1 00:00:06,605 --> 00:00:10,866 How, you doin? Justin here, and we're up for a pretty cool little lesson now. 2 00:00:10,866 --> 00:00:13,615 And that's: we're checking out blues improvising. 3 00:00:13,615 --> 00:00:15,918 So, the twelve bar blues that we've learned previously, 4 00:00:15,918 --> 00:00:19,539 the rhythm guitar part, works really well with the minor pentatonic scale. 5 00:00:19,539 --> 00:00:23,567 And although there's a lot of things for you to learn, like string bending and licks and stuff, 6 00:00:23,567 --> 00:00:26,854 it can be quite good fun to just get in there and just start playing this stuff. 7 00:00:26,854 --> 00:00:30,233 And experimenting a little bit with how that scale sounds. 8 00:00:30,233 --> 00:00:33,838 So, what I'm going to do for you now, is just a little bit of fun, 9 00:00:33,838 --> 00:00:37,744 is I'm going to give you a little demonstration of some ideas that you might want to use. 10 00:00:37,744 --> 00:00:40,228 Now, it's kind of hard for me, to be completely honest, 11 00:00:40,228 --> 00:00:43,140 to play just in position one and not to use other notes 12 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:44,936 and not to use string bends and stuff like that. 13 00:00:44,936 --> 00:00:48,654 Just because I kind of do it all the time and it's hard to really restrict yourself. 14 00:00:48,654 --> 00:00:50,357 But I'm going to have a go. 15 00:00:50,357 --> 00:00:54,080 So, the things I want you to watch out for is: you don't have to play all the time. 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,373 You can play a little phrase, 17 00:00:55,373 --> 00:01:00,254 "bi-doo, doo, stop. bi-doo, doo, stop." 18 00:01:00,254 --> 00:01:02,621 So the idea of having a little motive is a good thing. 19 00:01:02,621 --> 00:01:04,869 Don't feel like you have to just play all the time. 20 00:01:04,869 --> 00:01:08,486 See if you can play something that sounds a little bit musical, with a little bit of repetition, 21 00:01:08,486 --> 00:01:11,825 is also a good idea. To have a little idea that repeats itself. 22 00:01:11,825 --> 00:01:15,102 You could have a go at using some of those pattern studies and stuff if you wanted to, 23 00:01:15,102 --> 00:01:17,313 that might be an interesting thing too. 24 00:01:17,313 --> 00:01:19,436 The idea really is to just experiment. 25 00:01:19,436 --> 00:01:23,224 Now hopefully, some of you guys have got somebody to jam with. 26 00:01:23,224 --> 00:01:28,625 If not, there's a twelve bar blues backing track available on the website. 27 00:01:28,625 --> 00:01:31,296 And also, for those DVD users, 28 00:01:31,296 --> 00:01:35,430 there'll be a DVD extra of a "Twelve Bar Blues Jam With Justin", 29 00:01:35,430 --> 00:01:37,790 where I'm going to do some rhythm guitar for you to have a jam along with. 30 00:01:37,790 --> 00:01:40,365 But right now I've got my jam buddy: 31 00:01:40,365 --> 00:01:43,988 Jedi, do you fancy coming and playing some twelve bar blues for me, cobba? 32 00:01:43,988 --> 00:01:47,651 - Oh man, that'd be great! Yeah, thought you'd never ask. 33 00:01:51,881 --> 00:01:53,321 Oh dear. 34 00:01:53,321 --> 00:01:55,228 - Shall I just say yes? 35 00:01:55,228 --> 00:01:57,316 Erm, it just sounded funny! 36 00:01:59,563 --> 00:02:02,192 Hey, how you doin? So, welcome the Jedi. 37 00:02:02,192 --> 00:02:02,692 - Hey! 38 00:02:02,692 --> 00:02:04,707 So, we've got Jedi from the other side of the camera, 39 00:02:04,707 --> 00:02:08,078 we just dragged him 'round here to play a little bit of twelve bar blues with me. 40 00:02:08,078 --> 00:02:11,129 So he's going to do a little bit of the twelve bar blues rhythm guitar 41 00:02:11,129 --> 00:02:14,067 and I'm just going to give you a bit of a demonstration of a really, 42 00:02:14,067 --> 00:02:18,287 really nice, easy little solo to play, using the minor pentatonic. 43 00:02:18,287 --> 00:02:22,251 So, I'm going to, I might end up doing some things that I haven't showed you yet. 44 00:02:22,251 --> 00:02:26,039 But I'm going to try really not to do any bending and stuff like that. But... 45 00:02:26,039 --> 00:02:29,094 So, just have a bit of a look, but the idea will be just for you to jam 46 00:02:29,094 --> 00:02:31,185 and you to have a bit of fun on your own, 47 00:02:31,185 --> 00:02:34,683 experimenting with that scale. If you want to get more into the lead guitar stuff, 48 00:02:34,683 --> 00:02:37,040 check out the Blues Lead guitar course on the site. 49 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,708 Because that explains all these things, like: 50 00:02:38,708 --> 00:02:42,128 how to use the scale properly and how to learn licks. But it's just, 51 00:02:42,128 --> 00:02:44,204 could be quite fun just to jam around with this now. 52 00:02:44,204 --> 00:02:48,424 So, I'll play a little intro and then we'll head off, Jed. Is that alright? 53 00:02:48,424 --> 00:02:50,722 Yeah, yeah, let's go. 54 00:02:50,722 --> 00:03:50,212 . . . 55 00:03:50,212 --> 00:03:52,251 Have lots of space 56 00:03:52,251 --> 00:04:17,890 . . . 57 00:04:17,890 --> 00:04:20,534 Thank you very much, Jedi. - Thank you, Justin. 58 00:04:20,534 --> 00:04:23,365 And thank you very much for all the filming and hard work there, cobba. 59 00:04:23,365 --> 00:04:26,943 This is the Jedi, out on the right side of the camera. Hey! 60 00:04:29,681 --> 00:04:32,857 So, I hope you enjoyed that little jam I just had with Jed. 61 00:04:32,857 --> 00:04:35,530 I didn't manage to stick to the minor pentatonic notes all the time, 62 00:04:35,530 --> 00:04:38,557 but I did for the most part. I probably played a little bit too much, 63 00:04:38,557 --> 00:04:41,065 especially seeing as I've tried to illustrate to you the idea 64 00:04:41,065 --> 00:04:42,708 that you can just play a few notes. 65 00:04:42,708 --> 00:04:46,881 So, maybe I'm just as guilty as you guys usually are. So anyway, the idea here is just 66 00:04:46,881 --> 00:04:50,493 to have a little bit of fun. Try jamming along with that minor pentatonic scale. 67 00:04:50,493 --> 00:04:53,170 If you get really into it, go and check out the Blues Lead Guitar course. 68 00:04:53,170 --> 00:04:55,125 Because it really is, that's a lot of fun. 69 00:04:55,125 --> 00:04:57,125 And it'll teach you all of the skills that you need 70 00:04:57,125 --> 00:05:01,785 to do good blues improvising. I hope. So, have a crack on that, 71 00:05:01,785 --> 00:05:04,402 have a bit of a laugh. And I've, we've got one last little thing to do, 72 00:05:04,402 --> 00:05:08,204 which is to consolidate all the stuff we've done in this course. 73 00:05:08,204 --> 00:05:10,347 Which, let's face it, is quite a lot of stuff. 74 00:05:10,347 --> 00:05:14,805 So, I'll see you for that Consolidation Lesson in just a moment.