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we all love good licks - here are 50 from Corey Congilio. Good licks from a good player / teacher... love it ... ;-)
50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know
50 modern and progressive blues guitar licks you must know
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About this course
Dig electric blues guitar? Well my friends, I hope that your rent is paid and the fridge is filled for the family because you'll be dropping out of society for a long time shedding these 50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know. This stuff will hit you like Teonanacatl (look it up!); you won't eat, sleep or drink until you've ingested each and every one of these 50 gems. It'll be well worth the "trip" though as you'll return skinny, hairy and downright scary on the fretboard.
Rooted in traditional blues, Progressive Blues steps up the game by borrowing heavily from both rock and jazz to craft a fresh, contemporary and very exciting sound palette punctuated with sophisticated lines, compelling rhythmic variations and advanced harmonic applications.
The Progressive Blues genre has been pioneered and is kept very much alive by a Who's Who list of master guitar players: Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, Jimmy Herring, Roy Buchanan, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Scott Henderson, Robert Cray, Doyle Bramhall II, Audley Freed, Jeff Healey, and Derek Trucks are all synonymous with the style.
No one has studied the Progressive Blues form more deeply or has a better grip on its requisite tool kit than Corey Congilio. Corey dug deep and wide to cherry-pick and compile this perfectly balanced vocabulary of Progressive Blues lines, rhythms, phrasings and artist-inspired lickage.
You'll learn how to apply techniques and melodic devices like hybrid picking, hip hammers and pull-offs, sixths and thirds, chromatics, diminished runs, open-string and intervallic moves, major-minor pentatonic phrases, octaves, double and triple-stops, repetitive phrases, pre-bends, half and full bends, intervallic leaps, muting, scratches, rakes and many more of the essential tricks of the Progressive Blues trade.
50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know has it all and much more; these 50 lessons will majorly round out your Progressive Blues bag and take your blues game to an entirely new level.
Rooted in traditional blues, Progressive Blues steps up the game by borrowing heavily from both rock and jazz to craft a fresh, contemporary and very exciting sound palette punctuated with sophisticated lines, compelling rhythmic variations and advanced harmonic applications.
The Progressive Blues genre has been pioneered and is kept very much alive by a Who's Who list of master guitar players: Robben Ford, Joe Bonamassa, Gary Moore, Jimmy Herring, Roy Buchanan, Steve Morse, Jeff Beck, Warren Haynes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Scott Henderson, Robert Cray, Doyle Bramhall II, Audley Freed, Jeff Healey, and Derek Trucks are all synonymous with the style.
No one has studied the Progressive Blues form more deeply or has a better grip on its requisite tool kit than Corey Congilio. Corey dug deep and wide to cherry-pick and compile this perfectly balanced vocabulary of Progressive Blues lines, rhythms, phrasings and artist-inspired lickage.
You'll learn how to apply techniques and melodic devices like hybrid picking, hip hammers and pull-offs, sixths and thirds, chromatics, diminished runs, open-string and intervallic moves, major-minor pentatonic phrases, octaves, double and triple-stops, repetitive phrases, pre-bends, half and full bends, intervallic leaps, muting, scratches, rakes and many more of the essential tricks of the Progressive Blues trade.
50 Progressive Blues Licks You MUST Know has it all and much more; these 50 lessons will majorly round out your Progressive Blues bag and take your blues game to an entirely new level.
Corey Congilio's Preferred Gear
Below is a list of Corey Congilio's preferred gear including guitars, amps, pedals, accessories, and more. What you see in Corey's lessons may or may not be this actual gear, but if you are trying to capture Corey's sound and tone, the gear listed below is recommended by Corey and it's a great place to start!
Guitars
Amps
Pedals
- J. Rockett Tim Pierce Signature Overdrive Pedal
- DOD Carcosa Analog Fuzz Pedal
- Dunlop DVP4 Volume (X) Mini Pedal
- Universal Audio UAFX Golden Reverberator Pedal
- Universal Audio UAFX Starlight Echo Station Delay Pedal
- Universal Audio UAFX Astra Modulation Machine Pedal
- Korg Pitchblack Custom Pedal Tuner
Accessories & More
What you'll learn
- Apply the lick over I and V chords in a blues progression
- Apply linear phrasing concepts across multiple fretboard positions
- Execute a fast Joe Bonamassa-style fill lick in the high register
- Transpose the lick to different keys and octaves
- Incorporate signature blues-rock phrasing into ballad contexts
Release date: 02/16/2012 • 3h 41m runtime
Sample lessons
Ford and Chevy
Lick #1
Bueno Massa
Lick #2
Palm Some Moore
Lick #3
If I Had a Hammer-on
Lick #4
What's included
53 lessons • 50 charts • 50 Jam Tracks
50 Progressive Blues Licks
Welcome to 50 Progressive Blues Licks You Must Know! You might ask yourself what is "progressive blues?" Well, to me progressive blues is about the players that have taken tried and true blues vocabulary and pushed the envelope to new and exciting places.
In this course we'll focus on guitarists, past and present, who have taken blues guitar playing to multiple levels. We'll cover traditional techniques like bends, and hammer-ons and pulloffs. We're also going to focus on new ways to navigate the pentatonic scale, as well as how to incorporate diminished licks and new rhythmic phrasing into our playing.
I hand picked 50 licks by some of my favorite progressive day blues masters. What's cool is that I've chosen licks that work really well over any style of blues. I've got some great backing tracks for you to jam over too. We'll be playing over all types of grooves so, you'll definitley get a great taste of what these present day ambassadors of the blues have to offer.
