Blues Licks for Absolute Beginners

Beginning guitarists will benefit from these easy-to-absorb lessons designed to teach the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Essential lead guitar techniques are also covered including string bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, sliding and vibrato, which can be useful in many styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Other topics covered include: the blues scale * the major and minor pentatonic scales * outlining the chords * double stops * phrasing * relative scales * turnaround licks * extended pentatonics * 12-bar blues progressions * blues phrasing * and more.