Jazz blues lick video

[Robert]

A jazzy lick you can play over the first 4 bars of a blues.

Vein Warning: I forgot to wear my long sleeve shirt! :D

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[Jimi75]

OMG look at these v........ahhhh not again ;)

Nice video and a nice lick. You seem to prefer the Patrit for the more jazzy stuff. It sounds great for such licks and jazzy style.

Thanks for the vid Rob.

[bigG]

That's a really sweet one, Robert! Flows like Tupelo honey!

I could stand ALOT more like that! :bravo: :master:

[Robert]

I get fewer and fewer comments every time I post a video lesson... :cry: do they suck?

Anyway, thanks largeG!

[Rocket]

I get fewer and fewer comments every time I post a video lesson... do they suck?
Not at all... I learned the very same thing posting lessons over at WB forum... made me feel weird so that's why I hesitate to do it again.
(Maybe I'm just too needy!)

[piebaldpython]

Very good lesson Robert and well taught. You are an excellent teacher and I enjoy your lessons. Keep up the good work.

[M29]

Man I don't know how I missed this one. A bit a head of me but something I can work toward.

Thanks for the vein warning, that helped:rotflmao:

That fretboard looks like it would be a great time to play on. Is it ebony?

Thanks Robert:AOK:

M

[Robert]

Yep, it's ebony and very smooth and easy to play. Thanks guys.

[sunvalleylaw]

I hope you don't feel that way. I truly appreciate all the lessons you put up, though I did not have time today or tonight to really use it. I just got back from an excellent MTB ride, and the house is all quiet and dark so I can't even play it loud enough to hardly hear.

Rocket, I was liking your lesson you had going too. I hope you choose to post more soon. :)

[bigG]

Robert, perhaps some players think this lesson to be "too much" - too much a jumble of notes w no reference...?

I have alot to say here, but I'll try to make it as brief as I can:

First, I cannot emphasize enough how important it is to learn the basic pentatonic scale "box". In this lesson, except, by my count, two notes, Robert is playing every note within the basic pentatonic "box" parameters. (Robert, perhaps w every lick lesson, you might begin w the 6-string, first position pentatonic scale as a reference to everything that follows in the lick lesson...? I think this would be a huge help and reference point for alot of players.)

Once you get that "box" down, you are ready to launch into ANYTHING - any type, style or genre of lead "licks", from rock to blues, jazz to country, you name it...within the confines of four frets on any string, each string starting on the same fret. I'll try to explain in words, the pentatonic box:

First, barre any chord. Say an A major chord, as A seems to be the most popular chord for alot of players.

Now, notice that all of the barred strings are, of course, at the fifth fret. So, in the basic pentatonic box scale in A major, the first note of the scale will always be at the fifth fret on each string, and played w your first finger.

Now, w that in mind, let's start from the sixth string and work our way up the scale, string by string, note by note, to the first string:

Using your first finger, play the fifth fret on the low E string (sixth string), then place your pinky on the eighth fret of the low E string and pick that note...
next, your first finger on the fifth fret of the A string, then your ring finger (third finger) on the seventh fret of the A string.
Now do the same thing again on the D string: fifth and seventh frets. And the same thing on the G string: fifth and seventh frets.
Now, on the B string, play the fifth fret w your first finger, and then the eighth fret w your pinky, and finally the fifth fret of the high E string w your first finger and the eighth fret w your pinky. That's it!

Now that you've read that, let's simplify it. On the fretboard, the fifth fret of the low and high E strings is an A note. Now, look at the A note as fret one of the A pentatonic scale. In doing this, all that I described above can be laid out much more simply in this way:

Starting on the fifth fret of the fretboard on the low E string, that is now the FIRST fret of the A pentatonic scale, and the run goes like this:
Low E: the 1 fret, then the 4 fret
A string: the 1 fret, then the 3 fret
D string: the 1 fret, then the 3 fret
G string: the 1 fret, then the 3 fret
B string: the 1 fret, then the 4 fret
High E: the 1 fret, then the 4 fret That's it!

Now that you have that, it can be even further simplified as follows, from low E string to high E string, two notes on each string:
1 - 4 / 1 - 3 / 1 - 3 / 1 - 3 / 1 - 4 / 1 - 4

Within the confines of those four frets, you can do just abt anything, in any key: run the exact same scale pattern backwards, from the high E to Low E, play double-stops, arpeggiate triads, bends, slides...on and on...

Every note Robert played in this lick lesson was within the confines of those four frets, in the key of F7 (the 13th fret, using that as your "one" fret, to the 16th fret, as your "four" fret). Except for two notes, where he went outside the "box" by 1/2 step - once 1/2 step, or one fret down, and once 1/2 step, or one fret up.

This can go on and on, of course, "extending" the basic box higher and lower up and down the neck, but we'll stick w that BASIC BOX here. Once you have that down and can play it in your sleep, you are more than WELL ON THE WAY to understanding any variation, of any lead guitar lick, anywhere on the neck.

One caveat: please don't get stuck within that box! Eventually you will learn how to extend it, play within it and outside of it, and it will become second nature and a reference point for opening up the fretboard to endless possibilities...there is SO much more to it! But this is the basic stepping stone to all the rest! ALSO, some players disregard the use of the pinky, as it is the weakest finger, and use the ring finger instead. I STRONGLY advise you to use the pinky as described above for two reasons: simply b/c it is the weakest finger and you need to use it and get used to using it and build its strength - and in using it as descibed it frees up your ring finger to play the 3 fret within the box.

Hopefully this has been of some help to someone, probably the newer players, I would think. Now, after you kinda have this general idea of the "box" in your head, watch Robert's lick(s) again. The one above or any others, and see how they ALL relate to the "box"!

(EDIT: I know I'm sticking my neck out here. This is actually the minor pentatonic scale, which means the third is flatted. In the key of A major, the third is a C#. In Am, the third is flatted, or dropped one fret to a C note. But I'm trying to keep this as basic as possible as a simple reference point. Thanks!)

Practice, enjoy, have fun!

G

[sumitomo]

I saw this yesterday and got busy here at work.I like this jazzy stuff and wow G the swarth is with you brother!!! No really good layout of things,I'm workin my way out of the box and how things overlap ect.Practice and time.Sumi:D

[Perfect Stranger]

Very nice....thanks for your efforts! :AOK: