Blues Improvisation Lesson

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- Kristofer Dahl13th May 2008
  Fantastic lesson and really cool blues improvisation - love it Nick!
- berko13th May 2008
  Oh, i first wanted to bookmark it, but then i realised this is not a note-for-note lesson, and i ended up jamming with these cool licks!!
  
  So much thanks Nick!! I love your tied-note scale tables as well.
- DeepRoots13th May 2008
  Amazing lesson Nick- your lessons are fantastic!
- Nick Kellie13th May 2008
  glad you liked it!
- Marcus Siepen13th May 2008
  Great Lesson Nick, I loved the "some hours later" thing
- Muris Varajic13th May 2008
  Brilliant piece of impro!!!
- Danilo Capezzuto13th May 2008
  Nice lesson and nice impro. Keep on Nick!
- Bogdan Radovic13th May 2008
  Great blues lesson Nick!
- Joe Kataldo13th May 2008
  Great Job Man!
- Jerry Arcidiacono13th May 2008
  Great impro Nick
- OrganisedConfusion13th May 2008
  Your lessons are amazing Nick. Really helpful and more structured especially for instructional purposes so it isn't about playing a solo or passage it is about learning licks and more importantly understanding why they work and how to come up with your own improvisations. This is what I really need to work on. Great lesson as always.
- botoxfox13th May 2008
  Nice lesson.
- at lights end13th May 2008
  awesome
- Siggum13th May 2008
  great lesson!
- Capt.Z13th May 2008
  Sweet lesson!
- Matt_0013th May 2008
  Very Nice....!!!
- Alex8713th May 2008
  Sweet blues Nick
- Sergio Dorado13th May 2008
  It´s really very good solo!
- Martin la guitarra13th May 2008
  Sweet! thx
- Alejandro Pinero13th May 2008
  Cool blues impro!!!!
  Thank for this lesson
- Nick Kellie13th May 2008
  thanks guys - nice to know you like it.
- Pi3813th May 2008
  Funny ending. Cool lesson!
- ItsMe13th May 2008
  Thats so awesome. Larry C must be jealous of you.
- Dejan Farkas13th May 2008
  Cool blues
  
  Some hours later
- Harris Sopovic13th May 2008
  Nice licks. Really nice tone
- Gabriel Leopardi13th May 2008
  Great improvisation and lesson! Well done Nick!
- Carlos Carrillo13th May 2008
  nice improvisation nick!!!
- Hisham Al-Sanea13th May 2008
  nice improvising Nick...good work
- Ivan Milenkovic13th May 2008
  Excellent tone and control Nick. Well done
- mattacuk14th May 2008
  Your a REALLY professional act Nick! I love your lessons
- Nemanja Filipovic14th May 2008
  Beautiful lesson Nick.
- Juan M. Valero14th May 2008
  nice impro !!
- David Wallimann14th May 2008
  Very interesting lesson Nick, I love your talking video. Funny main vid too. :-)
- Daniel Robinson14th May 2008
  Excellent lesson Nick,
  
  I know this an area i am not real comfortable with you give a good insight into comping over a chord change rather then the idea of playing 1 key over another.
  
  It adds so much more depth to your playing doing this thanks!
  
  Daniel
- kyldeee14th May 2008
  Very nice lesson
- Nick32514th May 2008
  good job nick
- Pablo Vazquez15th May 2008
  Nice lesson!!! REally cool!
- Nick Kellie15th May 2008
  thanks chaps!
- JuanMV19th May 2008
  This was fantastic Nick! Keep them coming!

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- Tags: Blues, Blues solo, Improvisation, Blues improvisation, Licks
OK folks here we are with part 2 of my blues lessons. Last lesson (Blues Chord Soloing) we focus on chords and how to build them within a blues - now we are looking at soloing.

The intention with this lesson is not for you to learn my solo - but to learn a series of licks which you can incorporate into your own improvisational arsenal. My solo was improvised so you need to know that if I did 20 takes, they would all be different. This is because I am improvising - in order to improvise you not only need to know the scales (words), but you also need some licks (sentences).

Also I recommend that you learn the caged system as it helps to tie in any licks or scales with a chord shape. This is very useful when it comes to transposing a lick. This way you can learn 1 lick and be able to transpose it to any key. If you are unsure of the CAGED system then I implore you to delve into it.

This lesson all the content is really on the other pages. Be sure to learn the various scales and be able to visually tie in the lick with the scale.

Hope you enjoy it and see you soon!
Nick
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