Blues guitar for advanced players

1. Welcome: Hello, my name is Giro Felix Cent Day. I'm here to talk about my new chorse, My advanced blues. Chorse, Yes. I'm going to teach you La tricks. You play the rhythm part and the solo. Parting Blues Very. When you talk about triads, pentatonic minor scale with the blues notes, the measure six note, that sounds really cool and fans when improvising blues and very nice tricks about harmony, especially when we play with 13 chords and chord. So this blues is going to be really amazing. You're going to find complimentary materials, you have to out in all my tricks. So are you ready? Let's tune the guitar and play a little bit of blues. Let's go an. 2. Blues cliché every musician should be familiar with: Talk a little bit about the blues, accent, the things that you're going to find in blues in harmony. In the improvisation part, most of the case you use 12 bar blues, you just play 12 bars following pattern. Usually is 14.5 come back, okay? It's off loop. This is very common in blues. But you have this loop that you can see in the image we can call as fast change blues. Just because in the board number two, you go to number four, in this case the, and you have the slow change blues as well. So instead of changing the second bar, you just keep playing the roots note in this case, all right? But you have other types of blues with 251, with the contraint accents. And several type of blues that it's important to memorize. Besides that, we have the turnaround, that is a knaleak. Then we play in the end of the blues, usually in bar number 11.12 it's something like this, it's a very nice turnaround. You can change and play guitar as well instead of the matar. Usually we play in the end of the blues. In the standard blues is very common to repeat the bars number 91,011.12 When you finish the blues, instead of playing, let's say we are in a finishing this repeat and playing the turnaround to finish the song. Okay, this is another blues accent that you're going to find. Nor fin is important to talk about, the blue Caos. Usually we use pentatonic minor cao or pentatonic. Bluekaokam. Add some spice notes. Major six example. So instead of playing just the pentatonic blues or the minor pentatonic, we add this kind of new blue notes that the major six sounds really nice as well. It's important to remember that the blues note is sharp four, so you take the note number four. In this case we are in a take the note number four and had a sharp right here. This sharp, it's going to be your blues notes here. And you can play in Sound Blues, any kind of guitar shape. Okay, so let's take this guitar shape number 44. No, sorry, five, right here we are in a seven. Okay? So number five is going to be right here. The last guitar shape. You can find this sharp right here. Really cool, isn't it? When we add this blues note. Okay, Son Laura of blues, please do not stop in the blues note. Sound a little bit spicy, right? Sounds really weird. You can stop. But if you want some more traditional, okay, with less tension, less spicy, do not stop. You just pass through. So bar, isn't it? Stick with the short cut. Another trick I like to talk is the 55 in free. This kind of trick is really nice and Sound really buy when you play a leak. Or if you play, in this case in blues, you can play this perfect fifth. You can play this flat five before the sounds really buy. And the same thing with flat five. Sorry, flat trees, major trees. C sharp sounds really cool as well. And of course you can mix everything. Sound blues most of the Ks, okay? 9% of the S, we play a major part with a minor Sp improvise. Use a minor pentatonic scape. It's weird, isn't it? But this is the blues accent, okay? So use a major par with a minor pentatonic. This kind of flat three, major three sounds pretty cool Blues. Sometimes we play 12 by eight, instead of 44, we play 128. And if we compare the Adm part in rock and roll rehab, this 1,234.1 to two eighth notes, right? In blues we have a K two notes, but it's more eighth notes with a dot and 16th note like this one. And so rock and roll sounds like this one, and blues sound like this one. And with this kind of swing, it's really important to remember this when you play blues. Okay, but let's get started. Let's talk about a lot of harmony and impresition steps in this course. Let's go. 3. Enhance your blues harmony with walking bass, 9th, and 13th chords: Some fancy, sophisticated horn, even jazz, you can create your harmony, your 12 bar blues and add some kind of ninth fine in 30 sounds really cool. So let's take a regular blues, Seven blues, okay? Instead of playing just the seventh quarter, the regular approach, okay? We're going to add this type of chords. In the first one I'm going to add, going to play just the record seven, but when I go I'm going to use the ninth note. Okay, fine. Very nice chords. It's easy to play. You just need to remove your pink finger and transform this finger number one as a board chord to play the flat nine notes. Check this out. Really cool, isn't it? As you can see, I play this 7979 and you can apply this technique as