For this riff, well make an a power chord by placing your index finger on the second fret of the d string, and play the fifth and fourth strings twice using two swing eighth notes. Guitar virtuosity for the everyday man 2 advanced rhythm 93 lesson 1 stylistic rhythms 94. Traditional blues rhythm guitar chords and riffs tabs. But this book can also be used on its own as a stand alone reference guide to scale diagrams, lead guitar soloing strategies, learning to play over chord changes, and more. To finish off my top 5 blues guitar riffs, here is the classic tbone intro to stormy monday. High graphic resolution enables printing of best quality large format printouts. This riff demonstrates some beautiful slow blues chords with an augmented triad this tbone lick is played at the turnaround of a blues progression, and can be used as either an intro or at the end of any verse during a 12 bar blues.
To add even more style to this riff, we can use muting. Term used to describe a short musical idea on guitar, can be melodic or harmonic. Top 5 blues guitar riffs jamie holroyd guitar jamie. Download blues guitar tabs in pdf and guitar pro formats. Blues is a language and learning to communicate and its very easy to learn the basics and get talking right away. King got his start in the early 1950s as the beale street blues boy, but rapidly became a national figure with an approach too broad to be pigeonholed by a particular geographic location. I have also included the 5 box patterns you need to learn in order to memorize the blues scales in all. Blues guitar minor blues lesson 1, part 1 olav torvunds guitar pages guitar lessons book of the month january 2005 happy traum. Blues music is a shared language that can be learned if approached the right way. Leigh fuge of mgr music digs into 10 interesting and helpful lead blues guitar licks, ideal for beginners or novice blues guitar players looking for an injection of practice ideas.
Acoustic blues songs, blues guitar covers, electric blues guitar solos by eric clapton, stevie ray vaughan, gary moore, joe bonamassa, john mayer, keith richards, billy gibbons and other amazing blues guitar players. I started this series because i great way to learn new blues vocabulary is to learn a new blues lick every week and work it into your playing. Otis rush go here for books and videos on blues guitar go here for. This is particularly true of blues, a style loosely based upon musical cliches that have survived generations. That part will require you to have some flexibility. You can play this new riff throughout the entire 12bar blues progression and youll find it makes your rhythm guitar sound a lot more interesting. Here is the blues in c chord progression i am using in the video, and what is used in the jam track below. Great blues riffs for guitar pdf free download epdf. Each free guitar riff lesson has guitar tabs to show you exactly what strings to play. Logical lead guitar free guitar course online guitar. Keeping your index finger in place, come down with your third finger on the fourth. Make sure to use the backing tracks and learn to play blues guitar like bb king.
Il contient les chapitres licks et riffs pour guitare. Solo acoustic 12 bar blues in e with lead licks andy guitar. In any form of music, some melodic ideas sound more at a home than others. The form of blues riff in b is the classic 12bar blues, but its played the rock n roll way, which is in a straighteighth feel not a shuffle or swing. Now that you have the two parts worked out separately you bring them together for a call and response type rhythm part you play the riff in odd bars 57911, and the chords in even bars 24681012. While this blues guitar arrangement is mostly a riff and some bass notes, below are a few of the chord shapes that are used as well. As youll learn in this ebook, there are countless ways to form blues riffs and be creative with them. Here is a blues in c jam track that you can use to put your new eric clapton lick into practice. King style lead thats played with just 6 notes 4 fretted notes and 2 bends. This is just a small sample of material from my new guitar course. A riff or phrase is nothing more than a musical sentence.
Jeffs courses and ipad apps are best sellers, including his extremely popular 50 licks series on truefire. Blues guitar 101 classic licks sample jazz guitar online. John lee hooker and elmore james often vamped on one chord or riff, beginning and ending a song in much the same way. This printable method is available as a pdf file containing 40 easy dominant jazz blues guitar lines with tabs, standard notation, analysis, audio files and scale.