It's extremely important to open the history books and study the blues of the past. However, these 50 progressive blues licks will show us that the blues is alive and well in the present and, will continue to evovle in the future!
In this course we'll focus on guitarists, past and present, who have taken blues guitar playing to multiple levels. We'll cover traditional techniques like bends, and hammer-ons and pulloffs. We're also going to focus on new ways to navigate the pentatonic scale, as well as how to incorporate diminished licks and new rhythmic phrasing into our playing.
I hand picked 50 licks by some of my favorite progressive day blues masters. What's cool is that I've chosen licks that work really well over any style of blues. I've got some great backing tracks for you to jam over too. We'll be playing over all types of grooves so, you'll definitley get a great taste of what these present day ambassadors of the blues have to offer.
It's extremely important to open the history books and study the blues of the past. However, these 50 progressive blues licks will show us that the blues is alive and well in the present and, will continue to evovle in the future!
Ford and Chevy
We'll start with a great lick from one of my favorite guitarists, Robben Ford. This lick comes from his version of the tune Chevrolet. The song is in the key of G and the lick is based out of G minor pentatonic. You'll notice that you'll be employing some tried and true techniques like bends, hammer-ons, and pulloffs.
The key to this lick is the cascading manor in which we walk down the scale only to be joined with a great hammer on double stop/chord stab. This lick was the one that really made me start to listen to Robben. Once I learned this lick, I began my journey down the road that Mr. Ford has set forth. Oh, and I'm still on that road, be it a rugged one sometimes! Enjoy.
The key to this lick is the cascading manor in which we walk down the scale only to be joined with a great hammer on double stop/chord stab. This lick was the one that really made me start to listen to Robben. Once I learned this lick, I began my journey down the road that Mr. Ford has set forth. Oh, and I'm still on that road, be it a rugged one sometimes! Enjoy.
Bueno Massa
Joe Bonamassa has been carrying the blues torch since his mid teens. I first heard him in a band called Bloodline and in my opinion, is some of his best work. Bonamassa continues to put out albums that stretch sonic boundries as well as pay homage to the masters. On the album Black Rock, he covers the classic tune Look Over Yonders Wall. He plays it in the key of D and this is a lick that is signature Joe B.
Palm Some Moore
When Gary Moore's "Still Got The Blues" album was released in 1991, blues guitar playing as we knew it changed forever. Moore brought his rapid fire playing and monstrous tone to classic tunes as well as his own blues rock compostitions. A screaming Les Paul and cranked Marshalls emitted classic riffs that we know but, they contained Moore's personality and style.
Check out this lick and be sure to turn up, to eleven if you can!
Check out this lick and be sure to turn up, to eleven if you can!
If I Had a Hammer-on
Jimmy Herring has amassed quite a resume since forming Aquarium Rescue Unit it 1989. Herring is the lead guitarist for Widespread Panic and has played with everyone from The Allman Bros Band to The Dead. His ferocious blues playing combined with his seemingly limitless bebop vocabulary makes him a standout in the current class of todays best guitarists.
This lick was inspired by his tune Scapegoat Blues. Get a handle on this blazing hammer-on/pulloff lick and you'll turn some heads at the next gig!
This lick was inspired by his tune Scapegoat Blues. Get a handle on this blazing hammer-on/pulloff lick and you'll turn some heads at the next gig!
Walk Up Roy
Pushing the envelope of guitar playing is something that all legendary blues players have done. Roy Buchanan unfortunately gets overlooked when we talk about innovative guitarists. Roy definitely left his stamp on the blues as well as guitar playing in general.
For his groundbreaking licks, Buchanan received praise from John Lennon and even received an invitation to join the Rolling Stones. Many of his songs were emotional guitar ballads, others were funky rocky jams. We'll look at a lick he plays in his tune Tribute To Elmore James. This is a bluesy instrumental chock full of great blues playing.
For his groundbreaking licks, Buchanan received praise from John Lennon and even received an invitation to join the Rolling Stones. Many of his songs were emotional guitar ballads, others were funky rocky jams. We'll look at a lick he plays in his tune Tribute To Elmore James. This is a bluesy instrumental chock full of great blues playing.
Morsel
Steve Morse's name may not be the first to come up in the blues discussion. However, we know that rock comes from blues and Morse is one of the best progressive rock players of all time. His mix of rock, blues, country, and classical make him a truly unique player. This lick is in G and really swings. I felt it was one of a few good examples to take from Morse. Have fun with this lick and try using this in a jump blues or uptempo shuffle.
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Reviews
7 results
Connor
09/30/18
Great course for getting out of the box
I'm about half way through this course, and have really enjoyed exploring these harmonic and rhythmic ideas. Most of the licks so far have been surprisingly simple extensions of familiar positions in the minor pentatonic "box", but nonetheless have great complexity and power when played at speed. My favorite course from Corey so far.
Andrea Z.
Verified buyer
11/10/16
Fantastic course that allows you to improve jump from intermediate to late intemidiate. It shows you great licks and licks that will help you in your jam sessions and in your playing. I enjoyed this course a lot.
Antonio B.
Verified buyer
08/15/16
Very cool stuffs! Da man, Corey!
Charles V.
Verified buyer
11/01/15
Love “50 Progressive Blues guitar licks you must know” Corey Congilio explains & gives the you the history of the lick, How to play it, and invites you to experiment with it. He repeats the licks enough times that you don’t necessarily Need to push the replay button, every time, which is well appreciated When trying to get something down.
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