Blues scale licks guitar study jamie holroyd guitar. Copy them, rip them apart, turn them around and make them your own. A wonderful example of his jazz blues style playing is a famous recording from his 1968 album giblet gravy entitled billies bounce a. Because they are so short, these licks are easy to pepper into your rhythm without loosing the grove. Mixolydian is one easy way to merge major and minor pentatonic and can give your blues guitar licks a real sweetness. For each of the licks i have also added some exercises to get familiar with the new structure and talk a little about how to use them in jazz licks. Blues in e is one of the most common keys to play in, so you can never have enough e blues licks. Itll give your blues licks a jazzier, richer melodic voice around dominant 7th chords. You can use it in combination with the more signature sounds of the pentatonic scales, and youll see how the extra notes included in mixolydian offer great options for newer, fresher licks.
How to make mixolydian mode licks 5 new useful ideas. But if you want to take it a little further and jazz it up with some nice fresh sounding notes to expand your improvisation possibilities then the mixolydian scale. The tradition of guitar improvisation started with the blues and many of read the rest. By working jazz guitar licks, you increase your fretboard knowledge and build a strong connection to the jazz tradition at the same time. Blues progressions the following blues progressions are covered in this lesson. A combination of the mixolydian mode and the blues scale, the mixolydian blues hybrid scale reigns supreme as the chief source for carving those majorminor blues based licks that sound so good over dominant 7th chords. Its always good to have plenty of blues guitar licks in the key of e in your arsenal. While you may know that its important to practice jazz guitar licks, finding the right lines to work on can be a daunting task. This is a 3 page worksheet of my favourite blues licks. The lick below is written in both standard music notation and guitar tablature. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes. In this lesson, you will learn 12 rock guitar licks in detail, as well as the rhythm guitar part used for the backing track.
By studying and working with the licks in this ebook, you will not only learn how to improvise over different chord types and progressions, but be able to construct your. Pdf download features a wide variety of licks for all skill levels familiarity with the pentatonic scales is. E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. The lick ends by skipping up to the root and then down to the b7. To really get into the essence of george bensons playing style, listen to as much of his playing as possible. To play the blues is a fascinating undertaking because it can be both simplistic and yet intangibly tricky to master. In this lesson i am going to look at 5 licks that do that and talk a bit about how they are constructed and how you can make lines like that. Scale, chord, mode and all that the examples in this lesson are all on a d7 chord, so i am using d mixolydian which is of course the same as g major, since d7 is the dominant of g. You can make some really great lines by mixing things from blues and jazz. So lets take a look at the guitar lick, and then break down what makes it tick. Few guitarists, if any, have been as influential as eric clapton.
Make sure you click on each sound file to hear the lick played. Lesson 8 the e minor blues scales dvd 3 in this lesson. Muddy waters and howlin wolf developed the early versions of chicago blues by amplifying their rootsy delta licks in a combo setting with tunes little red rooster, and spoonful. Resolving to the root a of the i chord allows us the opportunity to follow with a lick that can chart an entirely new course, which is exactly what we see. The idea is to use it in combination with the more staple pentatonic scales. Blues guitar overview introduction 12 bar blues in emajor 12 bar blues in amajor emajor revisited. Jazz is an ever evolving language, the established patterns and licks are borrowed, adapted and mutated into new ones. Itll give your blues licks a jazzier, richer melodic voice around those dominant 7th chords. Even though you can switch the licks around i have grouped them in the dorian and lydian examples. Licks are short musical phrases used in jazz, blues and rock improvising. This is actually coming from the backing that i use on the video, so on the first two i have an am vamp, and on the last two there is. Students should, of course, study the solos of great jazz players to derive even more source material. Tbone walker showcased similar hot licks in his description blues and alimony blues.
Mixolydian is a great scale to experiment with in a major blues context. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and. 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. The mixolydian blues scalethe most useful scale of all. Some players have a memorised collection or repertoire of favourite licks that they will throw into a solo every now and then.
