{"id":8576,"date":"2024-05-08T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T01:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=8576"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:54:18","slug":"50maj-sblbtb-major-slow-blues-lick-5-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/50maj-sblbtb-major-slow-blues-lick-5-5\/","title":{"rendered":"[50MAJ-SBLBTB] Major Slow Blues Lick 5\/5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Box 5 doesn&#8217;t get a lot of love, especially when you&#8217;re playing the minor blues scale&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, when you realize that it&#8217;s the box that fits right over top of any &#8216;A shape&#8217; major or 7th chord (the root on the 5th string variety) then it becomes a lot more useful.<\/p>\n<p>Try this lick out for yourself, and make it a point to use it over the jam track below so you can get the hang of it.<\/p>\n<p>This lick can be found in <a href=\"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/get-50-major-slow-blues-licks-by-the-box\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 Major Slow Blues Licks By The Box<\/a> (if you need more like it.)<\/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\/eVQgIig4_78?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>Want a cool slow blues in A jam track with it? That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bgu-member.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/50MAJ_SBLBTB\/MP3\/50MSBLBTB-SlowBlues-A-Full.mp3\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the one chord (A7) jam track is <a href=\"https:\/\/bgu-member.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/50MAJ_SBLBTB\/MP3\/50MSBLBTB-Trading-1Chord-A.mp3\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PDF of the lick is <a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com\/50MSBLBTB_FUN\/50MSBLBTB-PRE6-BOX5-LICK.pdf\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Box 5 doesn&#8217;t get a lot of love, especially when you&#8217;re playing the minor blues scale&#8230; But, when you realize that it&#8217;s the box that fits right over top of any &#8216;A shape&#8217; major or 7th chord (the root on the 5th string variety) then it becomes a lot more useful. Try this lick out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8577,"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\/8576"}],"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=8576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9113,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8576\/revisions\/9113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}