Not much to say here… this is just a fun lick that you oughta know how to do.

It has a few little techniques that you will see time, and time, and time again throughout your playing…

So might as well buckle down and get ’em happening 🙂

Dig it!


    29 replies to "Shuffle Lick In A (just for fun)"

    • David Menke

      excellent lick, not quite as fast as you play, can I.

    • BOB LANDESS

      HI GRIFF … once again I enjoy watching your videos and learning some of the theory behind the licks I have played over the years, not knowing exactly what I was doing … I literally stumbled into what I now know as the Am pentatonic scale over fifty years ago … was doing the bends and arpegios but NOT understanding the music theory behind … just duplicating the sounds I would hear from recordings … your videos have really opened up a new interest in what I have been instinctively doing over the years of playing (now starting my 79th year) … I remember taking drum lessons back in th 60’s just to learn how to get a sense of musical time … if you want to get a good idea of timing, talk to a drummer … he is counting time with two hands and two feet … each one on a different beat … mind boggling … espically in 5/4 time of the song “TAKE FIVE” … or the funky beat of the song “SCRATCHY” …

      I started learning guitar back in the mid-fifties … my guitar teacher a jazz guitar player … introduced me to all the funky substitute chords to get that “JAZZ” sound … still a student and learning the instrument, along with the theory … so much to know and learn … but a common language of musicians … got into the “BLUES” sound in 1960, Memphis TN … the Home of the Blues … Rufus Thomas, the local blues icon … loved that guy … his family so musically talented …

    • Steve Dunlap

      More licks please? Makes me better!

    • Mike Gildea

      love your stuff!

    • DaveyJoe

      Cool!

    • Bob K

      Another fun lesson Griff!

    • Michael J. McRae

      Excellent lesson again, love this stuff. Some of this I’ve been playing for quite a while, but a review is always good. I have a question that maby you could address some time: what is the difference between a lick, a hook, and a riff (if any)?

    • Alexander

      Great video, I do have to the blues building blocks and man it’s pretty humbling. But I do notice that things that I had problems doing are getting easier. Still in Group 2 level 2 . It’s really pushing me. Good challenge for me. Thanks for the lesson,

      Alexander

    • Tim

      its also a classic Kenny Burrell move.

    • Miles

      Hey Griff how about some licks in other keys, such as the key of E

      • Steven McDowall

        This lick is totally moveable to any key — even E (although the fingering is a bit different).

      • Mike T.

        In E the full bend on the 3rd string 2nd fret will be just about impossible. Swap that bend for a slide to the 4th fret (same note as what the bend would go to).

    • Bob

      Loud and clear!

    • jack bouckeno

      That was great i look forward every morning to your stuff.
      Jack

    • Jeff

      Great rif. I used to watch your new-lick videos and think, “That’s a good lick, but I haven’t any idea what to do with it.”

      Griff pimped his Blues Speed Building Blocks, which is a good course. I have it. BUT, I would recommend working on Griff’s How To Improvise Blues Solos course first. I have it too.

      How To Improvise Blues Solos is much easier than the Blues Speed Building Blocks. That makes it more usable. How To Improvise Blues Solos is THE course to start with if you want to know what to do with all the new licks you learn here or other sources.

      I think that besides, BGU 2.0 and Acoustic BGU, How To Improvise Blues Solos is the best course Griff has. Griff might not like me saying this, but if/when you get through BGU 2.0 and How To Improvise Blues Solos, you may never, ever want/need to buy another course. Maybe Rhythm Mastery & Fills. But, seriously, How To Improvise Blues Solos was a real “ah-hha” eye-opener for me.

      • Jim

        Thanks Jeff for the info. I have gotten through about 2/3 of Blues Speed Building Blocks. I have improved greatly, but since I was just robotically going through the exercises and solos I don’t remember many of the licks and can’t easily apply them. I need to somehow memorize the licks and use them periodically so I don’t forget them.

        I could probably go back through BGU 2 again. I surely missed things. I don’t have Acoustic BGU but I do have Spent Money Blues and Rhythm Mastery and they are great. I’ll have to check out How To Improvise Blues Solos. I go back and forth between Griff and Artist Works and others and suffer a little bit from information overload.

    • Chas

      Been a member for three years plus. Incredible improvement. I too look forward to these mini series. Jerry Persall, where do you live in Colorado? I’m the treasurer for Fort Collins blues society.

    • Jerry Persall

      These mini lessons really do make my Colorado mornings! I am very grateful for the new insights they bring to my playing. I probably own Just about everything in the BGU library but the continuing education of my fingers and mindset are what set this guitar system head and shoulders above the noise and confusion. Longtime student. Thank you!

    • kim

      Does it make much of a difference I do not do the finger roll? Instead of the finger roll I tend to bar the E on the B string and the A on the E string.

      This is a very useful lesson

      • Glenn

        I have the same question. I do that in a few different situations

    • michael Costello

      Love these mini lessons keep him coming Griff

    • Ron Underwood

      What model Suhr guitar 🎸 is that ?

      • Griff

        It’s A Classic Pro

    • Peter P Bas

      To catch a beat on a recording – listen to the drummer. The snare is usually easy to hear in the mix. Snare drum plays on two and four. Get that workin’ and fill in the other beats to find one. Help to realy know the tune, that’s fifty to one hundred repititions of really listening. Always works and people I’ve ontroduced to this idea get it, takes a little work, ain’t nothin’ free! Play them blues!

    • Ron Underwood

      What model sure guitar you that that you play

    • David

      I’ve always resisted counting because I can never figure out how you determine what beat a song or a lick starts on. I always think..we’ll the first sound is the first beat. Unless the song has an audible count in for one bar I have no clue. Do you have a video that helps getting started on how to count out the beginning of a piece of music 🎶?

      • Jeff

        This lick gets counted in triplet time. ie. One And Ah Two And Ah. With this lick, if you look, there’s a mark before the first note. That’s a “rest”. An 1/8th rest.

        So to start, you count the first rest as One And, then strike the first note on the “Ah” of beat one. LIke so: One And STRIKE THE NOTE

        It’s similar to beat four except you swap out the rest for the first note of beat four and count that first note Four And (while you give it the blues squeeze)…then strike the last note on the “Ah” of four.

    • mike

      Hey Griff, Is it possible to demo make, model and operation of your pedals in a video?

    • Rick

      Great lick Griff! Got it here in the morning with my coffee. Good start of the day!

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