Stuart Bull Blues Licks Volume 1

Welcome to Stuart Bull’s The Blues: Volume 1 This complete Blues guitar lesson course is designed to provide you with great licks to learn play and enjoy. Blues can often be confined to a small number of popular keys which can sometimes overlook the use of open strings. These open strings in the lesser used keys can help create fresh and interesting sounds as well as opportunities for Blues compositions not always heard in mainstream blues songs and instrumentals. The idea here is to create a learning tool that not only increases your Blues playing vocabulary but also helps improve fretboard knowledge and awareness.

The system works like this: In Volume 1 the first six keys chromatically from A to D (Volume 2 features the remaining six keys chromatically from D# to G#) are used here and the five blues scale positions are utilised in each key. One lick per position is provided and taught for each key giving you five licks per key and a total of thirty licks in all. Each lick is also analysed to give you an insight into how these licks are created and used. Music and tablature is also available for all thirty licks. One backing track per key is included to jam along to and explore. Each lick is visually played to the track to provide a point of reference as to how the lick sounds in context. This guitar lesson course will extend your fretboard knowledge as well as providing fresh sounds and insights into the always expanding musical genre simply called “The Blues.” Enjoy!