This one features a different movement for the picking hand. A minor pentatonicblues scale weeping willow guitar. While you may know that its important to practice jazz guitar licks, finding the right lines to work on can be a daunting task. Neoclassical, guitar arpeggios, pentatonic blues, harmonic minor, yngwie malmsteen style and vanhalen style guitar licks with tablature and video examples. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. This video is going to give you 3 examples of bebop licks which really use some of the core elements of. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and.
E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. Play the hammer on and mute the last note of the triplet. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. 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. Few guitarists, if any, have been as influential as eric clapton. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them. 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. 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.
Instead of learning 20 30 complete guitar solos which would take forever for the beginning student, ive extracted 52 of the most fundamental and commonly used licks and phrases. Great blues riffs for guitar pdf free download epdf. Its always good to have plenty of blues guitar licks in the key of e in your arsenal. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. Notice that the ending of each is the same they both follow a pentatonic line down to the 5 th of the key g in this case. By playing these licks, your fingers and ears will get used to playing lead guitar fairly quickly.
The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. Even if you know the chords and can play the right notes there is more to get it to sound like jazz. Learning jazz guitar licks is essential for anyone studying the genre. Ill show you 4 different variations of todays lick. Bobby harrison from absolute blues guitar presents an indepth blues guitar course with tab, standard notation fretboard diagrams two high quality backing tracks. By working jazz guitar licks, you increase your fretboard knowledge and build a strong connection to the jazz tradition at the same time. Practising this cell in isolation will make the lick easier to execute. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. This rock licks course comes complete with three dvds, and an audio cd with ten full on audio jam tracks. Its a great place to start and a feel that is guaranteed to show up at just about any open blues jam. You start off by learning how to practice each lick in this book. The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Every lick is defined by an overall contexteither a basic scale or a.
Chicken pickin mp3 albert collins style blues guitar lick. Each jam track includes a full band playing minus the lead guitar. Here is the list of the printable pdf methods with audio files available for download. A few lessons ago, we talked about how to make your licks fit with the chord youre playing over. Blues turnarounds for guitar fundamental changes music. Learn to play blues guitar by practicing the greatest free blues guitar riffs of all 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. 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. Guitar lovers licksriffs als pdf mit integriertem sound. Its not simply a cold list of licks, it is a breakdown of the playing styles of the worlds most important blues guitarists. Thanks chris this is a great lesson for us advancing beginners. Jazz guitar lessons pdf methods with audio files online.
It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. If we would play over a minor bluesprogression with for instance the chords am7, dm7 and em7 we cant use the major pentatonic scale. Thats what learning these example licks will do for you. With its 200 licks and phrases, conceived by the most famous guitarists, this coursebook is a veritable bluescyclopedia imperative for everyone working on blues. Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away. In this ebook, you learn everything you need to understand, play, and build classic blues licks. The first two licks well look at come from eric clapton and his from the cradle album an excellent classic blues record from claptons later library.
The licks presented here are classified according to genre ternary or binary licks, 128 licks, intros, turnarounds, riffs etc. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. After you learn these licks learn this five minute blues guitar solo. In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. The 30 licksriffs idea is brilliant for blues because you can really experiment and mix things up. Today ill show you 3 cool blues licks from the 50coolblueslicksimprovisation course.
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. 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. 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. Resolving to the root a of the i chord allows us the opportunity to follow with a lick that can chart an entirely new course, which is exactly what we see. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. 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. New licks will be added frequently so check back often. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys. 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. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in.
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. Each free guitar riff lesson has guitar tabs to show you exactly what strings to play. Blues guitar 101 classic licks sample jazz guitar online. Summertime blues, sunday bloody sunday sunshine of your love, suzie q sweet child o mine, tears in. A blues turnaround lick is a lick that is custom made to fit over the chords in the last two measures of the standard 12bar blues progression. Licks, riffs and rhythmic patterns in the style of hendrix, clapton, et al. 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. In this section, you will explore a wes blues solo, constructed using common concepts and phrases found in wes soloing output over this commonly. You wont just copy lines verbatim, youll internalize the language of the blues guitar masters and incorporate it into. Tbone walker showcased similar hot licks in his description blues and alimony blues. Turnaround blues guitar licks blues guitar lessons. The call and response procedure is an important aspect of larger blues melody structure. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since.