Blues Lead Guitar: Blues Intros & Endings #10of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-020) How to play
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0:06 - 0:10It's really important of course if you're playing a blues tune that you know how to start and how to finish,
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0:10 - 0:15and it's very often a cue that the lead guitar player will give as to weather he wants to do another round of
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0:15 - 0:20solos, or weather he wants to finish the song, so it's important that you learn a couple of phrases.
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0:20 - 0:25It's almost - if we go back to my "blues is like a language" analogy, it's important that you learn how
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0:25 - 0:29to say: "stop" and "keep going", so they are the two things that we are going to learn today.
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0:29 - 0:38Now, the actual licks that we use for intros and endings are often exactly the same, except for the chord we finish on.
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0:38 - 0:44Now if I just take a really, really basic, err, it's going to be the first intro and ending that we learn,
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0:44 - 0:50but have a listen to how the effect of the chord that I finish on changes weather it sounds like it's an ending,
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0:50 - 0:53or weather it's a repeating. One of the repeating ones first, it would sound like this.
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0:53 - 0:56. . .
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0:56 - 1:02You hear it wants to go - once you go to this -
well it's called the five chord, -
1:02 - 1:10which in this blues in the key of A is an E7 chord (strums), it wants to go back to (strums) A and start again.
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1:10 - 1:15. . .
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1:15 - 1:19It doesn't feel like - if I just finish there, it would sound a bit weird.
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1:19 - 1:25. . .
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1:25 - 1:29Like you want it to keep going, you can't stop there on that five chord, it sounds weird.
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1:29 - 1:35Whereas if instead of going to E7 at the end I go to A7 at the end of the lick - I'm going to use that little sidestep -
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1:35 - 1:40I'll explain that you in a sec. again - then I'm going to do it now to an A7 chord, and it sounds like it's finished.
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1:40 - 1:44You almost - you couldn't keep going even if you wanted to.
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1:44 - 1:49. . .
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1:49 - 1:54It's finished. You can't keep going after that, you just can't. You could not, yeah.
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1:54 - 1:58so the important thing to realize here is that an intro and an ending are the same thing -
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1:58 - 2:03an intro is also the thing you would use to kind of continue it if you like,
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2:03 - 2:09it's import to realize that the only thing that's changing between those is the chord that you finish on.
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2:09 - 2:18So in a blues in A, if you play an A chord at the end of your blues intro or ending, then it's going to finish it.
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2:18 - 2:27It's going to make it into an ending. If you finish with a five chord, which is the fifth chord in the key of A, which is E7,
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2:27 - 2:32then that's going to mean that the lick or the tune will continue and that you want to keep something going.
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2:32 - 2:38So, the five licks that we are going to be looking at - five intros and endings,
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2:38 - 2:45I'm going to play then for now as endings, just so you can hear what they sound like and then you know of course,
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2:45 - 2:51that if instead of finshing with the A7 you finished with an E7 that the lick would continue going -
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2:51 - 2:57it would make the tune want to keep on rolling. So, here we go - the first one, I already played it to you before,
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2:57 - 2:59but just have a listen to it again, is this one.
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2:59 - 3:04. . .
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3:04 - 3:06That's lick number 1.
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3:06 - 3:09Lick number 2 is this.
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3:09 - 3:14. . .
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3:14 - 3:17Again, played as an ending, that's a kind of a Robert Johnson style one.
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3:17 - 3:23We've got another - number 3 is kind of a variation, quite similar to number 1,
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3:23 - 3:26very common in kind of rockabilly and stuff, which is this.
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3:26 - 3:30. . .
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3:30 - 3:37Number 4 we've got is a really interesting one. It's in contrary motion, meaning one voice is going up,
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3:37 - 3:40. . .
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3:40 - 3:43and one voice goes down at the same time.
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3:43 - 3:44. . .
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3:44 - 3:46Put'em together.
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3:46 - 3:49. . .
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3:49 - 3:51Quite an interesting sound.
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3:51 - 3:53. . .
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3:53 - 3:59Again, I'm playing them all as endings, but you could use them for intros as well.
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3:59 - 4:04And the last one is the almighty classic - I wasn't going to include this, but I think it's so fun and everone should
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4:04 - 4:06learn how to do it, this is the.
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4:06 - 4:10. . .
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4:10 - 4:12Just because you need to know that one you know,
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4:12 - 4:17but it also works as a continuation if you leave off the last three notes, so if you go
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4:17 - 4:22. . .
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4:22 - 4:28And then you're off again, so it can actually work as a continuation lick as well,
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4:28 - 4:34or an intro lick, it doesn't have to be an ending, although the classic use of that lick is of course as an ending.
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4:34 - 4:37So let's get to a close-up now and run through these licks.
