Basic Blues Improvisation (Guitar Lesson BC-196) Guitar for beginners Stage 9

Justin's Completely Free, Beginners Guitar Course Lesson BC-196.
This is Stage 9, Lesson 6.

In this video we look at the very basic principles of improvisation. How to use a minor pentatonic over a 12 Bar Blues sequence!

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How, you doin? Justin here, and we're up for
a pretty cool little lesson now.

And that's: we're checking out blues improvising.

So, the twelve bar blues that we've learned previously,

the rhythm guitar part, works really well
with the minor pentatonic scale.

And although there's a lot of things for you to learn,
like string bending and licks and stuff,

it can be quite good fun to just get in there
and just start playing this stuff.

And experimenting a little bit with how that scale sounds.

So, what I'm going to do for you now, is just a little bit of fun,

is I'm going to give you a little demonstration of some ideas that you might want to use.

Now, it's kind of hard for me, to be completely honest,

to play just in position one and not to use other notes

and not to use string bends and stuff like that.

Just because I kind of do it all the time and it's hard
to really restrict yourself.

But I'm going to have a go.

So, the things I want you to watch out for is:
you don't have to play all the time.

You can play a little phrase,

"bi-doo, doo, stop. bi-doo, doo, stop."

So the idea of having a little motive is a good thing.

Don't feel like you have to just play all the time.

See if you can play something that sounds a little bit musical, with a little bit of repetition,

is also a good idea. To have a little idea that repeats itself.

You could have a go at using some of those
pattern studies and stuff if you wanted to,

that might be an interesting thing too.

The idea really is to just experiment.

Now hopefully, some of you guys have got
somebody to jam with.

If not, there's a twelve bar blues backing track available
on the website.

And also, for those DVD users,

there'll be a DVD extra of a
"Twelve Bar Blues Jam With Justin",

where I'm going to do some rhythm guitar
for you to have a jam along with.

But right now I've got my jam buddy:

Jedi, do you fancy coming and playing some
twelve bar blues for me, cobba?

- Oh man, that'd be great! Yeah, thought you'd never ask.

Oh dear.

- Shall I just say yes?

Erm, it just sounded funny!

Hey, how you doin? So, welcome the Jedi.

- Hey!

So, we've got Jedi from the other side of the camera,

we just dragged him 'round here to play a little bit of
twelve bar blues with me.

So he's going to do a little bit of
the twelve bar blues rhythm guitar

and I'm just going to give you a bit of
a demonstration of a really,

really nice, easy little solo to play,
using the minor pentatonic.

So, I'm going to, I might end up doing
some things that I haven't showed you yet.

But I'm going to try really not to do any bending
and stuff like that. But...

So, just have a bit of a look, but the idea will be
just for you to jam

and you to have a bit of fun on your own,

experimenting with that scale. If you want
to get more into the lead guitar stuff,

check out the Blues Lead guitar course on the site.

Because that explains all these things, like:

how to use the scale properly and how to learn licks.
But it's just,

could be quite fun just to jam around with this now.

So, I'll play a little intro and then we'll head off, Jed.
Is that alright?

Yeah, yeah, let's go.

. . .

Have lots of space

. . .

Thank you very much, Jedi. - Thank you, Justin.

And thank you very much for all the filming
and hard work there, cobba.

This is the Jedi, out on the right side of the camera. Hey!

So, I hope you enjoyed that little jam I just had with Jed.

I didn't manage to stick to the minor pentatonic notes
all the time,

but I did for the most part.
I probably played a little bit too much,

especially seeing as I've tried to
illustrate to you the idea

that you can just play a few notes.

So, maybe I'm just as guilty as you guys usually are.
So anyway, the idea here is just

to have a little bit of fun. Try jamming along
with that minor pentatonic scale.

If you get really into it, go and check out
the Blues Lead Guitar course.

Because it really is, that's a lot of fun.

And it'll teach you all of the skills that you need

to do good blues improvising. I hope.
So, have a crack on that,

have a bit of a laugh.
And I've, we've got one last little thing to do,

which is to consolidate all the stuff
we've done in this course.

Which, let's face it, is quite a lot of stuff.

So, I'll see you for that Consolidation Lesson
in just a moment.