well. Sounds cool. If you prefer, you can use the Hendrix score in the short nine, instead of playing the regular nine, that is your pink number seven, you can play right here. Number eight, Very cool, isn't it? So you can play this ending turnaround and sounds really fancy. Another thing that is very nice is the 13th. You have measure 13th flat 13. Sounds really cool as well. Let's try. Oh, I play wrong and, but I think you understand the idea, right? This is the idea. You play this 13th, okay, with your pink finger right here. And you can change it to flattered. As you can see, it sounds really fancy. But it's important to add the walking base to connect everything. In this case, I play this kind of when I teach blues in or styles, I prefer that you memorize not the notes but the eusurvs. This case instead of thinking about and think about birth fifth seven notes, if you think about that. If you memorize your steps like this going to help you to change the key really fast because you just need to remember the music intervals and transpose to the other curse. So think about the music intervals. Five flat 71. All right, this is my base. As you can see right here, I play this C sharp D. This is a very common pat. Let's talk about this. When you are in, let's say in, and you want to go too, you have two options. That's going to sound very nice and it's very easy to remember. You can play notes ahead, or one note before we can play this measure seven, C sharp. Or you can play flap, let's try both ways. Measure seven, really as you can see, I use when I come back to as well. You can use this approach going to go into A or any kind of core you want. Let's try the other approach. Flat instead of measure seven Sounds really cool. As well. As you can see when I play this D, please. You can play this type of thing. Sounds a little bit outside chromatic, but it really works. Your blue is going to sound very jazz infancy. You just play a chord following the bade heading or going down to you, okay? You can play with a measure step as well as you can see sounds really cool. And use this to improve your blues, improve your rhythm session, and your harmony, okay? You can sound much better. Remember, you can add 13, 13, 13, the regular blues, the seven, okay? You can use this as well. You can use the ninth, short nine or flat nine, right? And use the walking base. You have the option to use this five flat 71 or the kind of trick that we play using one had 14 major seven flat flat, in this case flat, okay? And of course, thinking about this idea using one head up before and change to chord. So really cool, isn't it? 4. Knowing this would have made everything easier: I've been playing guitar. About what? Since 2005, 2004? I can't remember. It's long, long time ago. I need to give a few tricks and advice. First things, it's really hard to master any kind of music style takes time and you need to listen blues, okay? Or if you are practicing jazz, listen jazz, play all exercise. Watching re, watch all the lessons about this style over and over again, okay? Takes time. Be patient. The second thing is when you are improvising in blues, don't worry. Memorize, not even blues, but in any kind of style. Don't worry. And memorize all the guitar shapes in all parts of the fret board. This takes times and it's very difficult. One thing is memorize all the guitar shapes. Every part of the fretboard is really good, very nice. But the other thing is playing blues, okay? To play blues, you just need 5 minutes talk scale, right? Or if you prefer, add the blues notes of six notes and you have the six notes in just one guitar shape. The idea is learn to play blues. Don't worry about memorize all the guitar shapes in all the parts of a flat board. Okay, This takes time and it's very difficult. All right. Focus your attention, your time, your effort. Learn the scales. Learning shape, learn really well. Master the one te, guitar shapes. And of course, learning all the tricks, the tricks with flat five, flat three trick with musk intervals of relate to blues. Okay? I need to give you this advice because I spend too much time memorize all guitar shapes in any kind of position on the guitar. All right? Be careful about that. We'll be really good if you memorize. But the first step is learn. Plus another trick that is very nice is add the major six on your plane. You're going to sound a little bit more rock and roll, or how can I say this more rockabilly? With more rockabilly, it's really nice. Check this out. We have the York, right? If you think about the measure six, you're going to find this sharp right here. Frat number four or frat number seven. And you can mix these two nodes with your pentatonic. Yes. So take a look. Really nice, isn't it? As you can see, I use a lot my F sharp. The next exercise will be taking all the guitar shapes. Let's stick with eight, okay? Take all the guitar shapes that you know. The first one probably, second one right there as well, and try to find is F sharp and create melodies, create guitar licks, and try to add F sharp. Okay? For example, if you'll take right here in this position