Blues guitar exercises: speed, accuracy and lick memorization for beginners

1. Welcome: Like to play both. Do you want to develop your speed and occurrence on instrument? So course is going to be great for you. I'm going to introduce to you several type of tricks that you can play using blue pentatonic scales. Yes, I'm going to show you all the tricks, all the step by step, and the most important thing, practice together. We're going to play all the leaks in different speeds, and you can check the complimentary material with the PDF file and all the leaks played on a screen. This course is a great opportunity to develop speed accuracy, and memorize a few guitar legs to play blues and play solos. Ready? So let's go. Oh 2. Bends and Pull Off: I'm to play some blues exercise to gain speed curs on the instruments. This lesson is 100% practicos tuna guitar. Let's play together. I'm going to start the exercise slowly. Am I going to talk about hole step ban, half step ban, slides, hammer on, pull off, or any kind of techniques that you're going to find in blues music? Let's go. This first exercise, we are going to brack in the shape one. And we're going to play the blue right here in the notes, going to e. So it's a whole step blue. Sorry, a hole step band. It's important to sound correctly. From this, we're going to put this. It's your reference notes. So let's listen to the correct piece of this band. As you can see, both of them sound the same. If I play wrong, I'm going to sound like this. Okay, so be careful with the pitch of your band, right? Let's go. Let's start slowly. T, T. 41. T. T This is the first exercise in 70. BPN. Let's gain a little bit of speed. The most important thing is play all this exercise correctly in pits with every single node in tempo. Then you're going to put more speed, raise your BPM to develop the speed cur that is necessary to play blue. Let's go to the second level. Let's play eight. One, two, three, four. A Ta Fa fair. F six. Very cov, isn't it, it's a little bit hard to play, but be careful. You need to tune this band correctly. You can coach 90 100 any kind of PPM you want, but start slowly gain speed. In this next exercise, instead of one hole state band, it's going to be Halfte band. So this going to be short. The bluest is so important and blues music. So train here to understand and recognize the difference between one holes statep band. Then a step band. The difference between the sound. And then we are going to play this band going down like the regular notes, and then we play five that is the C note. We are going to the st minor pentatonic in A. Let's go, three, four. It's very easy to recognize the sounds like if you were playing like this. Sounds the same, right? But with bands. Let's gain speed. Let's go to 80. One, two, three, four. T tf56 Same thing. You can go to 90, 100. So it's a great exercise to bud muscles and bx bands. Now, time to pull off. Pull off is when you play the note like eight and five on a string number two, you play the note. Connect the note number eight to the note number five, the opposite of Hamer. And this pull off, it's very common in blues. We're going to play like this. And you can play with finger number four and one or a tree and one. You can find these in red Has peppers, metallic, every kind of rock, blues bin. You can find this technique. So it's a very nice technique. So let's start slowly. We're going to i the first shape of A Mor pentatonic. And be careful with these notes. You need to play this p off correctly. Okay like this. You need to listen both notes, the two notes. And then you connect to this note number seven, storing Number three. Let's start slowly. One, two, three, four. 56 You're nice, isn't it? So let's gain speed. Let's go to 80. One, two, three, four. T four Let's gain more speed. Let's go to 90. Now, start to get difficult. Okay? That's why it's so important to px and play with me. Step by step. One, two, three, four. T. T. Four. 56. Very nice, isn't it? Let's go to the next level. 100, two, three, four, T. T. 456. Very good. Just heads up. You just need to pick one on a string number two, okay? So one connect the note number seven on the string number three. You pick one time on a string number two, and one time on a string number t like this. Look to my right hand. On one. I play. I pick just one in its string. Let's go to the second pull off exercise. In this case, I'm going to connect pentatonic. So I'm going to play all the pull off on the string number two in three connecting all the pentatonics. So the first pattern is going to sound like this. Second pattern is like this. So I'm going to change my pattern. So I'm going to use the notes of the minor pentatonic. Pattern number three is like this. So we're gonna play like this. Pattern number four? Play like this. Pattern umber five. I play like this. And then I come back to Pattern number one another active. We're going to connect to the pentatonic minor scheme. This is a great exercise to gain speed. Develop occurrence when you change the pentatonic shape. And of course, like all the other exercise, you can use this leak on your improvisation. Let's go. One, two, three, four. Come back. Second pattern. Pat number three, four, five, we'll come back to one. Very nice, isn't it? This is easy because we are in set. If you start to gain speed, it's going to be more complicated, but great for develop speed in curse. Let's go. Let's go to 80. I'm going to play twice once and again. One, two, three, four, Pattern number one, two, 345. Come back to one. Opt T. T45. Pattern number one. Let's go to Pat to the same exercise, but the speed of nine, it's going to be a little bit difficult. T T, four Pat number one. T. T. Four. Five. One Otis. T. T. Four, five. One. Just a heads up, guys, it's important to understand the concept of this exercise of all the exercise. And make sure you understand the concept, the notes and see the pentatonic hind. Because you're going to use this type of approach to create your own blues, your own music, your own solos, right? Let's go to 101, two, three, four. T Be careful. I play one note wrong, as you can see, I think with here. Here, I play. Be careful. If you start again speed, it's going to be