Course Outline

How to Best Use this Course

• Welcome to Blues Lead Guitar for Beginners
• How to Best Use this Course
• What is Improvisation
• Introduction to the 12 Bar Blues

The Blues Scale

• Welcome to the Blues Scale Section
• Introduction to the Blues Scale
• Minor Blues Form 1
• How to Practice Form 1 - Making Things Musical
• Intro to Visual Jam Tracks
• Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Why Does the Minor Blues Scale work over a Major Chord Progression
• Minor Blues Form 2
• How to Practice Form 2 - Hammer-Ons
• Practice Form 2 - Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Minor Blues Form 3
• How to Practice Form 3 - Pull-Offs
• Practice Form 3 - Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Minor Blues Form 4
• How to Practice Form 4 - Vibrato
• Practice Form 4 - Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Minor Blues Form 5
• How to Practice Form 5 - Bending the 3rd
• Practice Form 5 - Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Connecting the Forms
• Changing Keys
• Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in G
• Major Blues - Related to Minor
• Pentatonic Scale vs Blues Scale
• Other Ways to Practice the Pentatonic Scale
• Final Observations of the Blues Scale

Shaping The Blues

• Dialing In a Great Blues Tone
• Expressing Yourself with Inflection Technique
• Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Chasing the Chord
• Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A
• Adjacent String Trick
• Visual Jam Track - SloMo Blues in A

Licks

• Introduction the Licks Section
• Form 1 - Lick 1
• Form 1 - Lick 2
• Form 1 - Lick 3
• Form 1 - Lick 4
• Form 1 - Lick 5
• Form 2 - Lick 1
• Form 2 - Lick 2
• Form 2 - Lick 3
• Form 2 - Lick 4
• Form 2 - Lick 5
• Form 3 - Lick 1
• Form 3 - Lick 2
• Form 3 - Lick 3
• Form 3 - Lick 4
• Form 3 - Lick 5
• Form 4 - Lick 1
• Form 4 - Lick 2
• Form 4 - Lick 3
• Form 4 - Lick 4
• Form 4 - Lick 5
• Form 5 - Lick 1
• Form 5 - Lick 2
• Form 5 - Lick 3
• Form 5 - Lick 4
• Form 5 - Lick 5
• Transition Lick 1
• Transition Lick 2
• Transition Lick 3
• Transition Lick 4
• Transition Lick 5
• Phrasing- Soloing is a Conversation

Embellishment Notes (Playing Major Blues)

• Intro to Embellishments
• Adding the Major 3 to the Blues Scale
• Adding the Major 6 to the Blues Scale
• Adding the Major 2 & 7 to the Blues Scale

Call & Response

• Introduction to Call & Response Section
• Demonstration of Call Response
• Call Response - Example 1
• Call Response - Example 2
• Call Response - Example 3
• Call Response - Example 4
• Call Response - Example 5
• Congratulations

Bonus: Visual Jam Tracks

• Intro to Bonus Visual Jam Tracks
• Slomo Blues in A (1 chord Vamp)
• Slomo Blues in G (1 chord Vamp)
• Slomo Blues in E (1 chord Vamp)
• Texas Blues Rock in C (Two Chord Vamp)
• SlowMo Blues in A (Full Song)
• SlowMo Blues in G (Full Song)
• Blues Shuffle Swing in A (Full Song)
• Texas Rock Straight in C (Full Song)
• Get Out the Way Blues in D (Full Song)
• Acoustic Minor Blues in Bm (Full Song)
• Pride and Joy in E (Full Song)