Using Blues Licks Effectively

Intermediate Grade 5 Essential Blues Lead Guitar
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View the full lesson at Using Blues Licks Effectively | JustinGuitar

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Check this supplementary topic for additional guidance and support on learning and using blues licks to play lead improvisation: First Steps in Blues Improvisation using Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1
Cheers :+1:
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Is there a video or audio of this being played? I’m struggling to get my head around the timing. I should add that at 69 yrs im coming late to learning to play!

Thanks,

Michael

I should have said, played against the backing track.

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Most of the licks in your pdf come from this lesson.

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@MGDaY Michael - based on your question, I have turned it into a request, and created an mp3 audio of the example licks used as a solo placed over a 12-bar backing.

And I have created an alternative TAB where the 12-bar is shown as three rows of four without the standard notation above. My software gives a slightly different appearance to that used in Justin’s resource, but it is the same.

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@Richard_close2u

Thanks for the track Richard.
I’m trying to work these first 5 licks into some sort of improvisation but it can get a bit messy linking them with my own ideas, so I’ve started learning this solo to then base my own ideas on.
I’m thinking it would be a good idea to just play along with your track for a while and then try weaving my own bits back in over other backing tracks.

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I found this video of Justin linking the 5 pattern 1 licks very useful. It’s part of some very old lessons and not easy to find on the site:

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That’s from the old Blues Lead 1 & 2 courses before Justin introduced the Grade system and then add the lessons across G 4 5 & 6.

I still have the downloads and if I recall the P1 licks were mapped out as a solo in BL406 “Example Solo 1 - Using Lick Effectively”. I am sure if you dig around where you located this video the PDFs may still be out there. Most my material from those 2 courses have been stored as grainy screen grabs but the later Blues lessons in the latest Intermediate Grades have much of the same content.

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This is the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks.

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Thanks. This really helps.

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Thanks Richard, it is a great help for the lesson.

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In these two bars where are the beats and the ‘ands’? There are a lot of notes to get in!!
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Hi Stuart,

As I can see, these are bars 6 and 7 from this solo. The piece is in common time (4/4), so the downbeats and upbeats are the following:

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Be careful that in bar 7 the 3rd note (on the “and” of beat 2) is elongated with an additional quarter note. Its rhythmic value is equal to that of the 4th note in bar 6.

The triplets are 1/4 (or 2/8) long, so their constituent notes have a duration of 1/12 notes; therefore, the “and” of beat 4 falls between the second and third notes of these triplets.

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Bar 6: 1-a 2-a (rings out over 3), 4-trip-let

8th note
8th note
8th note
Dotted 8th note
4-trip-let

Bar 7:

1 2-a rest 4-trip-let

1/4 note
8th note
8th note
Quarter Rest on 3
4-trip-let

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Much better way to show what I tried to describe in words :+1:

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There are no rests in these 2 bars. The short vertical line in bar 7 is also supposed to be a quarter note. Maybe it’s a formatting issue.

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I don’t hear Richard playing anything then, so assumed it’s a rest.

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Agreed but thanks for your input.

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Thanks for your help.

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