Learn to play blues guitar by practicing the greatest free blues guitar riffs of all time. In the video guitar lesson you can see me demonstrate how to play this over the whole blues progression in c. This pdf contains the scale charts for the blues scale in all keys for guitar in standard tuning. How to connect the pentatonic scale across the entire fretboard and use it in your solos duration. In the guitar tablature below, youll notice some nice syncopations in the oddnumbered bars and in bar 10. Below is a pdf with the tablature and chords for this guitar lesson. Five classic blues guitar riffs, transcribed by pete farrugia ba hons, diplcm, dipmus.
That means you will have 3 triplets evenly spaced counts occur on every beat. Im assuming a little bit of basic knowledge and ability on the guitar. Jeff is a pioneer of online guitar education through both his customized personal lessons and his online guitar classroom, the juke joint. This free blues guitar riff is the thrill is gone by bb king.
Licks are memorable musical phrases that can be strung together to create a solo, fill in behind a vocal phrase or simply spruce up the end of a tune. This blues guitar riff uses the b minor pentatonic scale. Riff ninja brings you bangin, badtothebone blues that you will be able to play, even if you are a beginner, because he gives you both the tab for the riff and. Blues guitar riffs, bb king free blues guitar riffs. This chord progression is based around the most important chords. Figure 6 is the classic i chord lick, popularized by b.
Clicking on the graphics will start playback of the integrated. Garage band garageband is multitrack recording software allowing you to record your guitar playing to. How to play blues rhythm guitar like the blues masters. These are the basis for the riff concept in blues playing. 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. As in many blues songs the rhythm is an eightnote triplet pattern. It contains pentatonic and modal licks as well as famous riffs by other musicians. Jeff was also the guitar teacher and musical consultant on the feature film, august rush. Many great solos were played with just 1 simple or easy guitar lick which varies throughout for the solo.
Here is the intro to the song and is one of the most famous blues guitar riffs out there. Introduction why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. In this weeks guitar lesson, youll learn about phrasing by learning a simple b. His fluid, elegant blues riffs, soulful string bends, and slurred chord style exerted a strong influence on virtually every subsequent player. So i picked my personal favourite 7 blues masters and did 8 licks from each so over a years worth of material for a lick a week. Logical lead guitar 25 riffs you must know 5 bonus section. Guitar lovers licksriffs is a digital book with sound in pdf format for printing purposes.
After you learn your basic 12bar chord progressions, your next task is turning your pentatonic scales into musical phrases or riffs think of this as a kid going from just saying the alphabet over and over to actually turning it into words and sentences. Hoochie coochie man, written by willie dixon, recorded by. The examples well look at are there to spark your creativity in your rhythm guitar playing. The 12bar blues progression switches to the 4 chord for two measures next. This first module in blues lead guitar called essential blues lead guitar will take you through the techniques. Also dont forget to check out the free blues guitar. The blues shuffle riff is a popular sound and often used by guitar players like tbone walker going to chicago, tbone shuffle and stevie ray vaughan cold shot, pride and joy, travis walk. If you are just starting out in blues you should definitely check out this video. The sound on these licks calls for a hollowbody archtop electric and again was achieved with a.
Licks shock the world with rock bonus pentatonic scale pdf free. A good place to start when learning various blues riffs is by relating them to chord forms and shapes on the guitar. Any listing of the great blues guitar licks would have to include its fair share of b. Lesson 3 the metronome practice chords, scales and licks 101. In this guitar lesson we are going to put together everything youve learned throughout the blues guitar quickstart series to interject some blues licks into the intermediate 12bar blues riff that you learned back in lesson five. Copy them, rip them apart, turn them around and make them your own. The 3 blues licks are free and for you to use in your own improvisation. You dont have to play this riff in the e minor pentatonic position, you can move it around the fret board as the chords change in a 12 bar blues. Their licks remain as the common language of the blues guitar solo style. Blues riffs is usually repeating patterns, played on the lowest strings on the guitar. The pentatonic scale is the most often used scale for soloing and improvising in blues and rock. It has all the essentials you need and packed with cool features. Learn to play the guitar with these fingerstyle blues songs.
You can get more charts in with custom tunings using my interactive scale generator here. In this tutorial series we are going to learning how to play a 12 bar blues in e. They are often based on powerchords, and some of them are more melodic, using the bluesscale, which we will take a look at later in the part about improvisation. Guitar lovers licksriffs pdf with integrated sound and.
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