shape number two, you can find right here, right here, Fight number seven on string number two, in flag number nine on string number five. Really nice, isn't it? Short cut in the sport is remember if you memorize, where is the minor seven flat seven, that is in this case is F sharp, or the measure six is just half step right here. All right, so when you play a leg, use this seven. You can play with your measure six as well, just half staff. Sounds cool. Let's supervise a little bit. 5. How to use arpeggios in blues: We cannot forget about the pages that are really come on in blues. Especially if you mix the blues with your styles like rock and jazz. Pago, fis, triad or T. You just need to play three or four notes of your Tk. Play like this. You play as melody. Okay? You have the pago of root notes. My root notes over again. Okay? To make your life easier, I'm going to ask you to memorize just this four, okay? In this example, we are in a seven major third flat seven, the roots notes, okay? This four notes. And it's important to memorize this finger pattern because we can repeat this right here, okay, right here. And if you had one more string, you could play exactly the same part, the same shape. Okay? So this shape is really, really important. And it's going to be nice to memorize the notes on the fret board as well. As you can see, you can play and create several types of flicks and mellots. As you can see, this last part I played, this C sharp, Yes, you can add this trick in the third note, right, C sharp, or when you go to perfect fifth, you can add this flat five. Perfect fifth, okay? Is the trick that you can apply in blues, any kind of situation, especially in or paga. As you can see, it sounds really nice and it's really simple. You just need to think about the root notes. Measure third, fifth, and seven of your, okay? In this case we are in a seven. And remember about this trick, about four notes in this pattern. Because when you go to D, you can keep playing. You can keep playing D, or even in. So you could play turn around like this, right? It's really nice now Sam Pracs, But we're going to improvise with the backing track for us. Check this out. 6. Triads in Blues: I have a trick with triads that I would like to share with you. Let's play a few triads. Use strings number 12.3 The first guitar shape is going to be this one. This is measure tried. I have root nodes measured sharp is as per five. If this guitar shape I have measure triad. In this case we are going to use this guitar shape when we improvising a seven, okay? When you have a seven, you can the strict, tri, tri, tri, okay? So as you can see, the same guitar shape, it's just necessary to think about the root note DNA on the string number three. Okay, We play like this sounding blu'so. Simple. It's blues at all. But let's slow down a little bit, let's learn the other shapes and you're going to see that it's going to sound really nice. The second guitar shape of it's going to be right here. This is one everybody knows, this cord, right? This Mesa cord. You can use this here in here, okay? So just stick with the three densing seven. Of course if you understand this idea, you can transpose two art scales as well using D S four, number seven. Number one, the root cord. We have another gutter shape right here. Now we can start to create something more interesting. It sounds a little bit better, right? It's kind of blues pop slash gospel. Yes, gospel. You can follow of this type of muskintervls. It's very nice, but be patient. I have one more guitar shape here and another trick to mix with this and so more blues guitar shape. Number three is going to be this one right here, as you can see now our root note on a string number one, okay? We have root note on a string number three. We string right here, string number two, now it's on a string number one going to play right here. Barra, you have this third option here is when you are in a seven, you can correct melodies using the tricks, Three types of guitar shapes, guitar triads. Oh, the auditor. Okay, it's going to sound very nice. And of course, instead of play everything, you can play just a few intervals. You can maybe use the same approach, the same guitar shape, and play just strings number 3.1 or strings number 2.3 or mix everything and add the other tricks on antatonic minor scale or pentatonic blue scale, okay? It's sub j, going to improvise a little bit, check this out. 7. We need to talk about guitar bends: On our feet and light supply and the blues music is kind of weird band. Usually when we play a band we play going yet and we play a kind of bread. That sounds really cool, isn't it? You play this band? I play with my finger number three. And my finger number two helps my measure finger. Okay, So sounds really cool. Really blues. But you can play the oppose, we can play the notes on top like this. In going down. Sounds really cool. Check this out. Really fancy, isn't it? So you can apply this, any kind of guitar shape. In this case, I apply in my pentatonic guitar shape. Number one, I play this D when I play this band. When going down I'm playing