Posts tagged "Blues."

Lick Of The Week

Another Nameless Blues Lick

I’ve gotta confess, it’s HARD to name guitar licks! I could just go with the lick of the week number, but that seems bland and boring. Or, I could describe what’s under the hood so to speak – today we’re using a the blues scale, a flatted fifth, a one tone bend, etc. But again, […]

Lick Of The Week

Lick of the Week 13: Bluesy Flatted 3rd

Have you ever wanted to capture a real bluesy sound in your licks? Today’s Lick of the Week comes straight out of the pentatonic major scale, with one small twist… We’re using a flatted third as a passing note, going up to the third of the chord, and that little movement adds tons of blues […]

Lick Of The Week

Lick of the Week 2: Pentatonic Repetition

Today’s guitar lick comes straight out of Box 1 of the pentatonic minor scale. Elsewhere, I’ve often called this the root 6 pentatonic minor scale, because the root note for the pattern is on the 6th string.  Here’s the tab:  The secret to this riff is mastering the repetitive picking motion. Down, pull off, up. […]

Lick Of The Week

Lick of the Week 1: A Sweet Minor Third

Soloing

Slow Blues Jam Track in “A”

Sometimes I spend hours just jamming with jam tracks like this one. They’re such a good tool for developing your solo, I don’t know of anything quite as powerful. Having the chords on-screen is also very useful for developing your ability to target individual chords with your riffs on the fly, right in the middle […]

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Climbing with Thirds

In Secrets of Tasty Riffs & Solos, one of the tricks I taught was how to use two strings and climb up or down the fretboard in patterns of thirds. This is a great way to move between scale patterns, it sounds really cool and melodic, and it can quickly get you from one end of […]