TelePaul said:Hmmmm recommend? Do you want tab or audio samples or what? When i play blues, i like to play the intro lick from a song called 'Tobacco Road' by the Nashville teens....Jimmy Page played guitar for em i think. It has a sweet full tone bend in the D blues position and some string skips and a release. Ya gotta hear it. Try look for tab for that. With blues, its all about the Blues scale or Pentatonic; though you can kinda get variations in swing or shuffle...another nice phrase is the intro to ''I know a little'' by lynrd skynrd. Try the solo break in ''Folsom Prison Blues'' by Johnny Cash; think thats Luther Perkins in guitar. Anything by Rory Gallagher. Alot of clapton stuff, like 'Strange Brew' The Yardbirds' 'Heart Full of Soul' or 'Baby Please Dont Go' by Them. Whats your ability? What blues guitar players are you into?
cephus said:I hope that this helps. Blues is kind of tough because it has 3 chords AND 5 NOTES!
TelePaul said:I'm sure Robert Johnson got by on his five notes...
Druw said:It would be nice though for some people to post their favourite licks, kinda like a lick collection.
Zaphod B said:Tell you what.
Get fired from your job, and struggle for a while on your wife's salary as a waitress. Get kicked out of the house when she gets tired of supporting your lazy, worthless, but artistic ass.
Find a room with a friend. Start drinking. A lot. Start selling all your gear because you can't seem to find the motivation to find a job. Run out of money and friends.
When you find yourself on the street corner with nothing but a the dirty clothes on your back, a half-pint of rot-gut tequila, and the cheap acoustic guitar that is your only remaining piece of musical gear, which you will be taking to the pawn shop tomorrow, sit down and play the fucking thing while you still have it.
You will then have some blues licks and won't have to come to some message board to find them.
(Not that I know anything about this personally, you understand, that's just how I've always heard blues players are born. )