new blues lick every week and work it into your playing. The licks presented here are classified according to genre ternary or binary licks, 128 licks, intros, turnarounds, riffs etc. 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. In this video lesson i demonstrate four of my favorite slowblues style guitar licks. The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Learning jazz guitar licks is essential for anyone studying the genre. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and.
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