Blues Lessons. Part 1 - Blues Ear

This text help to "open the Blues ear..." Enjoy !

Lick 1:                     Lick 2:
|-----------------------5--|--------------------------------------|
|--------------------------|--------------------------------------|
|-8--7--5--7(BU)--5--------|----------------------------8--7------|
|--------------------7-----|----------------------------7--6------|
|--------------------------|-------4--4--5--5--6--6--7--8--7------|
|--------------------------|-5--5---------------------------------|

Lick 3: (Slide into the Notes)            Lick 4: (Slide in the Notes)
|-----12----------11----------10------8--|----------------5-------|
|-12------12--11------11--10------10--8--|-5--7--5--7-------------|
|-------------------------------------9--|-------------6----------|
|----------------------------------------|-5--7--5--7-------------|
|----------------------------------------|------------------------|
|----------------------------------------|------------------------|

Lick 5:
|-------------------------------------7(BU)--5-------------|
|-------------------------------5--------------------------|
|----------------------5--7--8-----7-----------------------|
|----------5-----5--7--------------------------------------|
|-5--6--7-----7--------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------|

Comments

[stpd1]

good lesson

[ZoSo_420]

what does this have to do with a "Blues Ear"?

[isaluteu]

nice licks man

[adm]

good lesson

[lost harmonics]

not liking them at all

[JustPushPlay]

Why are you not liking them at all?
They're great Led Zeppelin style blues licks!!!

[FeatherBreeze]

these are awesome ut you should add some more to the bb king styl stuff...sorry for the bad criticism this is a great lesson

[M3talJ3ff]

Awsome licks i really enjoyed this lesson made me smile

[Iboseth]

What does (BU) means?
Good lesson

[ledfilly]

these suck, plus the first lick is an old jazz tune

[strumntheguitar]

BU means bend up i'm assuming.

Theses are decent blues licks, but they're way too short i think. but they're easy to branch off of

[ZoSo.Led.Zep.]

theyre good thanks homie

[loadedsixstring]

they're decent. lick 3 is good.

[pink_guitarist]

nice article man, licks are good and the guys who say that the lick suck ur a bunch of self minded fuc*ers

[deslni01]

People don't understand that posting a few licks and not even completing a paragraph (let alone a sentence) does not constitute a lesson. This is not a lesson, this is a tab. If there was some information being told about the licks, for example, it'd improve it. If it explained what is going on with the licks, or why they are "blues" licks, it would help people learn blues.

If I were to create a lesson titled "How to play awesome solos" and then copied the Stairway and Comfortable Numb solos into it, without hardly any words, would you count that as a lesson? Would that help you learn how to solo? Hardly - it'd just help you know someone elses solo, not how it is constructed, why it flows the way it does, or anything at all.

I'm sorry for this long rant, but people are too concerned about putting their stuff up so people know who they are. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do; half-assed lessons and articles are useless and a waste of time.

[Bobbyl]

Well des I wonder if you can explaina a guitar lesson as good as you can b*** s**t, any way consenses say most people appreciate the tab but hey I guess you are a guitar guru and need no base to give you and idea, Well I say you post a lesson in your words and comments and leave out the copy and pastes and lets see what reviews you recieve, after all most songs, runs and riffs are copied after each other in some way shape or form arent they, I say power to the people trying. Not to the ones criticizing.
Cheers Restless in Toronto.

[Bobbyl]

Well des I wonder if you can explaina a guitar lesson as good as you can b*** s**t, any way consenses say most people appreciate the tab but hey I guess you are a guitar guru and need no base to give you and idea, Well I say you post a lesson in your words and comments and leave out the copy and pastes and lets see what reviews you recieve, after all most songs, runs and riffs are copied after each other in some way shape or form arent they, I say power to the people trying. Not to the ones criticizing. Cheers Restless in Toronto.

[Bobbyl]

Well des I wonder if you can explaina a guitar lesson as good as you can b*** s**t, any way consenses say most people appreciate the tab but hey I guess you are a guitar guru and need no base to give you and idea, Well I say you post a lesson in your words and comments and leave out the copy and pastes and lets see what reviews you recieve, after all most songs, runs and riffs are copied after each other in some way shape or form arent they, I say power to the people trying. Not to the ones criticizing.
Cheers Restless in Toronto.

[CoDee]

The blues is a style that doesn't always sound 'right' to some people. This is a lesson to open your ear to the style of blues, and it does just that. Nothing more, nothing less.

[metal4all]

not much a lesson rather an idea of what blues can be. nice licks though

[Nuzza]

awesome licks, gives a good eye opener to those who dont listen to blues that often.

[vinvek]

yeah not too good..

[Metallica333]

would be better with some sound clips...i dont really need em ive loved the blues for a long time but the ppl like vinvek say

vinvek wrote:

yeah not too good..

he probably needs some sound clips

great lesson though

[bassmaniac101]

Not really a lesson, but I like the licks.

[generalsoilder]

ZoSo_420 wrote:

what does this have to do with a "Blues Ear"?

It seems as if this relation to "Blues Ear" is teaching beginners the "Ear" to sensing Blues

[cheeseisthebomb]

Like em. Especially Lick 5. I'll use that one a lot.

[astroman317x]

hey nice lesson...
but what does (BU) means?

[forfuturerefren]

i like lick #2 and #5, the other ones maybe i just don't have the feel for