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Killer Blues Bending Trick | Guitar Lick of the Week | From Chicago Music Exchange
🕑 Added 2017-08-15 03:50:32 +0000 UTC Hello friends,And welcome to another lead guitar tutorial. In today's session, I'll be showing you a useful example of how you can implement a "super-bend" into your pentatonic licks. Let's get started!
Section #1 - The Am Pentatonic Scale
Our lick of the week is drawn primarily from the "E shape position" of our Am pentatonic scale; however, our super-bend is situated in the D position, commonly referred to as the upper-extension. Let's memorize both ways of playing this very common scale.
Section #2 - The Lick of the Week
Our lick of the week makes use of many popular lead techniques; notice how ascend up the scale starting on the 5th interval (E), before hitting a "super-bend" on the same note an octave up. From there we will perform a glissando or slide, and descend back down the scale, stacking our notes until resolving back on the root note, A.
Section #3 - Chords this lick can be played over
In the associated video, I performed a 1.4.5 blues progression using dominant 7th, and 9th chords. These are professional sounding chord shapes that every blues, jazz and funk player should learn and master.
Try jamming over this funky, blues backing track!
Comments
Thanks Dan, there is so much stuff I want to teach and such little time, so I think I'll be producing more of these micro-lessons, I like that phrase by the way.
You know, I really wanted to snag it, but right now I'm investing in the studio, microphones, and a laptop so that I can create more and better content. The guitar was mindblowingly nice, but not nessesary at the present time. Maybe someday!
Rob, enjoy yourself! You deserve it. You have brought a great deal of joy to me and I'm sure to thousands of your patrons. Keep up the great work. Instead of checking my email daily I'm checking your posts first. That should tell you something.
The important question is: did you leave with the guitar?
Rob I think it's great .It defanitely is an amazing addition to the tool box.
Great micro lesson! Thanks so much, Rob.
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