Learn to Play Lead Blues Guitar Licks Fast And Easy!

So you want the secret to playing some killer sounding lead/solo's on the guitar?

Big news, it's a heck of a lot easier than you might think.

More often than not, guitar players learn a scale or a series of notes and they have no clue

how to use them effectively. I don't care if you're beginner or advanced, you know what I mean!

You pick up your guitar and start running through the notes and they sound just like that â€â€Å" a bunch

of notes with no real direction, style or taste for that matter.

You start playing at the bottom of the scale and you don't stop until you get to the top. Or maybe

you start at the top and run to the bottom. Then what?

It just sounds mundane and boring.

Well, I understand! Everybody does it but you can squash that problem in less than a few minutes

using this very simple step.

I call it the Gimme-Gimme notes.

By simply knowing where to pick up a note or two in a different place, you can cause your playing

to sound like you've been at it for decades and the really cool part is that it will cause you to play all

over the neck of the guitar and see more places for licks and chording possibilities.

Think that sound s tough? Wrong!

A simple way to do it is to just remember this...

Any note you play on on your top string has an octave ("Gimee") note three frets up the neck and two

strings down. When I say up the neck, I'm referring to the direction towards your picking hand.

So, if you're playing the A note on the top string at the fifth fret, you can grab the exact same note on

the seventh fret and the D string.

Easy enough!

So if you run through a lick (or phrase) and normally end up on that fifth fret note, DON'T GO THERE!

Instead end up on that note at the seventh fret on the D string. It sounds really cool and different!

Like that? well guess what...

You can apply the exact same rule to the A string (second from the top string).

Simply go up the neck two frets and then down two strings and grab the same note!

Try going through a simple scale like the Pentatonic Minor for example and apply both of these rules for

some seriously different sounds in your normal attempts at playing Lead blues Guitar Licks or any other

style for that matter.

Rev this concept up even further by playing both the root note and the octave note at the same time.

Just let your finger that's playing the root note do it's thing and allow the octave note to tag along for

the ride. You don't even have to think about it as it will just follow along.

It's a great way to give emphasis to either note (the root note or the one up two frets and down two strings).

Make it sound even more interesting by playing them harder or softer when you do this. It has the ability to

really change the mood of the solo or lick and it's very easy to do.

Give this a few days of practice and you'll walk away seeing many more places to go in your soloing.

Look for the same options when your playing a chord.

By doing this, you'll open up a world of opportunities to break out of the box and stop sounding like your

just going up and down a scale and being haunted by the scale monster.

Practice it fast and slow until you get it down nice and smooth.