Essential Blues Licks (Part 2 of 3)
Published on 26 January 2016
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More Essential blues licks -- Part 2
Blues improvising is very modular. By that I mean that once you have mastered a particular lick you can use it over and over again and the strange thing is that your audience don't necessarily notice that you are recycling!
This is because licks are very easily disguised by small changes in rhythmic emphasis, tempo and dynamics. Add to that the way in which one can endlessly vary repeating different parts of a lick and also adding, subtracting or altering a note here and there to form new licks based on the old.
So in today's lesson we are going to look at some fairly commonly used licks in each of the five positions and suggest ways that you could use each lick as a point of departure to create a whole library of your own licks.
You'll find tab for all these licks in the printouts section of the toolbox next to the lesson on the website at http://www.secretguitarteacher.com
Might help to print that off before we start if you can.
We're showing you these in the key of A so we start by lining up with the first position in A. here's the detail (see video).
Here are a few variations you can try. Changes of:
Rhythmic emphasis
Tempo
Dynamics
Add notes
Subtract notes
Link to adjacent positions
Let's see how these sound against the blues in A backing track (see video).
Try copying some of my licks, but also try out some ideas of your own
OK on to the second position. A step at a time. Let's try some variations ...
Let's see how these sound against the backing track (see video)
OK on to the third position. Here's the detail..
OK on to the fourth position
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