Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary

Rev Up Your Blues Guitar Licks with this Blues Learning Path Core Course

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Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary

About this course

Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary for late intermediate to advanced students of blues guitar.

This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 11 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, Jeff Scheetz, Matt Brandt, Steve Trovato, Mike Zito, Tom Wolfe, Anthony Stauffer, Andy Aledort and Richard Von Bergen.

The Advanced Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators’ existing TrueFire course libraries.

As your technical skills advance, you’ll be able to call on a more sophisticated vocabulary in your solos and improvisations. The vocabulary in this advanced core course is designed to stimulate you creatively and further advance your skills with challenging right and left-hand techniques. Learn these licks as presented and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own vocabulary.

Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary is organized into 4 sections. In the first section, you’ll work on essential licks. In Section 2 you will dig into the smokin Texas and SRV style. In section 3 you’ll look at concepts like using different scales to build your licks, and then in section 4 you will Step up Your licks to another level.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You’ll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you’ll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you’ll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let’s get started!

What you'll learn

  • Advanced blues lick vocabulary
  • Creative improvisation techniques
  • Advanced blues lick techniques
  • Improve soloing technique
  • Develop ear for musical phrasing
Release date: 09/14/2016 • 3h 53m runtime
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Sample lessons
Charlie's Arps
Charlie's Arps
Lick 23
Roy The Hammer
Roy The Hammer
Lick 7
Rock Me
Rock Me
Lick 18
Turn Around And Sting
Turn Around And Sting
Lick #39

What's included

67 lessons • 60 charts • 53 Jam Tracks

Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary
Welcome to Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary for late intermediate to advanced students of blues guitar.

This Blues Learning Path core course is presented by 11 top TrueFire educators: Robben Ford, Jeff McErlain, Corey Congilio, Jeff Scheetz, Matt Brandt, Steve Trovato, Mike Zito, Tom Wolfe, Anthony Stauffer, Andy Aledort and Richard Von Bergen.

The Advanced Lick Vocabulary curriculum is comprised of select blues guitar lessons from the educators' existing TrueFire course libraries.

As your technical skills advance, you'll be able to call on a more sophisticated vocabulary in your solos and improvisations. The vocabulary in this advanced core course is designed to stimulate you creatively and further advance your skills with challenging right and left-hand techniques. Learn these licks as presented and then use the ideas and technical approaches to craft your own vocabulary.

Play Blues Guitar 9: Advanced Lick Vocabulary is organized into 4 sections. In the first section, you'll work on essential licks. In Section 2 you will dig into the smokin Texas and SRV style. In section 3 you'll look at concepts like using different scales to build your licks, and then in section 4 you will Step up Your licks to another level.

The educators demonstrate all of the key examples over jam tracks (where and when applicable) to simulate a real-world application, in a musical context. All of the key examples are also tabbed and notated for your practice, reference and study purposes.

You'll also get Guitar Pro files so that you can play, loop or slow down the tab and notation as you work through the lessons. Plus, you'll have all of the available jam tracks to work with on your own.

Take as much time as you need to work through each video guitar lesson before moving on to the next lesson. If you want to dig deeper or wider into any of the topics covered in this core course, check out the recommended supplementary courses in your learning path where you'll find more examples, techniques and insight from top TrueFire educators.

Grab your guitar and let's get started!
Essential Licks
In this section you'll learn essential licks from players like B.B. King, Freddie King and Robben Ford. It is important to get a wide variety of licks down to make sure your technique can handle anything in a soloing situation.

TIP! More advanced licks usually have one of two things, if not both that make them more difficult. Speed and number of notes, and harmonic structure.

I find that working on licks helps me isolate these things. If there is a particularly fast section to a lick, break it down into smaller parts and work on those. Make sure that your picking is correct and efficient, make sure your fretting hand fingers stay close to the fingerboard. These little details are usually what make or break a lick.

If the sound of the lick is new or different to your ear, try isolating the notes that are making it sound that way. Then just play those notes over the chord that is being played and listen to what is happening in there. Sometimes if you can just get the "sound" of the lick to sit properly in your ear, it makes the mechanics of actually playing it much easier.
Eric's Turn
Eric's Turn - Lick 2 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff McErlain and is sourced from 50 Blues Guitar Licks You MUST Know.

It may be one of the most overplayed songs on classic rock radio but I highly suggest you give Cream's take on Robert Johnson's "Crossroads" a closer listen, again! It is an encyclopedia of Brit blues/rock vocabulary not to mention Clapton at his fiery best. This was one of the first licks I ever learned that nails the V chord in bar 12. A must know.
Chicago Flurry
Chicago Flurry - Lick 13 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff McErlain and is sourced from 50 Blues Guitar Licks You MUST Know.

One of the many things I love about the blues is how different the Delta stuff sounds from the Chicago. As a player it is important to get familiar with as many of the locals as you can so you can draw on them when needed. Personally I am a sucker for Delta blues. Some others: African blues, Atlanta blues · British blues · Canadian blues · Chicago blues · Detroit blues · East Coast blues · Kansas City blues · Louisiana blues · Memphis blues · New Orleans blues · Piedmont blues · St. Louis blues · Swamp blues · Texas blues · West Coast blues, and many more. Awesome isn't it?
Love the Overtones
Love the Overtones - Lick 30 is a video guitar lesson presented by Jeff McErlain and is sourced from 50 Blues Guitar Licks You MUST Know.

The term overtone generally refers to a specific set of frequency components that appear above a musical tone. Got that? A note without overtones sounds like a beep you hear in a hearing test or a test pattern on a TV. Not very pleasant. All acoustic instruments produce overtones. On guitar they are especially noticeable when you play two or more notes at a time, add in some gain and they really go crazy. That's what makes this lick so nasty sounding.
Combi Extended Standard
Combi Extended Standard - Lick 3 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Jump Blues Licks You MUST Know.

In jump blues you combine the best of both worlds; the roughness of the blues scale and the mellow notes of the mixolydian scale. When the chords change in the backing track you'll need to move to the corresponding mixolydian scale. You have to move with the chords. Lick #3 makes it easier to find notes to target on each individual dominant seventh chord in the backing track.
Charlie's Arps
Charlie's Arps - Lick 23 is a video guitar lesson presented by Matthieu Brandt and is sourced from 50 Jump Blues Licks You MUST Know.

Charlie Christian was one of the founding fathers of swing guitar. In this lick we'll zoom in on one of his deceptively simple soloing approaches, use the chord shapes on the fret board as the structure for your licks and play the notes arpeggio-style. Even if the chord in the backing track is a simple triad, you can target chord tones of extended dominant seventh chords.

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Reviews

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wholmer

12/23/20

Great Licks to Choose From

Not really for the beginner. Some of these are quite a challenge. Then I just took them and made them my own and it made a world of a difference. By adding these licks my vocabulary has grown to where I can add more complex ideas to my playing. That's the next step after getting all these licks under your belt.

vprice

Verified buyer

07/17/20

Lots of good material

Lots of licks in many styles to add to your toolbox.

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