Lesson 5: E Blues Riffs

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Transcript

Alright, so let's take a look at some riffs in the E blues key will be the first riff here, I'll show you it really slow, starts on the second fret of the A string and then goes to the D string and then second fret on the D string, and then play that again. So, second fret on the A string, D string, second fret of the D string, which is the E note. So just For fun, this would be the be the note D. Okay, once you've tried that a few times, then let's head over to the second riff, second riff goes like this, starting on the G. Okay, that slow, second fret on the G string, G, second fret on the D string. So notice with both the risks, we're ending up on the second fret on the D string, which is the E note which is the root note in the blues key.

And that's very common when soloing is you kind of bounce in and around the root note of the key that you're playing in. resolves it Now once you're comfortable with that, I'm going to show you a riff in the 12th position. Now if you didn't take too much time to work on the blues scale in the 12th position, don't worry about it, you can just if you want, you can attempt to this or you can just leave it be I'll do another riff after this one. So you can just fast forward to that if you want. But this would be it in the 12th position. Play it really slow.

So index finger on the 12th fret of the D string. The 12th fret is the one with the two dots. Most guitars have the two dots here, you might need to count up 1-234-567-8910 1112. Okay, once you've found that, play that which is the dino And then the 14th fret on the D string and then up to the 12th fret and then 14th fret back on the D string to that again, 12th fret on the D string, 14th fret and then 12th fret on the G 14th fret on the D string. And again, you're ending up on the, the E note, which is the root note of the blue scale. Hopefully that fast again, pretty popular kind of riff.

Okay, I'm going to show you one more riff. Now, this riff is very particular to the chord that you're soloing over. So I don't know if you remember from when we were working on soloing over The the key of G, chords and so on, we just kind of played mostly just a riff anywhere within that, you know within that key, or within that chord progression over any sort of chord. Now, this riff and you'll see when you're playing along to the 12 bar blues, this riff should only be used at this point. When you see the E seven, when the E seven is being played, then you play this riff here, which is k, okay, so that's G, and then first fret on the G string, and then second fret on the D string. I'll play that slow again.

So g, and then first fret on the G string. And then second fret. Okay, now that is only particular to the east seven chord for our purposes now, and you can see that when when I play that, like that, okay, then oh, then you're playing the last little bit of the E chord or have an E chord, or it could be an E seven like that. Especially this one right here. That really defines the chord. So that's why it's particular to the E chord or the E seven chord.

Now, you can just go and pick both of those or you can do what's called a hammer on where you go. So you don't pick it again, you just play this G and then hammer that on. Now that might be a little difficult at this point, so don't worry about that. Not really a big deal to do, just practice. And then I'll show you how to use that over the actual East seven chord. All right, one quick little suggestion is that the riff to back in black, the AC DC song is great for the using or incorporating the blue scale is something you might want to just check out after this lesson.

But otherwise, head over to the next lesson and we'll get jammin in the blues key

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