Blues lick8

Key:A minor pentatonic with added "blues note"

Technique: Hybrid picking

Beat Suvbdivision: played with slight accelerando in the beginning and slight ritardando 
towards the end (See "Glossary" in the "Hints 'n Tricks" section if you don't understand
the therminology).

Comments: This lick is a pentatonic scale played horisontally (=with position shifts). 
The technique used is hybrid picking ( use of the right hand middle finger is sometimes also called
"popping"). Blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan was a frequent user of this technique. The 
advantages are: 1) Popping causes an increase in dynamics, which,in combination with a 
sensitive amplifier, causes a gain or volume "attack" 2) The technique facilitates string skipping
since the middle finger constantly may rest on the high (=thin) E-string.
To incorporate the technique into your guitar playing, try "popping" with a lick you are already 
familiar with, improvise jam around with it.



e|---5----------8----8-------10-11-10h11p10----10-------------------------------------------|
b|-8---8-5-8/10---10-----/13----------------13----13-10~------------------------------------|
g|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
d|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
a|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
e|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|


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