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Okay, we've covered an awful lot of ground 
in this little blues course.

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It's really important that you practice the right things 
to make the most of your practice time

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and to make sure 
that you really digest this information.

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So, what should you be doing?

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Well, the first thing that needs to go
into your practice schedule

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is to learn the licks.

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Of course you need to learn the scale positions as well :
they go around the licks

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but definitely knowing the licks for each position 
is really important.

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So it's worth practicing each one up.

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Really working on trying to make it sound good.

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Not just getting the notes right

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but thinking about how loud and soft 
you pick the notes.

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The whole dynamic feel of it, 
whether you really give it some aggression,

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or whether it's soft and delicate,
that kind of thing.

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That makes a huge difference to the way 
people can project through their playing.

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So, learning your licks, 
getting the licks down right,

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is the first thing 
that you should be worried about.

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The next thing is making sure that you use them.

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Now what I recommend for all of my students 
is that you use a backing track.

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Now, if you're lucky enough to be in a band 
and you can practice using the licks with a band

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then that's the best thing ever 
but not everyone has that luxury,

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so a backing track is a pretty close second.

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Now, there's backing tracks available 
from my site, including a couple of free ones,

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so use those. 
There's plenty around on the Internet

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so just look about and find yourself 
some backing tracks to jam to.

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It's really important.

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The ones that you'll get from my site 
are 5 minute long,

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which is a good amount of time 
to practice one lick.

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Now I did talk about this in an earlier lesson, 
in Blues Lead Guitar, Volume One

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but just to reiterate it here, 
take one lick that I've given you

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and use it as many different times,

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as many different ways as you can 
for a whole five minutes.

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What you'll find is that after the first minute

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you've used everyway 
that you can possibly think of to play the lick.

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And that way you'll start really pushing your boundaries 
of the ways that you can use that lick.

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It's also worth, within that five minutes,

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maybe towards the last part of it, 
the last minute or so,

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linking up with some other licks 
that you already know from that position.

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So you can sit there and go from one lick 
and then smoothly into another lick

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and then back to the first lick or whatever. 
Letting them blend.

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Because what you don't want is to have:

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Here's the licks that you've learned on this DVD 
or from wherever else,

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and when you play, it's got nothing to do 
with that collection of licks.

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You have to try and blend them 
in to your playing

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so that they naturally just come out 
whenever you play your pentatonic.

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That's kind of the point.

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As well as doing that, 
you might want to add to your playing schedule,

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after you've done all of these individual licks 
in individual positions

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would be linking positions and practicing 
moving from one place to another place

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and using those slides to join them together 
or shifts or using the same note.

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A good idea is just to pick one specific thing 
and practice that.

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So, either practice moving from one position 
to another position that's right next door

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or, practice jumping from one end of the neck 
to the other end of the neck

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and back to the middle somewhere, 
really jumping around a lot.

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But really trying to find the thing, 
it is that you're going to practice

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and then work on that one thing 
over and over.

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Okay, now, the other really, really big question 
that people have is

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"You've taught me loads of stuff 
about playing in the key of A

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but I want to play in other keys too."

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Actually, you have to play in other keys 
and it's really, really important.

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But the reason that I taught you 
everything in the key of A is so that

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you really start to understand each position.

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Now, once you can play, 
for example, position one.

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You've learned your licks 
in position one in the key of A

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and you've done your homework 
and you've really got it sounding good.

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Now, if you want to move that to the key of C, 
all you need to do is move the root note.

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And this is why I keep going on all the time, 
through all my lessons,

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about the importance
of knowing which note is the root note.

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Because all you have to do 
is to move that root note to the note of your new key

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and you've got your new scale.

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For example, position one in A 
was around the 5th fret.

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If you wanted to play in C,

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you simply move that whole bunch of stuff 
up to the 8th fret

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because the root note for the key of C is the note C, 
8th fret, 6th string.

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And then you can play 
all of your position one licks.

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You'll find that a little bit weird at first

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because you've been playing so much 
in the key of A.

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So what you want to start again with 
is just playing position one.

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Get use to playing position one 
in your new key.

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When you feel confident with that, 
maybe try going from position one up into position two,

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back to position one, up to position two, 
back to position one,

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and start to see 
that they kind of link together.

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And because you've already done it 
in the key of A

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you will find it quite easy, I'm sure, 
to link through all your different positions

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if you've done your homework 
in the key of A well enough.

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Which I'm hoping you will have done.

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Other things we need to talk about quickly : 
new licks.

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I've given you a bunch of licks 
but Eric Clapton certainly didn't learn licks from a DVD

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by some weird Tasmanian guy 
who teaches via the Internet.

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You learn licks from records.

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The sooner you get transcribing 
and listening to your favorite BB King

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or Eric Clapton 
or whoever you like's album

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and trying to work out their licks. 
That's what you should be doing.

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That is the real way to learn to play blues guitar 
and there's no substitute for it.

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I've given you a really good course 
that I think will help you on your way

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but you need to transcribe things.

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There's no question, 
you must do that


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if you want to end up being
even a competent guitar player,

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(it) has to be transcribing stuff.

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Now to help you with that, I have a product, 
which I'm not saying you have to buy

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you can be using your own CDs like Clapton CDs 
or whatever if you like but I've got this thing,

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this really useful blues solos pack 
where I recorded five different solos

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in the style of five different guitar players 
and they progressively get harder

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and they use a mixture of the different pentatonic scales
and they're full of licks.

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I picked each guitar player's 
(twenty, whatever) favorite licks

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and then squashed them all into a new solo, 
made a backing track and recorded it.

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So I've made sure 
they're pretty straight-forward to transcribe

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and you get the tabs as well 
so after you've transcribed it,

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like worked it out by ear yourself, 
you can then check it against my transcription

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and make sure that everything's okay.

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So, that's a really, really important thing 
that you do next is work on your own licks.

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Mega, mega important.

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One last thing, there is another note 
that you will find crops up quite a lot in blues,

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In the key of A, this is the note C#.

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And the reason this note is there 
is because it comes from an A7 chord.

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but whenever you use that note particularly, 
it only fits over the A7 chord

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and in a blues, hopefully 
you remember that it's got the chords A, D and E.

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Or A7, D7 and E7.

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Any licks that use the note C# 
only sound good over the A chord.

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So the reason they're not covered here

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is because these things, 
they're called chord specific licks,

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and they're going to get covered 
in Advanced Blues Lead Guitar

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which will be coming to you very soon.

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So, don't stress about that. 
If you want a quick snippet of what I'm talking about

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you might like to check out a series of videos 
on my web site called 'Jazz up your blues'

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which talks about this concept a bit 
and gives you an introduction to the use of arpeggios

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which is a very cool thing to do.

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Well I hope you've enjoyed this series 
of blues lead guitar lessons.

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Be it on the DVD or if you've watched it on Youtube 
or through the web site.

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I really hope that it helps expand your blues playing

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and takes you to new, and cool, and hip places 
that you never thought you'd go to before.

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I've seen many of my private students 
really progress

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from being complete beginners 
in the lead guitar department

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to really doing 
some pretty good quality solos.

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It's all about the licks.

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Okay, take care of yourselves, 
and I will see you again for another lesson real soon.

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Bye bye.