Category Archives: Blues Guitar Lessons

Guide Tone Blues Lick #2 – T-Bone Shuffle

You may know the blues classic “T-Bone Shuffle” by one of the great blues guitarists, T-Bone Walker. We are all standing on T-Bone Walker’s shoulders, by the way, so if you are not familiar with him you need to be. The “T-Bone Shuffle” is a great example of the use of guide tones in the [...]

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Put Those Guide Tones In Your Blues Licks – Example #1

In my previous post I introduced the idea of using guide tones to make your blues licks sound more sophisticated. In this post I give you an example of a repeating line that ends on the guide tone. You’ll see, or hear actually, that this technique really brings out the chord changes in your single [...]

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Blues Guitar Lesson: Using Guide Tones In Blues Licks

Jazz musicians have a concept, sometimes called “playing through the changes.” What this means is that your licks should reflect the chord changes that you are playing over. For example, when you are playing over a C7 chord, your guitar line should sound like a C7, when the chord is an F7 it should sound [...]

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