Lick of the Week 11

Lick of the week # 11
Tutorial

So this week's lick of the week, as I just played, it is based in the A blue scale, which you are probably familiar with and it's really just sort of a fast lick that you could use and it's easy to transpose to the other blues scale patterns. So let me play it very slowly for you and of course, it's all tabbed up in the beginning, that's right out of the A blues box.

One thing about that, is that I am using F # there, it's kind of like cancelling the Dorian scale and it's also got an E-flat in there which is of course, the blue note. So the flat five there, this is a A8 power chord, those being played over an A7 chord, a-minor, all of those kind of chords would work, A-major so it's. So there it isn't the key of A; if I remove that to the key of D, transpose it, that's obviously in the 10th position, right at the D blues box, G, E and you can hear at the very end of that; I am bending the high note up a whole step, in this case, the fifteenth fret. I know I am bending the last note. If I were to play in that over, let's say a major chord or dominant 7 chord, I might bend it slightly sharp to kind of hint to that G# in this case up a little bit.

But if I would be playing it over a minor chord, I would probably just kind of do something else, so you are going to pull that note sharp if you are playing it over a minor chord, but any kind of chord with the major third in it is definitely okay to that on.

So that's the lick of the week.

Here it starts with the fifth fret, on the sixth string and be the fifth to the third to the fifth fret and then to the third fret on the 5th fret. On 4, you are going to play a G power chord in the fifth position, my first finger is on the fifth fret of the fourth string, my third finger is on the seventh fret of the third string, my fourth finger is on the eighth fret of the second string.


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