Guitar Lesson 25: Supercharging your Blues licks and adding some fire and fury to your playing

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In guitar lesson 25, Dan and I improvise over a Blues backing track in G (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5r_KSLxYkg) and then we examine some of the licks and approaches which add some oomph into someone’s style and playing. Dan patiently breaks down a few of his licks for me and hopefully, after some practise, I will be able to inject them into my own playing to give it some clout. All our improvisations over the backing track have been left in warts and all so you can learn from my mistakes as well as Dan’s playing and hints. I've been going back over the riffs Dan shows me In this episode and thought it might be helpful if I shared the timings on this episode in case you, like me, want to go back over some of these riffs to try to commit them to memory and file them away in the old trick bag! In minutes and seconds: 4:30 jam 1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5r_KSLxYkg) 13:35 double stops 14:20 riff on top strings 15:10 same including blues note symmetrical 16:30 same staggered pattern across 5 strings from A string 12th fret to E string 15th fret 19:35 descending riff and played chicken pickin' at 22:30 23:40 trill Gary Mooreism B string 3 and 6th frets slide to 2nd and 5th frets 24:10 trill idea plotting path up fretboard 25:10 trill and yank string behind trill to modulate 26:45 country style rolling trill lick with moved pattern at 27:55 and slightly alternative lick based on same idea at 29:00 31:00 Eric Johnson inspired descending lick straight from the pentatonic scale 34:40 jam 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5r_KSLxYkg 44:20 jam 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5r_KSLxYkg