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A Nice Basic Blues Guitar Lick – Key of A

Today I’ll teach you a nice basic blues guitar lick in the key of A. You can play this lick over a blues chord progression or a blues shuffle in the key of A.

The blues lick is made up notes from the pentatonic scale with an added major 3rd note.

Blues licks are a great way to build, expand and spice up your solo vocabulary. If you’re wondering why would need to learn licks check out 6 Vital Reasons Why and How You Should Learn Guitar Licks.

Now let’s learn get rolling!

Below are the TABS and the video lesson where I explain the entire lick slowly and clearly.

Enjoy!

Basic blues guitar licks - key of A - Tablature

5 Cool Blues Shuffle Riffs

By Klaus Crow 10 Comments

Playing “walking blues lines” is a common thing for bass players, but also guitar players do not shy away from a nice walking blues shuffle riff.

The blues shuffle riff is a popular sound and often used by guitar players like T-Bone Walker (Going to Chicago, T-bone Shuffle) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (Cold shot, Pride and joy, Travis walk).

While blues rhythm guitar suffices with a standard 12 bar blues shuffle, a cool shuffle riff is often more fun to play and interesting listen to.

Also for the blues lead guitar player it’s great to solo over a blues shuffle riff. The combination of a cool lead solo improvisation and a nice blues shuffle riff will lift the music to greater heights.

Today we have 5 Cool blues shuffle riffs to get your hands dirty. Starting out with a nice & easy shuffle riff gradually leading up to more challenging riffs. A video lesson and tablature is provided for each shuffle riff.

Enjoy!

Cool Blues Shuffle Riff 1

3 Cool Blues Guitar Licks for Soloing (50CBLI)

By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

Today I’ll show you 3 cool blues licks from the 50CoolBluesLicksImprovisation Course. (See below this post for more info).

Blues licks are an essential part of learning to solo and improvise on your guitar. They are small parts/fragments of an entire solo. You can see them as the beautiful words that spice up your story line, bringing drama, elegance, juice, soul, and excitement to your soloing. You can incorporate licks into your solos, copy them, learn from them, rip them apart, and rebuild them to create your own.

Building a vocabulary of licks expands your musical ideas and insight, and gives you greater flexibility in your soloing and improvisation.

Know that blues licks are not just for blues music. They are used widely in rock, country, jazz, pop and many other styles of music. They are beneficial to your playing in every way.

So let’s get started.

Enjoy!

If you want to learn more cool blues licks, how to create your own, connect licks together, learn to solo and improvise all over the neck, and dive into the scale shapes, tricks and tools to really master the Pentatonic / Blues Scale inside out, check out:

The 50CoolBluesLicksImprovisation Course

Get Your Soloing and Improvisation Skills to the Next Step!

6 Vital Reasons Why and How You Should Learn Guitar Licks

By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

A guitar lick is a phrase (a short musical idea) made up of a series of notes that you can use and incorporate into your soloing and improvisation. You can also see it as a small part or fragment of an entire solo. Good licks can add magic, excitement and drama to your solos.

Learning, memorizing, dissecting, rebuilding and incorporating licks into your playing is such a great investment in your guitar learning process. It will enhance, expand and upgrade your soloing in many ways.

The variety of licks is infinite. They come in all shapes & sizes, styles, moods, tempos, timings, keys and levels of playing, so it’s important that you learn why and how to use them.

Let’s start to take a look at the 8 vital reasons to learn guitar licks: Continue Reading

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