Blues Licks For Absolute Beginners

Beginning guitarists will benefit from these easy-to-absorb lessons designed to teach the essential basics of blues guitar playing. Essential lead guitar techniques are also covered including string bending, hammer-ons and pull-offs, sliding and vibrato, which can be useful in many styles of guitar playing from jazz to metal. Other topics covered include: the blues scale - the major and minor pentatonic scales - outlining the chords - double stops - phrasing - relative scales - turnaround licks - extended pentatonics - 12-bar blues progressions - blues phrasing - and more.