It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Its a great place to start and a feel that is guaranteed to show up at just about any open blues jam. Tabs, fingerings, box patterns, licks, pdf and more. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. Peter gelling progressive blues guitar solos download. After you learn these licks learn this five minute blues guitar solo. In this lesson ill demonstrate how to play a slow blues solo in the key of a minor without using a backing track. All about the blues note flat 5, and when you should play it. How to play a simple 12bar blues progression, so you can play authentic blues solos. Next, well have a look at a typical jazz blues solo over a blues in bb.
Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. Learn how to use repetition to build tension in your solos. Electric guitar solo tabs pdf guitar tabs and guitar pro. Top 100 blues guitar songs download area guitar alliance. This lesson will show you how to integrate other scale options that will add more color to your solos and give you more creative room to express yourself. Click here to download a printable pdf of this lessons notation. If you ever feel like your solos are just a string of unconnected licks then this approach is a really good way of adding a bit of a storyline to your soloing. Acoustic blues guitar lesson in a solo composition ep208. I hope you can use the arpeggios and these ideas to get a firmer grip on jazz blues improvising.
Top 100 blues songs pdf zipped top 100 blues power tab zipped download individual songs alberts alley by albert king pdf. And what a world of difference that one note can make. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. On this page youll find all my free tabs pdfs the videos for these tabs are on the page free guitar tabvideos if you like the free tabs on this page, please consider donating via paypal using the button below. This example is in the key of a, but you can move it up or down the fretboard to explore other keys. If youve never done any blues soloing, this is a good lesson for. How to play blues guitar solos that sound mean and aggressive. A transcription of the solo i play in the video around 8. Major and minor blues scales guitar tab and essential licks. Transform your blues guitar playing with this comprehensive tutor that will set your solos on fire. All blues concert g7 on the miles davis columbia recording kind of blue 1959 miles davis 5 9.
Electric guitar solo tabs for intermediates and beginners. 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. Spice up your blues solos with jazz for the blues guitarist. In fact there are so many other scales that we can use to solo over a blues progression, that it would be a pitty to only use one scale all of the time. The music and guitar tab are from blues guitar band that teaches blues guitar the way its meant to be played in a blues band. The two licks below use notes of both minor and major pentatonic scales. When we combine that with position two of e major pentatonic, we are still.
David hodge guitar lessons 12 bar blues, guitar columns by david hodge, how to play guitar solos, scales and modes for guitar, turning scales into solos last time out, in the major and the minor, we listened to the tonal qualities of both the major and the minor pentatonic scales when used for soloing over a typical blues progression. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. You might say that melodies and guitar solos are horizontal laid out in a straight line and that chords and harmonies are vertical stacked up. Guitar soloing is melodic that is to say, it consists of a sequence of notes. Lesson 3 the metronome practice chords, scales and licks 101. Every solo has an bonus mp3 without guitar, but with bass and drums so you practice with it. Play the hammer on and mute the last note of the triplet. In this weeks guitar lesson, youll learn how to combine the pentatonic scales major and minor with chord shapes from caged to play the blues. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. My goal with this report, and the accompanying videos, is to hopefully help you with your mental model of. As in the previous lessons in this series, well provide you with mp3 sound files in order to help you create your own solos. One key to becoming a more versatile blues soloist is learning to combine the minor pentatonic and major pentatonic scales to create guitar.
The blues scale minor pentatonic and the major pentatonic scales on the guitar duration. Start by practicing each fourbar phrase at once, then combine them to play the study as a whole. How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. Playing and improvising acoustic blues doug young acoustic blues workshop notes q 96 our goal is to be able to play a simple, but effective solo blues guitar piece, hopefully with some improvisation. Mixolydian is one easy way to merge major and minor pentatonic and can give your blues guitar licks a real sweetness. Five classic blues guitar riffs, transcribed by pete farrugia ba hons, diplcm, dipmus. Often times when were learning how to play electric blues solos we are totally reliant upon a jam track or a backing band to define the parameters of the song, but the reality is you dont always have a band or a jam track, so in this lesson i show you one way. Blues soloing lesson how to solo with blues scales youtube. Introduction why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. You now combine the scale fingerings and lines from this lesson in a blues guitar solo. Combining the standard riffs in the two positions we know covers a large part of the fretboard in one haul. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf. In these 3 licks i hope it will change how you view the pentatonic scale and most of all. Here are three secrets to help you extend your pentatonic skills and sound more like your blues guitar heroes.