D nodes perfect fifth to a perfect fourth. All right, so try to create some legs. This technique with this knowledge you can just change instead of take a leg that you already know. Instead of playing the regular band, you play the opposite sounds. Really cool. Our finger like to play related bands is this kind of, it's almost a double stop, right? So when I play channels together and I play this kind of band, this kind of effect with my finger number one sounds really cool. And you can play in any kind of flick sounds really fancy, really nice other things, school, if you don't want to play chew notes with your finger number one is B finger. You can play just one stand of going up, you're going down. Just take pattern number one and practice. It's not necessarily to apply every kind of pattern, okay? If you can, if you know all the patterns, when you learn a new technique and you approach just in the par shape that you know better, okay? In this case. In this example, it's in 87 first pitter shape. Now, such brags. 8. Repetitive licks: Repetitive leaks is really come in this amazing music style. So let's stick with the three notes. Let's think that we are playing seven blues, okay? So we have the note number four of a minor third and the root notes. The three notes we can play of things and we can repeat and create some kind of melody that stick in the mind of the audience. So when you play blues, you can improvise, create guitar licks, but you can create some repetitive leaks as well. As you can see, I created this lick and played several, several times and finish with another lick. This type of thing is really cool. And as I told you before, this kind of melody keep playing in the head of the audience. And they memorize. They recognize your solo by this kind of by this kind of repetition. That's why it's very important. Another thing that is nice to talk is when you play this three notes, you can play using slides. Hammer on, pull off. You can play with music intervals. You can change the rhythm, okay? You can do a lot of things, just three notes, just changing the dynamic or the technique that you were applying, okay? So for example, I can play like this, this kind of P. I can pick everything I can play with. Music intervals. I can play with slide. I'm just using three notes and I have a lot of ideas to play and improvise. And it's blost, in this case I'm going improvise a little bit. Of course I'm going to use other Guitrolyx, okay? But in some part of my guitar solo, I'm going to apply this type of technique just to prove to you that we can be very creative using three notes. Alright, let's go F. 9. The BB King and Buddy Guy trick: Important to talk about by King and buy Guy. These two amazing guitar players change the way we play. Blues. They don't think mud about scales, they don't think Tom about guitar shapes or even guitars. They create a conversation, dialogue when the Ip improvise lyric and play home the guitar. If you watch video on Youtube or any platform, you're going to see that they usually stick with some notes. That's very important to the red. What do I mean with that? When we play a blues in a thinking about 7773 cores, we can find in the regular blues, if we play in the imposition part, the notes every single time when we are going to play seven, this is going to sound as a root note, where we go to this, same is going to sound like a perfect fifth, right? So you can find a notes in seven scale. When we go to the notes, the same sound as what, a regular fourth tur. As you can see, we can use one notes in all the three chords and Baby King and Buddy Guy use this lot. They don't focus too much about speed and technique, but they use the repetitive notes to create amazing souls. And the easiest way should use that in so Ns, create a leg. Let's say we are playing seven. We can't create a leg like this thing. So as you can see, I use pattern number two and create this. It's very easy, right? 810898. Okay. It's a very simple, I'm not going to write the tablets, really simple notes. Five notes. I repeat this, not, not fragumber eight on a string number one and frag ten on a string number two. So you can create any kind of pattern that's going to sound nice trach. Use this approach, improvise and create a main guitar licks and solos. Sometimes they use this Tu met and sometimes with band for example, when we are in, in notes, when we go to, they play a kind of band going. And they play this band going down the armond. Alright, so you are playing with the band and we are going down and play the node Sounds really cool. Arm you play the band in arm you play the band going down to find nodes and finishing right. Sounds really cool. But let's, let's stop the talking port and let's play Go. To improvise and use this type of techniques, check this out. 10. 