Blues Intro Lick - How To Play Classic Blues Intro Lick In Any Key

Blues Intro Lick - How To Play Classic Blues Guitar Intro Lick In Any Key
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After watching this video you'll know a classic blues guitar intro lick to use for almost any blues guitar tune. Perfect introduction to a 12 bar blues, so learn to play this lick and say goodbye to those 'sloppy' beginnings to blues jams! I'll also show you how to play this intro lick in any key so you'll never be stuck for how to start a blues again.

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Blues Intro Lick - How to Play Classic Blues Intro Lick In Any Key

Here's a breakdown of what you'll learn in this blues guitar lesson:

0:11 Demonstration of the blues intro lick you'll be able to play at the end of this lesson. Bet you've heard something like this lick before on some of your favourite blues recordings!

0:30 Blues intro lick - slow demonstration. I'm going to teach you this lick in the key of G. So we'd commonly use it as an introduction to a 12 bar blues in G.

1:02 Step by step breakdown of the blues lick including guitar TAB and picking options. I'm going to demonstrate it on electric guitar but it also works great in acoustic blues styles (demo later...)

4:29 Now that you know how to play the blues intro have a listen to how it also works on acoustic guitar.

4:40 How to connect the intro lick onto a 12 bar blues. This is imprtant because if you get it wrong it won't lead smoothly into your 12 bar blues - and this is the whole point of an intro! Make sure you get this bit right whatever you do.

5:25 How to use this lick as in intro for a blues in any key. Here I'll show you a simple and easy way to figure out where to start your intro lick so you can use it in other keys as well. You can use your E shape barre chord to figure it out - see demo in video!

7:14 Blues Intro Bonus tip! You can use a little vibrato on the intro lick to give it a bluesy 'Red House' effect. It also sounds a bit like it's beeing played with a slide. You don't have to use this, but sometimes you might find it useful to know.

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