easy to make these mistakes. Let's play once again in 100, one, two, three, four. Here's the same thing you just pick on in it strength stream. Number two. 3. Hammer On and Slides: Go to the next exercise. In this case, we have hammer on, the opposite of p off. So instead of play, the three or finger number four, one, we're going to play the opposite. Four. In this case, we're going to use the first pair of pentatonic scale paga blues. And you're going to stop in the blue notes. Gonna sound very spicy. One, two, three, four. This riff is very nice, and you can use all of your improvisations. Let's get speed. Let's go to 81, two, three, four. As you can see, we need to build this muscle. It's like going to the gym and getting strong. Every single day, you need to prat this exercise. Start gain speed, start slowly, starting 70 and going. Always gain more speed, going to eight, nine, 100 and etcetera. Let's keep playing. Let's go to the next exercise. In this case, I have another hammer on. This case we have like this. So I use a kind of double stop right. So this blue slow, short, D. Go half step with a slide. So three times. And then I youse in this last part of my pentatonic blue scale. So in this case, I play five, 757. Okay. Play hammer on very precisely. Let's go. Let's play together. Start with 70. One, two, three, four. Let's gasp. Let's go to 80, one, two, three, four. Si be used to play a lot like this. So use this A lot in blues, and you're gonna sound like a real blue M. Let's go to 92, three, four. This sounds very, very nice. Let's go to the next exercise. In this next exercise, we're going to brack slide. So we're going to play a very nice lin right here. As you can see, I just pick one on string number three and I play 77 pi pull off two Fret number five. Then I play another pull off 75. But this time, I'm going to pick one more time in seven. Right? Can I play 745. Seven once again. I play and my Lick. Let's start slowly. Nick is a little bit complicated, but be careful because you need to play this with one single pick on string number three. So And then you pick once again. Okay. Be careful about this part. One, two, three, four. As Kes sounds very blue, very nice, just because we use this. Blue note right here. Play together? One, two, three, four. Let's see? Start to get difficult. Let's go to nine. 1234. Okay, let's go to the next exercise, go. So play this liide, and play both notes. So string number two. It is very similar to our last exercise, but in this case, we're going to double the string. All right. Let's go. Let's start slowly. One, two, three, four. Now let's get speed. Let's go to read. One, two, three, four. Four. Next exercise, we are going to play Band Z off. Right. So let's start slowly. One, two, three, four. As you can see, I use my fier number one and three. Okay, sometimes fier number three, but you can play with your 43 as well. Right? Let's try in a different speed. I'm going to use four. One, two, three, four. Just heads up, guys, be careful with this band. It's a one whole step band. Make sure your strings are new is going to be very easy and hard to play if your strings are a little bit ty. 4. The Guitar Jedi Workout for Speed and Accuracy: To the next exercise. In this case, we're going to have one whole step band, half step band and pots. Yes, it's a. It's going to play in the first pattern. Of course, we are just keeping the first pattern to make easier for you. But the most important thing of this lesson is brag gains, p to curacy, and exercise, all the tricks. Of course, understand all this concept. But let's keep going and this leak is going to sound like this. Very nice, isn't it? So we have a half step band right here. Set of play with line. Play with the band. You can use your finger number to to help you walk with this band. Okay? So two and three, two play the band going. Let's go together. Let's start slowly. One, two, three, four. Alright, let's go to 80. One, two, three, four. It's a very complete lake. Of course, you can use on your proposics as well. It's important that you cop this type of lake. Understand the most important part, the structure of the lake, change for the sound. Giant to play. In this next example, we're going to have slide band. So it's going to sound like this. As you can see, I have a huge slide. In another little bit bigger, right? I connect the Patron number two to the Patron number one of Pentatonic minor scale. In then I have one whole step b step in A because the key of our exercise. Let's go together. Let's start slowly. One, two, three, four. Oh Oh Oh I love this lik, especially because we connect shape number one with shape number 234. A And our next exercise. Could you have hammer ons pus, everything together in one lick. In this case, we're going to use the first pattern and the pattern number five. So it's going to sound like this. Very coo, isn't it? Let's play once again. So as you can see a plate is connecting all the notes. So we're going to connect with Hammer on pull of five notes. Be careful because this is a little bit difficult. And it's a great exercise to pre this skills. So plate just one connect frat number two, right? And the annual plate is kind of bus notes fifth the minor seventh. And please let the notes ringing. Sounds better. You're gonna have this Minor interval. That sounds a little bit decent, a little bit spicy. Let's go. One, two, three, four. Let's play fast A 34. 91, two, three, go. Hundred Let's f 100. This leak is a little bit difficult, but I think it's worth if we practice step by step. All of this, this plane, you are going to develop your speed in a curs on instrument. So let's go. One, two, three, four. I hope you enjoyed this lesson. Bye bye. 5. The end: The last lesson of our course, I hope you enjoy. And please preg with me, come back to the top of the course and play all the leaks over and over again. This type of thing you help Tribute speed in a curson instrument, and of course, memorize several nice tricks and licks to play in your own blusters. Please take a look on my profile on the platform. I have several nice course for you to help you to go to the next level. Okay. Thank you so much. My name is Gib Flix and see you in my next course.