These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Learn to play blues guitar by practicing the greatest free blues guitar riffs of all time. Blues progressions the following blues progressions are covered in this lesson. A lick is a short musical phrase which forms a useful element for improvising a guitar solo in the style of blues, rock and pop. A good place to start when learning various blues riffs is by relating them to chord forms and shapes on the guitar.
Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar. Insert the dvd into your player and the main menu screen appears. Country licks in country music, there are tons of cliched licks worthy of assimilating into your improv arsenalphrases appropriate for either acoustic or electric guitar. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo. Get the printable pdf including the lick section with integrated sound. This printable method is available as a pdf file containing 40 easy dominant jazz blues guitar lines with tabs, standard notation, analysis, audio files and scale. In this jazz blues guitar lesson, i am going to teach you how to convert jazz line to jazz blues.
Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. Essential blues licks tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including 12 bar blues riff, lick 2, lick 8, lick 7, lick 6. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons. In addition, all of these licks are from the same basic pentatonic pattern. Repeating pattern guitar licks these licks repeat a series of the same notes over and over and are used by everyone from chuck berry to jimi hendrix. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for.
This book of written lessons is an excellent tool and reference manual to develop and enhance your guitar skills. Beginner acoustic guitar lesson tom petty i wont back. These guitar licks arent terribly hard to play, but they are meant to be played fast. Full course of blues guitar lessons absolute blues guitar. 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. Blues is a language and learning to communicate and its very easy to learn the basics and get talking right away. Here are a couple of jam tracks to put your new guitar lick into practice. Like blues licks, country licks use minor and major pentatonic sounds with mixolydian shadings, like the classic openposition runs in figures 5ab, occurring in the key. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here.
Use these instructional materials to help open up guitar avenues and to examine different chords and rhythms, lead guitar techniques, learning the fretboard, music theory,scales, and the world of playing over chord changes. Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3. 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. Top 100 blues guitar songs download area guitar alliance. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Feb 27, 2019 and having a collection of go to blues guitar licks is vital for any guitar player. In the meanwhile there are lots of tutorial web sites and many videos on youtube about playing a solo. High quality video lessons, with tab, standard notation and exclusive backing tracks.
Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. He was duke ellingtons favorite guitar player and played with some of the biggest names in jazz music, such as dizzy gillespie, sonny rollins, quincy jones, john coltrane, jimmy smith, stan getz, billie holiday, and many more. Nov 25, 2019 under the circumstances, every guitarist should know plenty of openposition licks, especially when theyre playing blues and rock. You start off by learning how to practice each lick in this book. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes.
While you may know that its important to practice jazz guitar licks, finding the right lines to work on can be a daunting task. Blues guitar 101 classic licks sample jazz guitar online. The licks tend to be easy to play, and they make a great way to embellish the space between chords when youre playing rhythm. Here is the list of the printable pdf methods with audio files available for download. Pentatonic and modal guitar lick for soloing in the style pop. By playing these licks, your fingers and ears will get used to playing lead guitar fairly quickly. In these 3 licks i hope it will change how you view the pentatonic scale and most of all give you ideas of your own. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and high.
Kenny burrell has been a highindemand guitarist during his entire career. In this ebook, you learn everything you need to understand, play, and build classic blues licks. Figure 6 is the classic i chord lick, popularized by b. The iivv 145 the 8 bar blues the 12 bar blues a variation of the 12 bar blues roman numerals are used to show which chord or key changes are used in a progression. Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page.
King, he is the master of maximising guitar licks and particularly blues guitar licks. Break out of the pentatonic box for good and learn to jazz and funk up your blues lead guitar playing with these tasty blues licks. Every lick is defined by an overall contexteither a basic scale or a. Use these instructional materials to help open up lead guitar avenues and to examine different lead guitar licks, lick techniques, scales, and modal playing. This dvd set contains five dvds and three audio jam track cds. When i wrote this, i was a beginner myself, back in 1996. In this course we will work on our slow blues phrasing and key approaches to get our playing to the next level throughout 20 various and melodic licks youll easily learn new material to incorporate in your playing. By working jazz guitar licks, you increase your fretboard knowledge and build a strong connection to the jazz tradition at the same time. Our course of online blues guitar lessons is unlike any other. Jazz guitar licks pdf methods with audio files online.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. Any listing of the great blues guitar licks would have to include its fair share of b. Great blues riffs for guitar pdf free download epdf. Jan 30, 2019 learning jazz guitar licks is essential for anyone studying the genre.
Starting your journey into blues guitar is great fun. 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. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf. Should you need to know how to read tabs click here read me all tabs are standard tuning. 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. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. 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. Dec 21, 2016 guitar video lesson by chris harrington. His breakthrough album with john mayall is a top blues album of all time and its got loads of killer guitar playing on it. 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. See issue 2 of gc mag for our interview with jimmy. The first roman numeral i is the root or key that the progression is in.
Aug 10, 2017 play your 1st blues solo guitar lesson with 8 licks in a minor pentatonic duration. How to connect the pentatonic scale across the entire fretboard and use it in your solos duration. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. This 4 dvd and 2 cd training program will really develop your scales. Clapton took the blues of the 50s and 60s and found his own take on them to powerful effect. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player.