When it comes to playing lead guitar and taking solos, here are some common struggles that so many students run into:
-How to I find the combinations that sound good within the scale patterns
-How do I make my solos not sound like scales
-Being more melodic and less βpentatonic scaleβ sounding.
Scales are important to know as a primer for understanding some theory, and how things work, but once you get the basic boxes down, of which there are typically 5, then you need what I call vocabulary in those boxes. This is where you start making music with those notes, instead of just running the patterns up and down.
Getting some vocabulary together would help solve all three of those above questions.
Here's the thing though the first time I tried to do this it didn't sound that great. I found out that I just wasn't going to play an amazing lick or solo on my own. First I needed to steal some ideas from the greats.
If you do this you will get there faster. What you want to do is learn some licks and melodies from famous recordings.
So that is what I am going to show you in this video we'll dive into 3 EPIC blues licks that are all right out of the pentatonic/blues scale in the key of E.
These licks are note-for-note from the beginning of Howlin' Wolf's "Back Door Man."
If you haven't heard this recording check it out on YouTube it has over 11 million views! Wolf starts off the song doing a little rant about the blues, and then he says, "I'ma show you how to play the blues, now you just sit here and watch me" then he plays these 3 licks that give me the chills every time!
Click the link below to watch:
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When it comes to playing lead guitar and taking solos, here are some common struggles that so many students run into:
-How to I find the combinations that sound good within the scale patterns
-How do I make my solos not sound like scales
-Being more melodic and less βpentatonic scaleβ sounding.
Scales are important to know as a primer for understanding some theory, and how things work, but once you get the basic boxes down, of which there are typically 5, then you need what I call vocabulary in those boxes. This is where you start making music with those notes, instead of just running the patterns up and down.
Getting some vocabulary together would help solve all three of those above questions.
Here's the thing though the first time I tried to do this it didn't sound that great. I found out that I just wasn't going to play an amazing lick or solo on my own. First I needed to steal some ideas from the greats.
If you do this you will get there faster. What you want to do is learn some licks and melodies from famous recordings.
So that is what I am going to show you in this video we'll dive into 3 EPIC blues licks that are all right out of the pentatonic/blues scale in the key of E.
These licks are note-for-note from the beginning of Howlin' Wolf's "Back Door Man."
If you haven't heard this recording check it out on YouTube it has over 11 million views! Wolf starts off the song doing a little rant about the blues, and then he says, "I'ma show you how to play the blues, now you just sit here and watch me" then he plays these 3 licks that give me the chills every time!
Click the link below to watch:
