Im using this lick as a part of the classic blues shuffle pattern in e, but. Here is a little piece that is like alot of slide blues. From muddy waters to robert johnson and derek trucks, this slide guitar lick is a must know if you want to. This technique is very important for developing a full sound and the right. Because of this, you need to make sure youre prepared with enough riffs and chords to be creative and interactive with your. This page includes notationtabs and scale diagrams for each position. Now strike the open string and vary the force of your attack. Mastery of finger picking techniques will also help you to move on to study other delta blues artists that will follow in lessons to come in the future. This piece is centered around the open position of the e blues scale.
All the chord shapes, licks and riffs are played exactly the same way in both tunings, they just sound a little higher in open e and a. If you want your mind blown, watch eric clapton discuss then play this robert johnson song. This is a slightly longer lines using double stops. If you tune to open d and put a capo on the second fret you get open e. 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. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. Im going to break this down into a very easy method for soloing right now its called, play any note in the blues scale but end the measure on the root note of the backing track chord. Learn to play the guitar with these fingerstyle blues songs.
Before we dive in, lets take a look at three blues scale patterns that form the basis of our 12 licks. Licks built around the open e chord 8 licks guitar. Blues in d introduction to open tuning open d blues in g bottleneckslide guitar blues in c minor blues. A s guitarists we love to solo over the blues, its exciting, creative, and theres something about digging into a blues solo that just feels right. Or you can play them in sequence over a standard 12bar blues to create one very hip solo, as well do for the very last step of this lesson. This one features a different movement for the picking hand. For the premier instalment of solo blues we are going to look at a 12 bar blues in the key of e. Acoustic blues guitar lesson open positon e run and licks.
Below i have created several licks and phrases constructed around the open e chord and its scale pattern. For open e blues, i wanted to create a personal ode to eric claptons guitar playing. Well take a look at 3 licks from derek trucks first solo on the classic statesboro blues from the allman bros album, one way out. Well learn how to extend the blues and pentatonic scales out past the open position to cover some of the other licks in down to the station.
This exercise once again uses of bends, slides and open strings. Slide guitar licks with derek trucks fundamental changes. The 12bar means that the song or jam is divided into 12 parts or measures. In this free guitar lesson, im going to show you how to play slide guitar licks in open e tuning. In open e tuning, major chords may be sounded by strumming across all of the strings at any given fret. Another easy acoustic blues lick in e blues guitar. Here are 12 easy slide licks for open g tuning for you. For a complete lesson on the minor blues scale, read this lesson. Traditional blues rhythm guitar chords and riffs tabs. The most common open tunings for slide guitar playing are open e, d, g and a. The guitar riff makes use of slides, pulloffs, and a slight bends called smears. 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.
For the pentatonic scales both major and minor there are only 5 different patterns. While this blues guitar arrangement is mostly a riff and some bass notes, below are a few of the chord shapes that are used. Practising this cell in isolation will make the lick easier to execute. This should sound familiar to anyone whos ever listened to the blues. If you already know about the minor blues scale and would just like to know how to play it in five positions as well as the open position of e, read on. But, the reality is that we spend most of our time playing rhythm guitar when jamming with fellow blues musicians. Like blues licks, country licks use minor and major pentatonic sounds with mixolydian shadings, like the classic openposition runs in figures 5ab, occurring in the key of g. 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. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar.
On the guitar, we can play the same scale in a great variety of fretboard positions. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3. Remember that open d tuning or any tuning for that matter is not just limited to playing blues with a slide. Many of these can be easily adjusted to play in standard tuning.
Easy soloing guide layout 1 free online guitar lessons. The 3 blues licks are free and for you to use in your own improvisation. Most of these are jimipowered but a few tip their hat to johnny winter as well. This lick gets its name from the fact that most of the lick is played with open strings and one fretted note on the third fret of the 2nd string. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. In this tutorial were going to study one of the most fun scales.
The e blues scale is made up of the same notes as the e minor pentatonic with the addition of the flat 5th in this case the bb note. Exploring slide guitar in open e tuning guitar world. Beginning finger picking for the delta blues guitar. Copy them, rip them apart, turn them around and make them your own. E minor pentatonic scale in open position andy guitar. Play a backing track we will use a 12 bar blues in e for this lesson see below. Open e tuning slide exercise july 8, 2019 march 14, 2018 in free slide guitar lessons in this lesson i want to show you an exercise that will help you with your open e slide playing and will also train you to play to the chord when playing a 12 bar blues. This blues guitar lick in e works great over a triplet feel, or in this case i have notated it in 128 time. You can drop any of these into a bluesbased progression and come out smiling.
Adjust the start fret option to further highlight a finger pattern for playing the selected scale in a different position on the fretboard. The eminor pentatonic scale in the open position position 1. The two most popular open tunings in blues are open g and open d. Other common blues progressions include the 8 bar, 16bar, and 24bar blues. However, a scale simply gives you all the good notes that work well one after the other in ascending and descending order going up and back down its like learning the abc of music so we can learn to make the guitar talk as a scale alone is pretty useless no ones gonna pay to hear scales.
Here i will demonstrate a few licks in open d tuning. What you have to do here is to learn that the major pentatonic is a totally. There are many new possibilities here, especially in the harmonic sense. If you are just starting out in blues you should definitely check out this video. We are in the key of a for this straightforward blues lick. In fact you will hear this lick in all types of old blues as well. That word scale can be very scary for some people it was for me too. Blues guitar overview introduction 12 bar blues in e major 12 bar blues in amajor e major revisited some other blues progressions some fingerpicking challenges more examples in e and a some theory.
Its a great scale to start with on guitar, we can use open strings and that makes the scale easy to learn. Master these 50 slow blues you must know and you can. Blues lick in e guitar tablature this blues guitar lick in e works great over a triplet feel, or in this case i have notated it in 128 time. Ever since then, clapton has been biasing towards his martin acoustics and fingerstyle blues guitar. Exercise 5 for this exercise we use a combination of patterns 2 and 4. Then you just keep repeating that same 12bar pattern over and over for the length of the song. 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. Leigh fuge of mgr music works through 10 easy blues guitar licks for beginners that can be quickly worked into a practice routine. Using the open string friendly key of e, this descending figure creeps back up to the v chord b ready for the first verse. The eminor pentatonic scale in the open position or position 1.
The final group of licks are all derived from one of the greatest slow blues of all time jimi hendrixs red house. Often these blues progressions will contain dominant chords such as 7th chords. Country licks in country music, there are tons of cliched licks worthy of assimilating into your improv arsenalphrases appropriate for either acoustic or electric guitar. The e minor blues scale contains the following notes. Pentatonic licks are a key characteristic of authenticsounding blues. Jguitars scale calculator will draw scale diagrams showing the fretboard with notes in the selected scale highlighted.
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