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E Blues Licks in 7th PositionE Blues Licks in 7th PositionIf you don't know the E blues scale in 7th position you can learn it from E Blues Scale in 7th Position. Play the guitar licks from the guitar tab below with the E Blues Guitar Backing Track from the Guitar Lessons home page. Note that I've written above each set of licks which bars of the 12 bar blues you should play the lick over. You can experiment with different rhythms but you want to aim to have good phrasing over each section and make all the licks flow together so that they become a whole solo over 1 round of a 12 bar blues. As well as stating which bar you should start playing the guitar licks over I've also added what chord is being played within those bars. For example bars 1 and 2 of the 12 bar blues in E is the E or I chord. Just so you can see it laid out in front of you the 12 bar in E progression is as follows:
You can also see the whole progression on the Guitar Lessons home page. I've only stated that I'm playing E5 chord but I'm actually playing E5 to E6 and going back and fourth and similarly with A5 to A6. The B5 I'm just playing B5 as that was easier to play when I recorded that backing track. The Roman Numerals, I, IV and V (pronounced one, four, five) are used to show what degree of the Major scale each chord falls on. The I chord of an E scale is the Root note. The IV chord of the scale denotes the fourth note of the scale, in the case of E the fourth note is A. The V chord is the fifth degree of the E Major scale which is B. This is a I-IV-V progression. A 'one-four-five' progression. Simply because it uses those 3 chords. A I-IV-V progression could have those chords in any order - it's just that they are the 3 chords used. I-IV-V progressions are the most common type of chord progressions. There was a big sale on I-IV-V progressions in the 1960s at Walmart so there was a bit of an over supply of songs made up of I-IV-V chords in that decade. Nixon tried to stop it but Johnny Cash didn't agree so I-IV-V progressions have remained popular ever since. ok - enough of my lies. History is a thing of the past anyway, lets play the blues! Lick 1 in 7th position:
Lick 2 in 7th position:
Lick 3 in 7th position:
Lick 4 in 7th position:
Lick 5 in 7th position:
Lick 6 in 7th position: As you become more comfortable playing each lick, start to make up your own variations to create your own guitar solos. The guitar solo above is a starting point that gives you some nice phrases which fit well over each of the specific chords in a 12 bar in E. You should also venture out of the 7th position. You can start by moving to the 5th and 10th positions that we used in lesson 03. You can also play the above licks in 12th position. The fret numbers will all be different to the above but the patterns will be mostly the same. There's a skill tester for you - see if you can play the above solo complete in 7th position and then play it in 12th position starting on the 6th string (low E) at the 12th fret. There is only one note that will fall 'out' of pattern from the above if you play it in 12th position. You'll work out which one pretty easily if you play it. The more things you can think of to do like the above the better you'll become. Don't forget: challenge everything I've said above, make up your own rules and find your own voice. Everything you learn is a stepping stone that is just a small part of your own path. Jam on! Guitar Lessons - Home Page
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