Category Archives: Blues Licks

Double Stop Blues Licks

By Marc | Published: January 9, 2011

There are some licks that are so undeniably the blues that every blues guitarist needs to know them. This first lick is so common you can’t pick up a guitar to jam the blues without hitting it somewhere. Its been used by everyone from John Lee Hooker to Stevie Ray Vaughan, and even Miles Davis [...]

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Guide Tone Blues Lick #2 – T-Bone Shuffle

By Marc | Published: October 26, 2010

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

By Marc | Published: October 25, 2010

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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