Basics of reading music the fundamentals of music are pitch and rhythm which are placed in a grid of five lines and four spaces called staff. Guide to phrasing your blues guitar solo february 16. Blues guitar solo heatmap with pdf download youtube. Want to play cool solos but feel like those fingers just wont move that fast. This is a very hard list to make, and there is no way i can satisfy everyone.
Find the complete video with pdf and tracks at combebopbbsolos. Learn jazz guitar from dennis hodges with an intermediate guitar lesson for g blues solo. While this does the job as far as creating that bluesy sound, there is a far more effective and expressive way of playing through blues changes. This solo combines many old school blues phrases with a few modern twists to give you a challenging but melodic piece you can play by yourself on an acoustic guitar. After payment with paypal, you will be able to download the book in pdf format or receive the book by postal services if you choose this delivery mode. If you are wishing to order the pdf mp3 files please go to the correct page as this product is for the pdf file only. Solo with blues chords you now take the blues chords from this chapter and use them to create a full solo over a blues progression. In this category are many great lessons with blues licks and guitar solos you can practice. The idea is to give a set of materials that is easy to learn and still give you the ability to play the blues so that you can really hear the changes, which is a necessary skill if you want to be able to play jazz as a style. Hopefully you can put these exercises and examples to work in making and playing your own chord solos. There are so many awesome blues guitarists, that it is really hard to decide on 5 but here i go.
Jazz blues soloing with jens larsen guitar lessons. Jazz blues improvisation guitar lesson jazz blues solo. This means there is movement in both top and bottom parts of the instrument with important chord tones, predominantly 3rds and 7ths, affirming the harmonic progressions in the midregister of the instrument. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since. Blues solos for guitar by keith wyatt instructional book. This book teaches you loads of great usable licks most of which are within the grasp of the beginner. Learn how to play acoustic flatpicking blues guitar. Most effective way of soloing over blues progressions. Jazz solos for guitar by les wise instructional book. Blues guitar solo learn a long blues guitar solo full of cool blues guitar licks played by jimi hendrix, eric clapton, mark knopfler, b. Basically their thinking is ok, the key that this chord progression i am.
Easy blues volume 1 blues licks, solos improvisation. You should be able to use it as inspiration and resource to make your own chord solos but if it was played less dense it will also. While this does the job as far as creating that bluesy sound, there is a far more. Phrasing your guitar solo is one the most fun thing about playing blues or jazz guitar. The migration of southern blues players northward in the postwar years generated a motherlode of blues guitar licks.
These 5 textbookworthy solos have nothing faster than an 18th note yet they pack all the feel and soul of your favorite solos by bb king, albert king, stevie ray vaughan, and others. Its a great place to start and a feel that is guaranteed to show up at just about any open blues jam. Unavailable per item the description below is for the pdf and audio files. I have done this with the files i had in original format i did not have all of them. Learn to transpose solos to other keys and find out what works and what doesnt. Table of contents 1 all of me 2 all the things you are. If you ever feel like your solos are just a string of unconnected licks then this approach is a really good way of adding a bit of a storyline to your soloing. The file extension pdf and ranks to the documents category. This is just a simple way to know where to solo, what notes to hit, and what key to play it in. You know the 5 minor pentatonic pattern, but how you create a good guitar solo with cool and interesting licks. Telecharge gratuitement le pdf des gammes pentatoniques et des. And no solo contains anything faster than an 18th note so any intermediate blues player can be jamming along and sounding great almost immediately.
Today i demonstrate a blues solo i where i borrowed language from the following jazz. Soloing over blues progressions a more effective approach most guitarists are taught to play minor pentatonic or the flat 5 blues scale when soloing over a 1 4 5 blues progression. Jeff came up with this list of easy solos, offering a great starting point for some easier solos to tackle. Guide to phrasing your blues guitar solo february 16, 2016 tagged. Available here for free download are transcribed solos from various jazz artists in pdf format. This is why you need to tell me what your top 5 blues rock solos are right underneath the video. Minor blues tab by blues solo songsterr tabs with rhythm. Developing a good comping and chord vocabulary means knowing how to play scales in chords. Crush your guitar solos with these easy to learn blues licks.
