Blues Lead Guitar: Linking Blues Scales Patterns. Lesson #8of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-018)

Justin's Completely Free, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson BL-018. Lesson 8.

PART 8 in series of 20. This lesson shows you how to link Patterns 1 and 2 of the Minor Pentatonic scales using five cool licks.

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Hello, Justin here.

I hope your lick playing is going well.

Now, one of the things
a lot of people struggle with is

once they've got some licks down on position one
and they can play some licks,

that's all cool,
they learn position two.

They get some licks in position two,
they can use them too.

One of the things people find a little bit sticky

is getting from position one
to position two.

So what I'm going to do is
to show you a couple of tricks,

and I'm going to do it as licks

that you can use to help to get yourself
from position one up to position two.

I'll play them for you wider on first,
so you know what's going on.

The very first one starts really,
to tell the truth, in position five

which we haven't covered yet,
but we are only using two notes from it anyway,

so I'm sure you can handle that much.

And, what we use is a third finger slide
each time where there's a tone step up,

you'll see this in a sec,

and it gets us all the way from having
a first finger in the 3rd fret,

to having a first finger in the 10th fret.

Quite a lot of movement in this lick,

so it's going all the way
from position five to position three.

Big movement!

OK, so the lick sounds like this:

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It's quite a big move.

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And lick number two is:

. . .

Pretty simple one that one, it's only got two notes,
but it's a really useful shift.

. . .

Lick number three uses
a direct position shift

which would be this:

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That kind of thing,
it's just to directly shifting.

We've got to talk about how to use that
in quite a few different ways.

And also number four we've got,

which is a really cool kind of
Stevie Ray style lick,

where we use a little slide up
from position one to position two,

then straight back to position one,
so we get this

. . .

There's quite a few variations you can use
on that one as well. Very cool lick.

And lick number five lastly,
is using this little two note trick to go:

. . .

Really nice way of getting that.
That one's taking us from position one / two

all of the way up to position four.
So that's a good one as well.

So, what we need to do now is
to go to the close up,

make sure that you can follow
and get the right fingers. Here we go!

OK, so this one's not that close up,
because we are traveling a lot of ground here.

So, we're starting here with the 3rd finger
at the 5th fret, of the 6th sting.

So, we play that note first (plays)

Then we are on the 1st finger,
3rd fret of the 5th string,

followed by the 3rd finger
in the 5th fret of the 5th string,

and then that finger is going to slide up two frets
to get to the 7th fret.

So that first little bit is this:

. . .

Again:

. . .

I'm not picking this last note,
that's just slid up from the 5th fret.

Then, to continue, we're going to go:
5-7, 5-7, slide.

Just a straight up walk
in the middle part of position one pentatonic

and then the third finger
is going to slide up two frets,

this is exactly the same as we did before.

. . .

And now we have again exactly the same pattern,

but starting here
with the 1st finger at the 8th fret.

So, it's going 1-3, 1-3, slide.

. . .

OK, the whole thing now:

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And a little bit faster:

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OK, lick number two.

This is quite an interesting one as well.

Now, this one is only two notes long,
so it's pretty simple.

It's a very common blues trick,

and what we are doing here
is we're starting with our first finger

in 5ht fret of the thinnest string,

and going to the same note, our third finger,
I'll play that one first

. . .

Third finger is reaching out to the
8th fret of the 2nd string

and very quickly sliding up
to the 10th fret.

. . .

Which is actually the same note.

. . .

But we're using it to slide up,

so we can get a good vibrato
and change position at the same time.

. . .

Now, of course we can't get a very good vibrato
there on the thinnest string,

because it's a bit too close
to the edge of the neck, so:

. . .

Really, really common blues lick that,
and a good trick.

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So if you're playing in position one:

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Just use that to shift you up to position two.
Excellent little trick.

OK, into number three.

Now, number three is a direct shift,

so we're not to use any slide
or any tricks like that to get up,

we're just jumping up between the positions.

Now, you can either practice here
using 4th finger and 1st finger from position one

. . .

and then jumping up with the 3rd finger
up to the 10th fret of the thinnest string:

. . .

Or, you can use 3-1 here,
in position one:

. . .

OK, now we've got cool lick number four,
the Stevie Ray Vaughn style lick,

one of my favorite licks, I must say,
I really like this one.

We are starting in position one with the 3rd finger
on the 7th fret of the 3rd sting,

we slide that up two frets,
to the 9th fret:

. . .

and now we're going to use here
the 2nd finger on the 8th fret of the 2nd string

. . .

back to our note on the 9th fret
with the 3rd finger and slide it back two

. . .

and we're going to finish it off
with 1st finger, 5th fret, 3rd string

. . .

that's just putting the 3rd finger over there
to the 7th fret of the 4th string.

So, the whole lick is:

. . .

And of course it repeats
as many times as you like,

it's a nice little eight note lick.

So, it also goes a bit faster,

. . .

You can also screw
with the timing a little bit on this

and start to get the slide a little quicker
with little bit longer on the note G.

. . .

OK, and lastly we've got lick number five.

Now lick number five goes up
a little bit further than before,

so we might have to get to Jedi
to just shift his way over a little bit,

so I'll need to get right up here.
Can you see me in there?

Good, mate.

OK, so we are starting here,
we're going to use our 2nd and 3rd fingers.

It's quite important to use those fingers

for reasons that I don't want to explain
too much right now,

but we're gonna start 2nd finger in the 8th fret,
3rd finger in the 9th fret

. . .

and then we move that shape up two frets,
so we are on 10 and 11:

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Up another three frets,
so we are on 13 and 14:

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and then we should leave our 2nd finger down
and go to the 1st and 2nd finger

. . .

and you can put a curl on the 13th
if you want to.

You're holding the 12th still with your 1st finger
and putting a little curl with your 2nd finger

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Sounds pretty cool, so:

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Usually played with quite a lot of strums
on each one,

It's really good one if you want to kind of
pick as fast as you can, and go:

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Gets quite funky like that. A bit of distortion,
and that lick sounds really wicked.

But it's also just a nice way to shift

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You really play it with any rythm that you like.

I hope you've had a bit of fun
getting those licks down,

that help you shift from one position to the next.

Now your task is to be able to play a little solo
with the backing track,

hang about in position one for a while,

use one of the licks to transfer yourself
out into position two,

then hang about in position two,
using your licks all the way.

Don't just think of scale tones,
think of : position one, a few licks

use a lick to transcend
between position one and two

(joking) or into Budha godness
if you transcend too far.

Did I just said that!?

and into position two (laughs)

And once you're in position two,

you also want to play about
using the licks in position two.

So, you are kind of using licks all the time,
as opposed to just scale tones.

That's really, really important.

So, have a little bit of play about with that.

Also really important, of course,
is to experiment at this stage.

Try and take the ideas
that I've shown you there

and see if you can apply them
to other positions of the scales,

especially if we get going once
we've done all of the positions,

you'll probably find that
that lick we've used in position one,

here the shifting one,

you could use that to get from other positions
to other positions

Or, just as a little hint that you should definitely
check out yourself later, just not now.

OK, I hope that it made sense.

Play about, experiment with those things.

Hope that helps you to get your solos

between position one and position two
nice and smooth,

and I'll see you for another lesson real soon.