Slammer - Blues SI Lesson

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Slammer

Introduction

Hello everyone- I am Slammer.

Making a Asping Instructor Lesson is something I have always wanted to do, sorry I don't have a Video Camera. But this is probably the only chance I'll get to make one, so it's for Fun!!

I live in Miami, Florida and I am 18 years old.

My favorite guitarists are Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Johnson.

When I am not practicing I like to watch Baseball and Record Demos and Songs for fun!

I hope to be able to show you in this lesson some of the Blues Licks I use alot in my playing, and maybe you'll get some ideas to apply in Your playing!
Since this was a pretty long song I will put a few of the licks.

First off I'd like to talk a little bit about the Blues.
In my opinion the most important thing about playing the blues -besides bending- is Vibrato! It doesn't matter if you are the slowest guitar player around, If you have good vibrato, you can be a good blues player!

Scales

This song is in the key of G minor.

I use the G Minor Pentatonic and Blues scale alot in these licks.

G Minor Pentatonic

E---------------------------3-6-3---------------------------
B-----------------------3-6-------6-3----------------------
G-------------------3-5----------------5-3-----------------
D---------------3-5-------------------------5-3------------
A-----------3-5----------------------------------5-3--------
E-------3-6-------------------------------------------6-3---

G Minor Blues Scale

E--------------------------------3-6-3----------------------------------
B--------------------------3-6---------6-3----------------------------
G-------------------3-5-6------------------6-5-3---------------------
D-----------------3-5------------------------------5-3----------------
A-----------3-4-5---------------------------------------5-4-3---------
E-------3-6------------------------------------------------------6-3---

Licks

Lick 1

This is the intro lick to the song.

Now for the first bend, you have to bend the 2nd string on the 6th fret up one step, and hold it there untill you release it.

E --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
B ----6b8br6Fran-----3--------------------------------------------------------
G ------------------------------5b------3---------3---5b--3--------------------
D ---------------------------------------------5-------------------5~~---------
A --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
E --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lick 1: Lick 1

Lick 2

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------6---6---6---6---6---6--6--6----
|-----------------3~~---------------------------3--5--3--5/7----7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--
|-------5-3-5----------5p3------3h5~~---5-------------------------------------------------------
|------------------------------5---------------------------------------------------------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

|-------------------------------6--8--8b10br8--6--8--6h8p6------------------------------------
|-----8-8-8~~--8p6h8---8--------------------------------------8--8~~-------------------------
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------6--------------------
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------7/5--3----------
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5-3h5~-
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lick 2: lick_2.mp3 ( 183.72K )

So when you put them together here is what you get: licks_1_2.mp3 ( 273.51K )

Lick 3

For this these next licks we are going to move down an octave higher, to play the G minor Pentatonic/Blues scale Licks on the 15-18 frets.

For this Next Lick we need to use a lot of vibrato for that "bluesy feel"

E---------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------------------------------
G------------15-17br-15----------------------15~~--------
D-----/17------------------17~~--17-17--------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

Lick 3: lick_3.mp3 ( 53.47K )

Lick 4

E-------------------------------------------------------------------------
B---------------------------------------18~-18~-18~-18~-18--------
G--------------------------15-17-15---19~-19~-19~-19~--19--19--
D------15-17-17~~--17------------------------------------------------
A---17-------------------------------------------------------------------
E-------------------------------------------------------------------------

E-----------------------------18b---------------------------------------
B-----18-20-20-20-20-20--------20-20-------------------------------
G------------------------------------------------------------------------
D------------------------------------------------------------------------
A------------------------------------------------------------------------
E------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lick 4: lick_4.mp3 ( 141.22K )