So to summarize, a very effective method to learn jazz soloing is to think in phrases, intelligently cut and paste them into solos, use repetition and development of the phrases, understand why the phrases work, create your own by. Heres the link to the full lesson and cheat sheet download. A lick contains a few notes which belong together like words in a sentence and have special meaning or express a certain feeling. Thomas75s blues guitar solo tab in guitar pro this tab follows the guitar playing of thomas75s notefornote standard tuning sounds cool. This is one of the trickier solos that dennis teaches in this series. Learn lead guitar in the styles of albert collins, eri.
This weeks lesson is a short etude, a chord solo on an f blues. These solos are designed to help the student master various techniques such as the various minor pentatonic patterns, playing along one string, bends, slides, thirds, sixths, using chords in a solo, riff based solos and other techniques. Find the complete video with pdf and tracks at develop your bebop soloing with an. Lots of progressive lessons and blues solos with free tabs and videos. If you find yourself running up and down the frets and scales but feeling uninspired when playing blues solos, then heres just one approach to help you break out of the musical rut. This page lists 476 guitar solo transcriptions that are available somewhere on the internet. This solo gives you an example of how a simple lick or motif can be used as the basis for an entire 12 bar chorus of the blues.
The single string blues solo technique i bet you did not know about. I got a request for this lesson after having done this lesson on developing your comping ideas. Each solo will emphasize different techniques, however the framework will be the same. In most styles of music that you may be more familiar with, a guitarist typically solos within a particular key or keys. Why your guitar solos dont come close to the solos of great blues guitarists so you are starting to play your own blues guitar solos. A special thanks to jeff libman for letting me post this list he compiled. A great blues lick does not have to be terribly complicated. Your first blues solo beginners guide on how to improvise. Guide to phrasing your blues guitar solo uberchord app. E blues, position 1 12th fret easy blues guitar coach magazine more details. Here you can find more about the best web sites that offer free and paid solo transcriptions. In this lesson we will take three different approaches to playing a blues solo in the key of e. Blues 101 solos answers this question and more as you learn to build creative, memorable, and exciting blues solos in the style of your favorite guitarists.
Heres a jazz blues solo for you to learn with some typical bebop phrasing. In this lesson i will try to go through how you make lines on a bb jazz blues using the arpeggios of the chord. Marty schwartz teaches you, single string solo technique. Modern blues soloing blues guitar lesson borrowing arpeggios. When you start playing solos and thinking of the architecture of a solo, how to build up and release tension and all these things, you need a basic set of blues licks to start with. Its about the small details in the way that the blues are performed that make it personal. The solos in this book are not copies note for note of the work of famous blues guitarists.
Jul 16, 2015 if you find yourself running up and down the frets and scales but feeling uninspired when playing blues solos, then heres just one approach to help you break out of the musical rut. Thomas75s blues solo tab electric guitar solo tab pdf guitar pro. May 14, 2015 this weeks lesson is a short etude, a chord solo on an f blues. Each solo is more or less centered around a particular position. This is just one of the topics in my new modern blues soloing course, which. Thus it will help you to develop a feel for the blues and that is the key for good playing. Just knowing the various scales is not enough because unless you make them connect to the actual chords being played, they can have very little meaning or impact. Outstanding blues and jazz flute solos pdf file outstanding blues and jazz flute solos pdf file sku. Examine the solo concepts of the blues masters in this unique bookcd package.
Here is a very outside and modern sounding jazz blues solo. If you are looking for a specific solo that you cant find here or in these other sites,please do not ask me if i know where you can find it,because i. Jazz guitarists practice their scales in chords so they have them ready for solo jazz guitar arrangements. The videos give me new ways to think about what i do and how i do it, thanks. Minor blues guitar tab by blues solo with free online tab player. Solo guitar blues licks and solos 12bar blues guitar. Ive also made tabs of the whole chorus of jazz blues solo and a pdf with all the scales we need for this jazz blues guitar solo lesson. In this post, im going to list my top 5 solos to learn the blues.
Use the download button below or simple online reader. But soon you start comparing yourself to other guitarists and sooner or later your progress comes to a halt and you find. Hound dogelvis presley with scotty moore no particular place to gochuck berry the sunshine of your lovecream l. Here are 50 easy jazz solo recommendations from chicagophoenix guitarist jeff libman. As always you can download a pdf of the examples here for later study. I have been a blues writer for a long time and voicing the strings is always the carrot on the stick. Here is a very outside and modern sounding jazzblues solo. The guitarist joe pass is famous for this technique.