Minor blues tab by blues solo songsterr tabs with rhythm. How to create a complete blues solo from one simple lick this solo gives you an example of how a simple lick or motif can be used as the basis for an entire 12 bar chorus of the blues. One of the most common sticking points with people learning to solo in blues is this concept of switching between the major and the minor blues sounds. Regardless of the guitar wizardry you aim to accomplish, your guitar solo should be lyrical. The fancy guitar solos should be a compliment to this. Minor blues guitar tab by blues solo with free online tab player. Its no secret that the five notes of the pentatonic scale have been used to create some of the most inspiring moments in blues and rock, yet its one of. All of the more notable guitar players have, consciously or subconsciously, reached a high level of musical phrasing to the point where you can often sing their solos. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. Complete with a cd of demonstrations, this method will get you wailing like the best. Blues music is often described as the rock guitarists fast ticket to understanding chord progressions and basic scales thanks to its simple harmonic structure. Home scales major blues scales major blues scale changes the ultimate roadmap in my preliminary lesson on soloing over blues progressions, we looked at simple ways to give good ol minor pentatonic more mileage in your blues guitar solos. Three transcriptions of martin taylors walking bass and chord solos on. You could play these licks over a iivv blues progression where a7 is the i chord, d7 iv chord and e7 v chord.
How to play rhythm and lead at the same time blues guitar. Running up and down a pentatonic scale is an easy way to get started playing blues guitar solos, but you soon realize that theres more to it than that to create the sounds of blues players you listen to. This helps you get a whole lot more expression from your guitar licks and apply them creatively in your blues guitar solos. National guitar workshop, one of americas finest guitar schools, have. The comprehensive study guide fundamental changes in jazz guitar volume 3 alexander, mr joseph on. You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style. Chicken pickin mp3 albert collins style blues guitar lick. Guitar virtuosity for the everyday man pro level guitar. Hoochie coochie man, written by willie dixon, recorded by.
Rock riffs for guitar cherry lane, as well as the textbook the recording. This entry was posted in blog, lesson and tagged advanced, arpeggio, arpeggios, blues, guitar, improvisation, improvising, jazz, jazz blues, jazzguitar, jens larsen, pdf, video lesson, youtube on november 12, 2014 by jens. Guitar virtuosity for the everyday man 2 advanced rhythm 93 lesson 1 stylistic rhythms 94. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and. Depending on what chords are being played, you can play in a different key to produce.
Expand your knowledge beyond the classic pentatonic scales with some cool jazz ideas. Download electric guitar solo tabs in pdf and guitar pro formats. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. The comprehensive study guide fundamental changes in jazz guitar volume 3. The best blues guitarists are able to combine both rhythm guitar riffs with lead guitar into one seemingly burst of fluent guitar playing. Fingerstyle blues guitar lessons learn fingerstyle blues. It only takes a single note to change the minor pentatonic scale into the blues scale. In this lesson, i take you through the mixolydian scale in a blues context. Johnny demonstrates a very helpful bending exercise combining two notesone stationary and one bent. Note for note jazz guitar lesson on miles davis bebop licks. Fingerstyle blues guitar sample lesson heavy time fingerpicking heavy time is a style of blues fingerpicking that is more driving and forceful than the somewhat bouncy feel of alternating bass fingerpicking. Video lesson pdf of the tablature great for solo blues guitar have fun. Watch the video demonstration below to see and hear how it should sound when you are using the concepts of this article in your guitar playing. Over 2 hours of detailed hd video lessons ten killer jam tracks so you can practice and apply what you are learning tablature ebook a pdf ebook of all licks tabbed out for each lesson lick by lick scale reference ebook a pdf reference ebook of scales, lessons, and soloing strategies this course will not only teach you a ton of acoustic blues licks but also.
Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. Combining the pentatonic scale 3 licks with tab pdf youtube. As youll learn in this ebook, there are countless ways to form blues riffs and be creative with them. Guide to phrasing your blues guitar solo uberchord app. Broaden your licktionary with simple jazz techniques that build on what you already know. This book contains 25 new and original minor blues guitar licks. This chord progression is based around the most important chords. There are 5 licks for each of the 5 blues scale shapes shown below.
How to turn a guitar scale into a guitar solo guitar noise. How to play the minor and major blues scales with solo examples. You should be able to use it as inspiration and resource to make your own chord solos but if it was played less dense it will also work well for comping. Recently put new elixir nanoweb light strings on it, and sounds great. Steve stine guitar lesson learn to solo in 5 minutes 6 note soloing. Combining single notes with strums is an important part of. Trillrapidly combining hammerons and pulloffs between two notes. Amazing guitar solos by slash, carlos santana, eric clapton, joe bonamassa and more fantastic guitar players. Combining minor and major pentatonic scales guitarhabits.
The examples well look at are there to spark your creativity in your rhythm guitar playing. So you can play solos without hitting any wrong notes. King got his start in the early 1950s as the beale street blues boy, but rapidly became a national figure with an approach too broad to be pigeonholed by a particular geographic location. Jazz blues chord solo this weeks lesson is a short etude, a chord solo on an f blues. Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. Solo 1 is straight up bb king style swing blues in the key of g. I will walk you through the steps for doing this in just a moment.
A good beginner acoustic guitar is the epiphone hummingbird artist. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. Many highly advanced blues guitarists make use of not one single scale, but combine many different scales to make their sound stand out more.
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