This Cliché Blues Lick Is Amazing... Here’s Why

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TIMESTAMPS ⏱️

0:00 Intro solo
0:31 The lick
1:11 Why it sounds good over the I chord
2:36 Relating to the minor pentatonic scale
3:45 Learn more about guitar playing
4:07 How I built my solo using this one lick
5:13 Moving to the IV chord
7:20 What I play over the IV chord
8:20 Get my tone for free
10:07 How to navigate the turnaround

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Blues is a genre that is riddled with clichés but is that a bad thing? For guitar improvisation I'd say no, it's actually great and for guitar players especially.

Many guitar players struggle with the problem of feeling like they've run out of licks when playing solos and the solution isn't always to just learn more licks...

What you can also do is look at what's currently in your improvisational vocabulary and see how much mileage you can get out of the licks that are already there.

In this blues guitar lesson I show you a prime example of how you can take just one cliché blues guitar lick and literally build an entire guitar solo around it.