50 Blues Guitar Licks You Must Know Blog!

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Repeated Licks

Need some flashy licks? Here is a bunch of repeated licks , think the end of Freebird, or Clapton, Page, Hendrix, Eddie, Beck ... You get the idea! Repeated lick are a great tool, not only do they build excitment, they give you time to think as to what you might want to play next. Oh and audiences love them!

Am Pentatonic Scales in 4 Note Groupings

Feeling a little stale? Stuck in the same old pentatonic positions? Here is a cool rut buster for you. It is an Am pentatonic scale in 4 note groupings on 2 adjacent strings. Let's take a look.

The notes of Am pentatonic are A C D E G. If we start in example #1 we can see that I start on my lowest available note in Am pentatonic available on the 2nd string which would be a C. I then play the rest of the available notes in that position, D E and G. So I have C D E G. As I move up I have the next group of 4 notes from the scale E G A C and so on as I go through the different positions. What we are really doing here is playing the top 4 notes of each pentatonic position.

These 4 note groupings are very useful for moving around the fingerboard. Take a look at these exercises and then we can get to some licks using the concept.