Blues Guitar Lick #1

This is Blues Lick number one. This one is pretty common but you can take it and do a lot of things with it. So I want to start really basic for this lick series here.

When I thought students I don’t fairly knew to the guitar. It’s actually fairly difficult for them. So I just wanted to explain that the lick that I just did was basically inside of an A minor pentatonic scale and so if you’re doing something like [Demonstration].

So what we’ve got here is—first note is bent up on the seventh fret, third string. It ended up the whole step so it supposed to match the ninth fret. Now when I bend, I use other dingers behind this third finger. So I’m not just trying to bend it with one finger like this so you’ve got the second finger behind it, even sometimes the first finger, so all three and then your thumbs up here to oppose that force. So you bend that up even you hit the fifth fret on the second string. So those two notes are the same when you bend that up [Demonstration]. And then, fifth fret on the first string. So I can use a bar which is when your fingers flat over two different strings, two or more strings, but in this case [Demonstration] and then when I bend the next note on the eighth fret of the second string and vibrato [Demonstration].

I have a lesson on vibrato. You want to check that out and even bending as well. So basically this would bend out to that note and this [Demonstration] so it’s really on a two different notes that you’re playing in this whole lick. So for the key of E up on the 12th fret, you can use that same lick.

What else I’d like to get you guys to do is learn how to use that lick and modify it for your own purposes. So obviously in a blues [Demonstration], you want to repeat the lick. As you’re phrasing you want to repeat that as some of your development but you can also take just a part of it, a fragment of that lick [Demonstration]. Play it backwards [Demonstration]. There I went up, and then I’ll play the—so, I just mix the order of the notes. And then you know, I have to play the lick.

You could have another idea, so you start to modify that basic idea. So it’s not just about repeating licks as I mentioned. You want to be able to understand it. All you’ve got is an E and an A which are part of the A seventh chord. There are couples of chords to [Demonstration]. So join some other licks that you can start to use your blues and combining them and make sure you understand them and try playing around with them, modifying them. All right, enjoy those.


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