10 Blues guitar licks: Time to learn a few guitar licks. And it's very important to memorize those guitar licks just to give you a kind of guitar lick database when you are going to improve. Okay, so I'm going to teach you very nice links to pracs, the pentonic minus scale, and a ptonic blue scale. Use the blue sounds. Are you ready? So let's go. This type of guitar leak, I apply the pattern number 1.2 from my minor pentatonic. Okay, In this example is minor first pattern and the second pattern, that's why I play this slide right here in this part is everything on the pattern number two. So the first thing that I play in this guitar leak is Mejor. Ms. Corn, I play slide in the fret number two to four. Okay, on the string number 34 times. Play off number two and play I lick very fast. Fret number five to fret number two on string number four. Fret number five to fret number two. However, on the string number five, fret number three on string number six. And come back when you play this part right here, that is very fast. You should play with a pull off, a very nice and clear pull off, so All right, once again Ps. With me, don't forget to play your open string number six before you play Imager. All right, so let's play everything very slowly. 34. This guitar looks very nice because we have a few slides, right? So shape number two of our blue scale. All right, so we're going to play a string number 2.10, on the string number two and come back to weight on the string number two. All right? You can play everything finger number one, but it's important to play tight with a slide, okay? So eight to eight. All right, After this part, we play nine on string number 378, okay? So a slide to our blues note. Come back to 710 with your pink finger, okay? On the string number four. And the last note, A flat number seven, on the string number four. All right? So of course you can change the rhythm a little bit and slides. Of course it's going to sound very nice as well and improvise from this guitar legs, okay? Very nice leg to improvisation, but it's important to practice this step by step. And of course, when you, any kind of guitar leg is important to understand the concept, okay? Start with that is a flat seven. And our blues note here, our last note is, all right, 34. This time I'm going to start right here in a notes frack number 12 on string number five. I'm going to play ten to 12 on number F'. Going to add a slide right here, 12-13 and come back to 12. It's going to sound like this. All right? So you pick 12 and play a slide and come back. All right, Next part is 1210, so I'm going to add this, pull off. All right. 12 more time, but in this case I'm going to play on the string number five. Come back ten on the string number 4.12. On the string number five. All right? So it's going to sound like this. Once again, you can add this, this vibrato in the end of your leg. It's got, it sounds very nice. And of course you can improvise a little bit and create a new guitar lake. Okay, cop my idea and create your own guitar lake. Remember you're in pattern number three of our minor pentatonic scale. And I add my sharp right here just to sound my blues. All right? That's why we call this the guitar shape as pentatonic blues scale. Okay? But remember you are sounding like a minor pentatonic scale. The same notes as the first pattern, the second pattern, and the other patterns. I'm just adding sharp. All right. 11. Blues jam exercise + final notes: I would like to try a very different exercise, but a very iterative exercise. I'm going to start the backing track and I'm going to improvise a little bit. I'm going to provide some U bars are going to stop, you will improvising che bars. Okay, let's play this exercising improvisations less an exercise. It's going to be very nice and I'm going to use the 87 backing tracks so you can use all the tricks that have been learned. And of course, pentatonic, my blue ski. All right, so remember you're going to play bars. You're gonna stop here. You keep playing and compliment my Guitleg. Ready? Let's go, let's go Cho bars. All right? Eight set loose. 21. Cheer start. 34, 34, 34. I'll come back 344. It seems necessary to play in some complicated you let's keep ran right You three for you, come back. 234. Pick him back. You now it's my turn. How's my turn? My turn. You? Yeah, my turn now. Let's let you gather. Let's provide you gather. I will keep you playing simple, Okay? And you, Professor E. As can see, this exercise is really, really nice. I play to bars and you play to bars. We can N, it's really cool, isn't it? Especially in this ending that we play together. The idea is guitar improvise or in your guitar. That's why I keep it simple, okay? Just keeping the main melody of our harmony. Okay? So I hope you enjoy, and of course you can improvise with me anytime you want. Just repeat this lesson. This is the last lesson of our course. I hope you enjoy. Thanks so much for watching me. And remember this course is for you, so you can watch. Watch all the lessons over and over again. Okay. It's going to be very important to master this ology and memorize all the tricks in short kits that have beta, okay. And please check my profile on the platform. I have all the course about blues, about how improvise on the guitar, about solos, harmony tricks about chords in a Laura Fin. Problems going to help you as well. Okay. Thank you so much and see you next course. Bye bye.