Assignment 3: Bending Blues Lick Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

Hey GMC!

Today, I shall present you with a bluesy bending lick which I came up with! Check it out below:



This lick was meant to be used as conclusion over a 6/8 bluesy riff and I used the E minor pentatonic scale colored with a lot of bends to make it more expressive.

Let's take a look at the details:

Scale: E minor pentatonic



Tab: (also check out the attached GP file)

     E    E   E   E    E   E      Q       E    Q.         
E||--14b--14--12-------12------|-------------------------||
B||---------------15b------12--|---------------15b~------||
G||----------------------------|--14br----12b------------||
D||----------------------------|-------------------------||
A||----------------------------|-------------------------||
E||----------------------------|-------------------------||

Chords used: I tuned the guitar in Drop D so I could play the riff by using simpler position shifts so, here are the chords: E5 G5 A5 and D5
The lick is accentuated by the rhythm guitar playing the D5 chord and concluding on the E5, before the riff repeats itself - check out the track where I played the lick

Benefits:

- being able to use this lick as a conclusion over the given riff
- gaining more control over your bending mechanics
- analyzing the bending possibilities in the pentatonic context

Assignments:

1) Record the lick over the provided backing track as many times in a row as the backing allows, after you have listened to the track which I recorded (attached below)

2) For a first improvising task - try and record the lick over the given backing track, by playing it at the beginning not at the end as I did it. So start the lick in the first bar on the first beat! It should provide different results

Deadline: 26th of January

Any other ideas which you might come up with are always welcome, so go ahead and explore as much as you'd like!

Looking forward for your takes

Cosmin

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This post has been edited by Cosmin Lupu: Jan 23 2012, 12:09 PM