Hi! This is Brad from Jam Play. Today, I’m going to teach a Blues Lick. It’s going to be bending and this can be used with the blues or pentatonic in the key of A, and that would be A minor. Anyway let’s just start out. The first one you want to go down to the 8th fret on the first string. The way I bend, I use 3 fingers here to do it. Some people use the pinky but for me it’s a little easier to use the 3rd finger and the 1st and 2nd to kind of reinforce it.
Anyway, we’ll just start with the bend. We’ll strike the note and we bend up, and then immediately back down. And when we bend that up, we’re bending it up one whole step so you’re bending it up to that note right there. So let’s do it one more time and one more little slower.
Okay onto the next part of it, we’re going to go to the 2nd string, 8th fret. We’re going to strike that note and you’re holding it at the same way. Bend it up, one whole step and down immediately.
Next part of it is the 3rd string. You’re going to use your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd finger to reinforce it on the 3rd string on the some fret. And let’s just do that right now. And now the last part of it is what I do is I go to the 4th string on the 5th fret using the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd to reinforce it, play it, and bend it up one whole step, and then back down right away. Now when we put up altogether it sounds like this, and one more time slow. There you have it Blues Lick.
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