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2 Beautiful Blues Licks for Beginners and Intermediate

Hi folks, I hope you have a beautiful summer! It’s a great time to play guitar in the backyard, on the beach or on vacation. There’s always a time and place to practice.

Today we’re going to learn two beautiful blues licks in the key of A and in the key of E that are both suitable for beginners and intermediate. You can see blues licks as the words and sentences that make up your story line. By learning blues licks you create the skills and vocabulary for your soloing and improvisation. Let’s learn some blues language!

2 Beautiful Blues Licks for Beginners and Intermediate

We start with a blues lick in the key of A with the first couple of notes from the A minor pentatonic scale position 2 (D-shape) and the last 6 notes from position 1 (E-shape). We also added the major 3rd to give you that overall happy blues sound.

The second blues lick is in the key of E starting with notes derived the E minor pentatonic scale position 4 (A-shape) and then rolls down to position 3 (C-shape), then goes back using the same notes from position 4 (A-shape) and then goes higher up the fretboard to position 5 (G-shape).

2 beautiful blues licks for beginners and intermediate TABS

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Your First Pentatonic Scale

By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

This tutorial has been conceived for beginner guitar players who want to go beyond strumming chords and start playing scales all along the fretboard.

Learning how to play scales is a great way to expand your musicality and exercise your fingers agility; one of the easiest scales to learn at the beginning of your lead guitar adventures is definitely the scale pentatonic.

We’re going to see the pentatonic scale in open position, that means that the shape of the scale uses some open strings. This decreases the complexity of the fingering and makes easier to play great melodies.

What is a Pentatonic Scale
In the word “pentatonic”, “penta” means “five”, in fact a pentatonic scale is composed of 5 notes (in this tutorial we’re not going to investigate the historical origin of this scale, you can find an interesting article on that here)

We already know the major scale. In the key of C, the major scale is:

C D E F G A B

By definition, a major scale pentatonic is like a major scale, without the 4th and 7th degrees. Thus the C major scale pentatonic is composed of the following notes:

C D E G AContinue Reading

6 Great Blues Guitar Tips From The Masters

By Klaus Crow 2 Comments

Today I’d like to share with you 5 videos with great blues guitar tips from the masters themselves. Robben Ford, Matt Schofield, Paul Gilbert, Larry Carlton and Joe Bonamassa will all give you some valuable tools and insights to optimise your blues playing.

The videos are for intermediate and more advanced levels, but even if you’re a beginner you’ll take something out of it.

Enjoy the masters!

ROBBEN FORD – “Blues Phrasing”

MATT SCHOFIELD – Blues Phrasing

PAUL GILBERT – Pentatonic Chicka and Vibrato

MATT SCHOFIELD – Sophisticated Blues

LARRY CARLTON – Melodic Soloing

JOE BONAMASSA – Electric Blues Licks Guitar Lesson

If you want to learn to improvise all over the neck, learn great blues licks, how to make up your own, connect licks together, learn to solo and really master all the blues pentatonic / blues scale shapes inside out, check out
The 50 Cool Blues Licks Improvisation course

The Fundamental Scales to Play over a Minor Key

By Klaus Crow 4 Comments

According to scientific american it seems that over the last few decades popular music has changed it’s course from major to minor keys.

A minor key means the song is in a key or mode based on a minor scale. The song usually has a more darker, melancholic or sad mood.

To be able to improvise over a minor key you need a minor scale. There are a lot different types of minor scales. Today we focus on the most important scales played over a minor key.

The two most used and fundamental scales are the natural minor scale and the minor pentatonic scale.

CHORDS
We can use the chords built from the natural minor scale to play these scales over.
The chord formula for the natural minor scale:
minor – diminished – major – minor – minor – major – major
Often notated as Roman numerals: i – ii – III – iv – v – VI – VII

For example we’re going to play chords in the key of “A” minor.
Apply the notes of the A natural minor scale: A – B – C – D – E – F – G to the chord formula.
You get the following chords: Am – Bdim – C – Dm – Em – F – G

You can use these chords to build any progression. A popular and common chord progression is Am G F G (i – VII – VI – VII) Continue Reading