Day 13 - How to IMPROVISE your own blues lead lines for BEGINNERS!
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14 Day BB Day 13 - Blues in A - You play the lead
Welcome to the penultimate day of this 14 day bootcamp. In this lesson we learn a lead line which fits great with the previous days 12 blues in A and also touch on the idea of improvisation just with a few notes.
1 finger lead line
This lead line is just 2 notes paired together known as a ‘Double Stop’
Finger 1 on fret 5
Hold down strings 1 & 2
Thumb over the top of the neck for best control
The trick here is the rhythm! Play these notes on the & between Beats 1 & 2 and then again on beat 3.
1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - &
Improvising in A pentatonic
Using the same four notes in the previous lesson in A pentatonic: Frets 5 & 7 on strings 3 & 4. We can play these notes as simply as:
In scale order (3 up and 3 down for example)
Add pauses between notes
At some point, we can jump out of scale order to add something different!
Just have a go, follow your own ideas and have fun!