If we would play over a minor bluesprogression with for instance the chords am7, dm7 and em7 we cant use the major pentatonic scale. Blues licks for classroom guitar consonus music institute. Knowing the mixolydian scale pattern is a good start but you also need to build a vocabulary or library of cool sounding mixolydian licks and ideas to help you learn how to use it in your guitar solos and improvisations. Riffs, on the other hand, are usually licks or phrases that are repeated as part of a tune or improvised backings. Turnaround chord sequence, and a turnaround lick in blues guitar lesson 9. This does have a couple of guitar slides and pull offs to help create a smoother sound. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3. Mixolydian is a great scale to use in a major blues context. Advanced guitarists dont use one single scale to play blues solos, but use a combination of many different scales, which makes their sound more advanced and highly personal. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. In this lesson, i take you through the mixolydian scale in a blues context. This collection of written riffs and recorded tracks is actually a stimulating method that, given just a few minutes of attention each day, really expands prowess on the fretboard.
This text deals with many technique issues jazz musicians encounter in the real world. Each riff will be played for you at a fast speed, then a slower speed and then in most cases, at an intermediate speed. So why do you want to use the mixolydian scale for blues. Blues scales blues is an irresistible tonality for a guitar player. If you are just starting out in blues you should definitely check out this video. Lesson 9 extending the blues and pentatonic scales dvd 3 in this lesson.
And all those famous blues, rock, metal guitar players had one thing in common. Start by watching the video below, and then see further down for all the supplemental content you need. Once you memorize the licks you are encouraged to experiment with them. Copying the solos of professionals is a great way for young players to. In this lesson we will look at 5 licks in the style of george benson.
The 3 blues licks are free and for you to use in your own improvisation. The final part of the lick is a chromatic phrase connecting the 3rd and the 5th. In a 12 bar blues, we always play the iv chord on the 5th bar, so thats where you can throw in this type of lick. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. You should experiment with changing the ending of the lick.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. With its 200 licks and phrases, conceived by the most famous guitarists, this coursebook is a veritable bluescyclopedia imperative for everyone working on blues. The e minor pentatonic scale the e minor blues scale. Here is a useful blues lick that sounds great over the iv chord. 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. I call em micro licks because theyre super quick and insanely simple. Mixolydian mode guitar licks in this awesome guitar lesson youll learn 3 supercool guitar licks from the mixolydian mode to use in your guitar soloing. This article contains 5 blues scale licks to help expand your jazz guitar vocabulary and soloing skills the blues scale licks are presented in a 12 bar blues etude in conjunction with chords. Waggoner these sheets may be used as source material for students working on solos over blues progressions in f.
It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Learning jazz guitar licks is essential for anyone studying the genre. The e minor pentatonic scale how to play blues guitar. Often new players are drawn to the instrument because of a desire to play the blues. The iivv 145 the 8 bar blues the 12 bar blues a variation of the 12 bar blues roman numerals are used to show which chord or key changes are used in a progression.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading 25 mixolydian licks for blues guitar. As its name implies, the mixolydian blues hybrid scale is created by superimposing the blues scale 1b34b55b7 over the. The mighty mixolydian scale over a blues guitarhabits. These easy acoustic blues licks, micro licks, that ill be sharing with you are anything but boring. Hello, i used to have an account here last year, but ill be darned if i can remember what it was i seem to remember back then somebody posted a link to a cool free pdf full of blues licks. Mixolydian mode licks mixolydian licks for blues, rock. Well, not that theres anything wrong with the pentatonic scale, on the contrary, the pentatonic blues scale is the most essential scale for blues music. The mixolydian scale or mixolydian mode is used extensively in blues, rock, jazz, funk and pop music. The formula for this etude is always one bar of a shell voicing using the charleston rhythm followed by one bar of single line playing using the blues scale this type of call and response playing. These may repeat exactly over and over if they fit any chord. The first roman numeral i is the root or key that the progression is in.
It may be fair to say that most players rely on scales and patterns aka licks, phrase or in more academic circles, formulae. How many jazz improvisers construct a completely original solo. Pentatonic blues licks pattern 3, pattern 4, pattern 5, pattern 1, pattern 2, modal licks aeolian, locrian, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian licks are short musical phrases which form useful elements for improvising guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop. All of the licks are written in the key of e minor, so that you can easily master them in this popular key. The blues is of particular interest to guitar players as as it originated on the instrument. The licks presented here are classified according to genre ternary or binary licks, 128 licks, intros, turnarounds, riffs etc. You have found the right book if you are looking to expand your jazz guitar vocabulary and emulate your favorite jazz guitar players. So lets look at how you can become more creative with different scales and licks to radically improve your overall blues guitar soloing. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. Once youve mastered the licks in the written key try transposing them to all the other keys.
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