About this Jam Track:
G blues scales will help you create great sounding blues licks and guitar solos over this major blues guitar backing track. Because this 12 bar blues centres around dominant 7 chords, the best scale choices are major blues and pentatonic scales for each chord in the progression - G7, C 7 and D7.
Track details:
- Key: G
- Tempo: Slow
- Suggested Scales: Blues Scale, Major Blues Scale, Pentatonic
Blues Licks for Absolute Beginners
This superb how to play easy blues guitar licks DVD includes a selection of easy blues guitar lessons that are designed to teach the beginner guitarist some of the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Over the course of this DVD you will learn how to play some essential easy blues lead guitar techniques such as string bending, hammer ons and pull offs, sliding, and vibrato that can also be used in other styles of guitar playing from how to play jazz, rock and metal lead guitar. This guitar lesson DVD contains essential beginner blues guitar techniques including: • Essential beginner blues guitar techniques • How to play the blues scale • The major and minor pentatonic scales • Outlining the chords when playing blues guitar solos • How to play double stops • Relative scales • Turnaround guitar licks • String bending • Vibrato • Hammer-ons and Pull-offs • Extended pentatonic scales • 12 bar blues guitar progressions • Blues guitar phrasing. Danny Gill is a former pupil of Joe Satriani, and co-author of the Musicians Institute Rock Lead Guitar series. His songs have appeared on numerous TV shows including 'The Osbournes' as well as motion picture soundtracks such as 'Insomnia' and 'Under Siege'.
