{"id":8323,"date":"2022-09-06T16:05:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T23:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8323"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:28:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:28:38","slug":"look-for-patterns-in-licks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/look-for-patterns-in-licks\/","title":{"rendered":"Look For Patterns In Licks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I started going through this particular lick for today&#8217;s lesson, I realized there are actually at least 3 cool things going on that are important:<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; The patterns, and how looking at the patterns of notes is SO much easier than remembering the actual notes, one at a time (which is almost impossible.)<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; The really slick way Albert Collins switches between the minor and major blues scales by pivoting on the root, just like I&#8217;ve showed you.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; The rhythm for the first 3 notes is quirky and a little tricky&#8230; which means it&#8217;s well worth your time because it sounds really cool.<\/p>\n<p>And we can add in noticing the C# that comes in during the A7 chord so you know where this lick can work&#8230; and where it can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>All good things, so take your time and maybe watch this more than once to take it all in.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:853px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:853px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.271981242673%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XbZtxaFWcQ?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Depending on what you got out of this video, you might also dig:<\/p>\n<p>How To Improvise Blues Solos (better known as how to tear licks apart and put them back together again) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-improvise\/\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-how-to-improvise\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Major\/Minor Blues Shapes (switching between the major and minor blues sounds all over the neck) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-major-minor-blues-shapes\/\">https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-major-minor-blues-shapes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The All Access Pass (you can try it for $1) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/gobgu.com\/dollaraap\">https:\/\/gobgu.com\/dollaraap<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I started going through this particular lick for today&#8217;s lesson, I realized there are actually at least 3 cool things going on that are important: 1 &#8211; The patterns, and how looking at the patterns of notes is SO much easier than remembering the actual notes, one at a time (which is almost impossible.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8327,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8323\/revisions\/8327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}