Blues Lead Guitar Technique

Progressive blues guitar techniques emphasized, with focus on mastering lead playing through rhythmic control and nuanced expression.

Introduces reading fretboard diagrams and understanding lead guitar patterns for various licks.

Tablature notation is introduced, covering how numbers signify fret positions and representing guitar fretboard notes.

Explains various tablature symbols for advanced guitar techniques, including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, release bends, and vibrato.

Covers the Blues scale concept, including its formation by adding a flat fifth note to the minor pentatonic scale.

Blues scales and lead guitar techniques are covered through the application of 9 fundamental licks.

Develops skills to combine blues licks into a full 12-bar solo, emphasizing timing and feel.

The E Blues Scale's higher version is covered, along with advanced guitar techniques like hammer-ons, pull-offs, and double stops.

Trill techniques for adding drama and sustaining notes in guitar playing are covered.

Introduces the D Blues scale, a foundational element in blues lead guitar.

The C blues scale features the minor pentatonic pattern with an added flat fifth note.

B.B. King's rake technique for adding expression and dynamics to notes is covered.

Extensive raking techniques and advanced solo methods are covered.

The A blues scale is introduced, featuring the minor pentatonic A form with added flat fifth notes.

Introduces the A form blues scale and its application to soloing.

The G Form and its applications are covered, including uses in blues scales and double-stops.

Covers the basics of playing a G form solo, including fingerings and techniques for execution.

Combines five Blues scale forms to create a 12-bar solo.

Notation skills enhance musicality, distinguishing skilled musicians from others.

Note values and rests are introduced, covering their meanings and applications to enhance musical proficiency.

Modifies note values and durations using dotted notes.

Eighth-note triplets and swing patterns inform the iconic blues shuffle rhythm.

Graced with expressive nuances, this topic delves into applying subtle blues phrasing through precise placement of grace notes.

Improvising over Blues progressions develops skills in mastering set rhythms and timing.

Combines two or three beats to create a driving rhythm through subtle variations in timing.

Introduces fundamental concepts of rhythmic pattern development and improvisational techniques for enhanced musical expression and control.

Introduces techniques for creating syncopated rhythms and developing musical phrases through mastering ties.

Sustain notes across bar lines and create syncopated rhythmic phrasing in the Blues style.

Covers various triplet forms and their rhythmic applications in different contexts.

Triplets, rests, and note/rest combinations are used to create rhythmic patterns using fundamental techniques.

Introduces techniques for developing improvisational themes, focusing on rhythmic and melodic foundations.

Introduces a single basic idea for a 12-bar blues solo in the key of G with subtle variations.

Basic chord and arpeggio construction principles for Blues lead guitar are introduced, covering root notes, intervals, and fingerings.

The structure of chords originates from the Major scale.

Arpeggios are played by breaking down chords into individual notes, with focus on various positions along the guitar neck.

Introduces seven arpeggio patterns, including D, C, A, and G seventh forms.

Seventh arpeggios combined with minor pentatonic scale create a 12-bar blues riff, adaptable for different musical forms.

Arpeggios and their applications in guitar playing are covered.

Recognizes and counts sixteenth notes in Rhythm and Blues, Funk, and Rock music styles.

Set and play rhythmic patterns, including 4-bar phrases, 2-bar solos, and 12-bar improvisations.

Introduces fundamental picking techniques for eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes.

The G major pentatonic scale is introduced, covering its fingering and comparing it to its relative minor scale.

Introduces the various forms of major pentatonic scales, such as D, C, A, and High G, along with examples in the key of G.

Versatile guitar licks for playing across the fretboard.

Covers techniques for combining scales in diagonal patterns on the fretboard, featuring two sliding patterns and their practical applications.

Introduces the construction of a 12-bar blues solo using the major pentatonic scale.

Minor thirds are added to major pentatonic scales to create a distinctive blues tone.

Harmony and melody techniques introduced, covering major and minor sound combinations.

Covers fundamental concepts and skills for constructing a 12-bar blues solo with a swing rhythm.

Subdivides beats into 16th notes and triplets for reading and understanding slow blues tunes with complex rhythms.

Techniques for achieving rapid picking effects on a single note or chord are covered.

Introduces a 12-bar slow blues solo applying techniques covered in the book.

Scales and arpeggios covered include minor pentatonic, blues, and major pentatonic, with focus on dominant seventh.