Day 13 - How to IMPROVISE your own blues lead lines for BEGINNERS!

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! 

Day 13 visual jam track - 12 barre blues in A