In this lesson, Dan from Your Guitar Academy will help you play a slow and easy solo in the style of B.B King mostly using 2 pentatonic shapes. Get ready to play some tasty blues licks. Grab your guitar!

The Boogie Woogie Blues is an example on how you can make your guitar sound like a three man band! Playing the bass line, rhythm guitar and percussion all at once! There are so many useful ideas and techniques featured in this lesson, that you can add you your own 'bag of tricks'! This (Site Has 600+ See Menu) Page Contains Easy Blues Guitar Tabs / Songs / Sheet Music (scores) / Lessons, Riffs And Licks For Beginners Onwards.All images can be saved free and printed by right clicking on any image then selecting save picture as. Lessons - Blues all, Tabs, Pro, Bass Tabs tabs including 12 bar blues in a, exercise of blues e, blues licks in a major, blues licks in a minor and e major, blues licks in e major.

B.B.king is an absolute master of phrasing. In his soloing he is trying tell you a story, and in order to successfully tell a story, you need to know when to say something, and when not to.
This is what we are trying to achieve in this short solo! Start with a short phrase, or lick, then let it breath. Let that sound register and wash over you, before saying something new.
It’s also often called ‘call and response’ and can massively improve your soloing.
We also tackle the vibrato and bending techniques that make the phrases so vocal like.
Enjoy!

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This is where we get into the GOOD stuff, the real bluesy stuff!

I’ve got a blues solo for you to learn, complete with an intro and a turnaround!. This should help you get an idea of what a blues riff should or can sound like. For this one, we’ll be playing in the Key of A, mainly working off of a minor pentatonic scale.

When you’re learning this riff, I’d recommend playing it as is before trying to add in any flourishes, inflections, or vibrato. Once you can play it straight the way through as a tempo you’re comfortable with (no stops!), then you start experimenting with different sounds and effects. In fact, you're encouraged to!

Speaking of tempo, full speed for this is 94 beats per minute, but you can start somewhere around 60 and work your way up from there.

12 Killer Blues Licks Guitar Pro

Once you’re comfortable with all of the above, practice it with a jam buddy! One of you can play the solo while the other plays the 12-bar blues shuffle (coming to you later in the lesson). Then, switch! It’s not nice to hog the spotlight!

There's a PDF of the TAB available free in the downloads tab or try the...

Guitar Pro

If you are working with the Guitar Pro file (free download for registered users - but you do need Guitar Pro software) then you can then easily slow down the track using the speed button in the top right next to the tuning fork icon. If you don't have it you can use this link and promo code JUSTINGUITAR to get 20% off :)

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Free Blues Guitar Licks

And here's the tab for you if you don't need the PDF of GP file !:)

Blues Licks Guitar Pro

Blues Licks Guitar Pro

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