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4:37 - 4:45So here we go for lick 1 or intro/ending 1 we're starting with the third finger at the ninth fret,
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4:45 - 4:49and we're also putting the little finger down also in the ninth fret but on the thinnest string,
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4:49 - 4:55and you're going to pick third string, first string, third string, move it down one fret, do the same thing,
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4:55 - 4:58move it down one fret and do the same thing, so you get this
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4:58 - 5:06. . .
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5:06 - 5:11And we finish using a little bar with our first finger over the thinnest two strings,
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5:11 - 5:17second finger down on the sixth fret of the third string (strums).
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5:17 - 5:26. . .
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5:26 - 5:33Okay so here we go for lick number 2. This is a bit of a weird one some of you might find this a bit difficult.
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5:33 - 5:41Don't worry, it's just going to take practice. Second finger, fifth fret, fourth string. Third finger, fifth fret, second string.
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5:41 - 5:48Little finger underneath, fifth fret, thinnest string. Now the little finger is going to stay in the same place all the time.
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5:48 - 5:53You can play lots of different variations of this lick, so I'm just going to play each one once,
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5:53 - 5:56but you can play really lots of different rhythms. We start here with a pick (picks).
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5:56 - 6:07And we can move all of the fingers off except little finger, and put our first finger down as a bar (strums).
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6:07 - 6:16Then we move that bar back one fret (strums). And then back another fret (strums).
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6:16 - 6:19And again.
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6:19 - 6:24. . .
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6:24 - 6:28You can change the rhythm, you might go:
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6:28 - 6:31. . .
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6:31 - 6:33Or any of that sort of rhythm would work.
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6:33 - 6:37For those of you that haven't thought about it before: yes, you're going to have to use picking fingers here,
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6:37 - 6:39or finger style, you can't play that lick with a plectrum.
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6:39 - 6:48Okay, lick 3 is a pretty straight forward one, we've got this first finger at the fifth fret of the thinnest string.
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6:48 - 6:54That note is going to stay the same all the time, and the note on the second string is going to go from eigth fret,
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6:54 - 7:00seventh fret, sixth fret, and then we move the first finger over to create a little bar on the thinnest two strings.
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7:00 - 7:05You can either use your third finger like that, third finger, third finger, second finger and then the bar,
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7:05 - 7:09or four, three, two, bar - it doesn't really matter.
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7:09 - 7:16. . .
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7:16 - 7:18or:
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7:18 - 7:24. . .
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7:24 - 7:27Okay, here we are for lick 4.
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7:27 - 7:33Now lick 4 is this interesting contrary motion one where we have these notes here, starting on the second fret, going:
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7:33 - 7:37. . .
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7:37 - 7:43And we also have these notes here starting at the fifth fret on the fourth string:
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7:43 - 7:45. . .
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7:45 - 7:48And we play them at the same time.
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7:48 - 7:50Now, there's lots of different fingering options for this.
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7:50 - 7:56The fingering that I prefer for myself most of the time is using first finger and third finger first:
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7:56 - 7:57. . .
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7:57 - 8:04Sliding up with my first finger and putting my second finger down on the fourth string.
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8:04 - 8:05. . .
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8:05 - 8:11Then swapping to first and third or first and fourth depending on what mood I'm in:
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8:11 - 8:13. . .
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8:13 - 8:19Then sliding first finger back and fourth finger goes down on the second string:
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8:19 - 8:20. . .
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8:20 - 8:22So you end up with this:
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8:22 - 8:28. . .
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8:28 - 8:36Okay, lick number 5 here. This is a classic kind of ending thing which is almost funny, but it's very kind of generic,
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8:36 - 8:38you should at least know this one.
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8:38 - 8:49We're starting here, third finger, fifth fret, first finger, third fret, step it back, step it back again.
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8:49 - 9:03Open E string, first finger, second fret, third finger fourth fret, and then slide third finger up to the fifth fret.
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9:03 - 9:05So:
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9:05 - 9:08. . .
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9:08 - 9:14Okay the last thing that we need to
cover on this intros and ending, -
9:14 - 9:20I mentioned in the beginning is a thing called a side slide which is when you step to a chord from one fret below,
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9:20 - 9:32or one fret above. So, if we had an A7 chord (strums), we can step up to it (strums), or down to it (strums).
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9:32 - 9:47So if we took our first little intro lick that we had (plays), or we could step up to it (plays fowl), sorry, (plays).
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9:47 - 9:54And both them are functioning just as well as each other, it's just really stepping from above or from below.
- Title:
- Blues Lead Guitar: Blues Intros & Endings #10of20 (Guitar Lesson BL-020) How to play
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Justin's Completely Free, Blues Lead Guitar Lesson BL-020. Lesson 10.
PART 10 in series of 20. This lesson covers five intro and ending licks and how to use them to improve your blues lead playing.
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