It would be more helpful if you place the tabs for these licks. Every lick is defined by an overall contexteither a basic scale or a basic tonality, depending on its melodic single notes or chordal nature. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. A turnaround chord sequence, and a turnaround lick in blues guitar lesson 9. 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.
While this blues guitar arrangement is mostly a riff and some bass notes, below are a few of the chord shapes that are used as well. Solo acoustic 12 bar blues in e with lead licks the 12 bar blues is a standard chord progression used in thousands of songs in almost every genre. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. 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. Tbone walker showcased similar hot licks in his description blues and alimony blues. Rock blues licks scales and applications in pdf ebook format shipped to you on a plain nonlabeled cd for you to label any way you wish. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. This unique ebook contains sheet music and audio files of licks examples, from which we show you how to implement them in the blues. Here is a useful blues lick that sounds great over the iv chord. There are only three basic chords, namely, e, a 7 and b7. Pentatonic licks are a key characteristic of authenticsounding blues. The fundamental chord progression is e, e7, a, a7 and b7. E licks online guitar lesson by david hamburger from fingerstyle blues factory were going to start with nearly a dozen licks to play on an e chord, some in the steadybass style, some in the alternatingbass style. The first thing you often hear on any blues record is a taster of what is to come, courtesy of some fancy or soulful licks.
That said, the blues in e gives guitarists a bit of a. In this first jim hall guitar lick, you see the e altered scale being used over the. How blues chords and scales are related, so that you can nail that perfect note over each chord. My concern is with content and quality of educational material not fancy labels and pretty pictures. Well find that the turnaround occurs in these last two measures. If you want to download a free ebook of 15 ii valt i licks then subscribe to my newsletter. Lessons scales blues licks in am tab ultimate guitar. My first experience of acoustic blues was in a uk folk club in the 60s. There are many types of blues rhythms but the most common is the iivv 12bar blues.
Normally, the e chord progression starts with an e chord and i jam along trying techniques from famous blues men, and also surprising myself with completely new sounds. We will start from where we ended in these lessons, so it might. P1 flat 5 slide starting my new weekly blues lick series is a great lick from stevie ray vaughan. Below is a pdf with the tablature and chords for this guitar lesson. Blues guitar chords comprehensive blues chord chart. This is a 12 bar blues riff and is in triplets i do not take credit for this e. You will find here licks from the major and minor blues scales, in different rhythmic patterns and much more contains 30 piano sheets and audio samples of improvisations based on blues licks. E ad g be gu tuned to e a d g b e gu box73 tuned to.
The two main barre chord forms used in blues are the e and a form or shape. At the same time you need to also develop some blues phrases and techniques. Any listing of the great blues guitar licks would have to include its fair. Starting on the v chord e means weve jumped in towards the end of the progression, just in time for the turnaround. Adjust the start fret option to further highlight a finger pattern for playing the selected scale in a different position on the fretboard. Boring an audience is the cardinal sin of any performing art and playing acoustich blues guitar is no different. Awesome blues licks best blues guitar licks and scales. It is usually in 44 4 crotchet beats per bar and uses 1 chord per bar with 12 bars in total. Of course, there are inversions and hybrid variations, but if you stick to the basic chords and many classic blues men did, then its sometimes tough to make it interesting. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys. In this video guitar lesson im going to show you a blues lick in e that uses some triplet pulloffs. Blues in e is one of the most common keys to play in, so you can never have enough e blues licks. Learn 141 jazz guitar licks over common chords and chord. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated.
Theres nothing like a good 12 bar blues to let you throw in a few blues licks while youre jamming around, but the actual rhythm. Jguitars scale calculator will draw scale diagrams showing the fretboard with notes in the selected scale highlighted. Furthermore, the harmonic situation of each lick is described via the chord symbols i, iv, or v below the tab staff. Starting with some easy blues chords, we of course have e major, which is. You can find one example of a turnaround chord sequence in e in the lesson blues guitar lesson 8.
Blues in f upper register modern voicings blues chord forms for chord melody playing. 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. Its always good to have plenty of blues guitar licks in the key of e in your arsenal. This uses a half step and whole step bend from the same fret. In a 12 bar blues, we always play the iv chord on the 5th bar, so thats where you can throw in this type of lick. Blues progressions are almost exclusively played in 44 time and dominated by the root i chord, with the iv and v chords providing that extra bit of flavor to keep things interesting. You can use these licks over the i chord on a blues in e, or, in some cases, as the v chord on a blues in a. Slowly play the 12 bar blues in e pattern using these chords to get used to changing chords. In this lesson, ill show you a bunch of small 2note chords that you can mix with your blues licks, and which chord of the progression each can be used over. The standard 12bar blues is a iivv chord progression most typically divided into three fourbar segments. 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.
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. 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. More on the guitar blues shuffle rhythm ideas on a intermediate level. These chords are so called as they are rooted on the e and a strings respectively. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. How to shift from playing one scale over a chord progression to using a different scale over each chord. Often these blues progressions will contain dominant chords such as 7th chords. 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. You can play the 12 bar blues pattern with different strumming rhythms or strumming patterns. Blues licks ideas in e blues guitar ideas lesson with pdf tab. These 5 licks use only notes from the minor pentatonic, and incorporate string bending as most blues licks do.
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. It can take a little practice getting each bend in tune. Heres an example of how a common blues progression. This lesson comes with over 30 minutes of video, pdf tabs and six audio backing tracks. Apr 14, 2016 here are some key of e blues guitar licks in open position in the style of lightnin hopkins, freddie. Solo acoustic 12 bar blues in e with lead licks andy guitar. It is a framework that virtually any music can work on top of. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them. Theyre all very very common licks that youll find most blues players using, so you want to put these in your bag right away. Start off by practicing the fingering for the basic chords. Pdf e book lead guitar licks lesson pentatonic scales rock. The first roman numeral i is the root or key that the progression is in.
Jimi hendrix major chord concept and embellishments for blues. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. Play keeping your own tempo, then try keeping time with a metronome. The core of this lesson is of course the 5 licks that contain some of the characteristic melodies, phrasing and techniques found in blues mixed with arpeggios, extensions and chromatic passing notes that you find in jazz. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Here is an example with the root the first note of the progression in the key of a. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar. Tbone walker guitar lesson slow blues guitar licks. 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. Blues progressions keys of bb and g, 1976 blues progressions keys of bb and e, 1977 blues progressions key of g.
The solo ends with a common chromatic blues turnaround that lands on chord tones from c7 ge. Masters of delta blues guitar blues licks ideas in e blues. To analyze this were going to spell out the notes in the a minor pentatonic scale, which are. Become a premiere member to access this fulllength. Almost by definition, an acoustic blues in e is the original blues. You can use either of these positions for the 1, 4 or 5 chords in a blues progression, but its most common to use the e form for the 1 chord and the a form for the 4 and 5 chords. For example, you can strum a triplet pattern for each bar. Here are some key of e blues guitar licks in open position in the. Theres also a blues jam track in the key of e you can use to play along with as well. You should experiment with changing the ending of the lick. The final goal is tu fuse this and play jazz blues phrasing using slides, hammeron and pull offs etc. The 10 best blues guitar chords chord progressions, 12. As the e minor pentatonic e g a b d phrases in figure 1ab illustrate, blues licks are typically inflected with frethand pitch bends, frethand vibrato, and legato moves like hammerons and pulloffs.