Blues guitar

7 Easy Blues Licks For Beginners

2025-03-26T10:37:56+00:00

When starting off playing pentatonic scales and improvising, it can be hard to break away from sounding like you are just playing an exercise, and start sounding like your guitar heroes. These licks will show you just how we use our favourite scales to make music and sound like a pro in many different musical genres. Lick #1 Our first lick, played in the A Minor Pentatonic Scale (as with the majority of our licks seen here) is a blues rock staple! This lick is a simple run through the Minor Pentatonic Scale, which although is nice and [...]

7 Easy Blues Licks For Beginners2025-03-26T10:37:56+00:00

How To Outline The Changes In a 12 Bar Blues

2023-12-07T21:16:51+00:00

One of the most sacred and definitely more popular chord progressions for guitar players, the 12-bar blues, is a must-know if you’re learning guitar or jamming with some mates. But how can you avoid sounding like you’re using the cliche pentatonic licks over and over again like every other intermediate guitarist? Well, you outline the changes! How to outline the changes in a 12-bar blues: Work in thirds! You may have heard this terminology before somewhere on the internet while on your blues guitar journey, but what exactly do we mean by ‘thirds’? This is referring to the [...]

How To Outline The Changes In a 12 Bar Blues2023-12-07T21:16:51+00:00
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