The blues shuffle riff is a popular sound and often used by guitar players like tbone walker going to chicago, tbone shuffle and stevie ray vaughan cold shot, pride and joy, travis walk. You know what a blues lick is and you are making your own jazz licks. This article is about the career of eric clapton and 100 blues licks pdf it includes information about his influences, bands hes played in, the cds and dvds hes released, 100 blues licks pdf and the musical equipment hes used. Texas blues guitar licks guitarjamz premium lessons.
In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. Dec 21, 2016 thanks everyone, i hope this is a really fun and achievable lesson for players starting out on their blues adventure. It has all the essentials you need and packed with cool features. Also learn how to easily adjust this pattern to play over a complete 12 bar blues. 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. Top 100 blues guitar songs download area guitar alliance.
Extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 guitar. I believe that the song should come first in any kind of music. 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. This course is a structured curriculum to get you comfortable and creative on the acoustic guitar. Students should, of course, study the solos of great jazz players to derive even more source material.
In this lick, there are two concepts that you can take out and explore further in the practice room. Great blues riffs for guitar pdf free download epdf. His amplifiers of choice were a fender champ in the studio, and either a fender showman or a marshall onstage. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them.
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. 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. This lick is used a great deal by just about every blues and rock player. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. Learn classic blues devices you can easily add to your playing.
In this ebook, you learn everything you need to understand, play, and build classic blues licks. You start off by learning how to practice each lick in this book. 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. Pentatonic scales are killer scales to play over blues and over iivv changes. Three mustknow blues licks for older beginner guitar players. Learn to add licks and fills within blues progressions and play lead and rhythm at the same time. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and high. Few guitarists, if any, have been as influential as eric clapton. 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.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. They are explained perfect in detail for me as beginner, and combined with the guitar pro tabs, provide a nice combination of challenge and lots joy playing. Check out my free video lessons on my free lessons page. This first module in blues lead guitar called essential blues lead guitar will take you through the techniques, vocabulary, scales and. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and.
Leigh fuge of mgr music works through 10 easy blues guitar licks for beginners that can be quickly worked into a practice routine. Three mustknow blues licks for older beginner guitar. Jan 12, 2018 he was also acredited to introducing 100 blues licks pdf and other great blues guitar training manuals. The call and response procedure is an important aspect of larger blues melody structure. Summertime blues, sunday bloody sunday sunshine of. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master.
In the meanwhile there are lots of tutorial web sites and many videos on youtube about playing a solo. 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. Welcome to the blues licks space, you can download an example in pdf format or guitar pro 7, for you to play. 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 course licks tabbed out in included guitar tab pdf ebook. Many of the licks do not resolve so that you will be forced to use your ear when inserting them into your playing. Down the road, i suggest trying to learn additional lead guitar avenues that i mention. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson.
You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. Any listing of the great blues guitar licks would have to include its fair share of b. How professional blues guitarists use the minor pentatonic scale while its true that some people like the dissonance that is caused by playing the cnote over the a7 chord, most experienced blues guitarists will choose to either. Beginner acoustic guitar lesson tom petty i wont back. Even though these are slow blues licks, theres no reason why they wont sound good at faster speeds. Can play some of the blues licks covered in this session in any key. At first you will be utilizing pentatonic scales over these blues and rock jams.
Ive also put together 5 play along tracks in various keys feels and styles. This printable method is available as a pdf file containing 40 easy dominant jazzblues guitar lines with tabs, standard notation, analysis, audio files and scale. 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. Every lick is defined by an overall contexteither a basic scale or a. This guitar lick is actually constructed using a simple system that i teach in my guitar lick factory course. Learn to use blues scales to build licks and connect musical ideas. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo. Copying the solos of professionals is a great way for young players to. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Although blues is known primarily for using the minor pentatonic scale, this lick demonstrates the sweet sounding alternative that the major pentatonic scale has. Figure 6 is the classic i chord lick, popularized by b. Blues guitar 101 classic licks sample jazz guitar online.
King, he is the master of maximising guitar licks and particularly blues guitar licks. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Pentatonic scales are killer scales to play over blues and over i. 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. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since.
Its always good to have plenty of blues guitar licks in the key of e in your arsenal. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys. In this video guitar lesson you are going to learn a fun cool sounding rock blues lick in the key of a. Use my search bar to find exactly what youre looking for. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Pentatonic and modal guitar lick for soloing in the style. A good place to start when learning various blues riffs is by relating them to chord forms and shapes on the guitar. Guitar coach jamming in the em pentatonic the magic. This simple 5 note pattern derived from the mixolydian mode is a great way to get started using the scale quickly. The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Here are some free pdfs used to supplement my free video lessons. While blues rhythm guitar suffices with a standard 12 bar blues shuffle, a cool shuffle riff is often more fun to play and interesting listen to. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and high quality.
Lesson 9 how to play blues guitar with blues guitar. Erics main guitar at this time had become the fender stratocaster. After the pentatonic minor scale and major scale, the blues scale is probably the most widelyused scale in guitar improvisation. Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar.
Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar with. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. In the licks i can then easier explain where we are pulling the different parts from. Guitar lovers licks riffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. Here are some free pdf s used to supplement my free video lessons. 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. When i wrote this, i was a beginner myself, back in 1996. 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. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Waggoner these sheets may be used as source material for students working on solos over blues progressions in f. Guitar coach jamming in the em pentatonic overview easy soloing. Traditionally, many guitarist learn the minor pentatonic scale first and relate all other scales such as the. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues.
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. Blues in e is one of the most common keys to play in, so you can never have enough e blues licks. These are not lessons, but supplements to my lessons. Hi im steve trovato and welcome to 50 voodoo blues licks you must know. Pentatonic blues lick pattern 3, pattern 4, pattern 5, pattern 1, pattern 2, modal lick aeolian, locrian, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian 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. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. Despite its name, the blues scale is not only used in blues music. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. The first pattern, figure 1, is a fullblown a blues scale in 5th position. Even though it may seem like theres a lot to this guitar lick, its really just a few lead guitar building blocks that are put together like legos. Starting your journey into blues guitar is great fun. 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.
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