This may have been asked/answered previously but....

[GnLguy]

In both the Slow Blues & Shuffle Feel Blues Solo Construction kits, Griff presents licks that he calls Position licks, numbering them for where they apply in the 12 bar form...Position 1 licks, Position 2 licks, etc.

What makes a lick a Position 1 lick or a position 2 lick, etc? How do you look at other licks & determine what position that they would apply to?

As mentioned this may have been asked and/or answered previously and I've overlooked it


Keith
aka GnLguy

 

[Paleo]

For those 2 courses he used licks he found that were in those positions.

Some by others and some of his own.

In his “How To Improvise Blues Solos” course he discusses the qualities of a lick and rotates the same 5 licks through all 5 positions.

That course may better shed some light on what makes a lick a good fit for a given position.

 

[GnLguy]

For those 2 courses he used licks he found that were in those positions.

Some by others and some of his own.

In his “How To Improvise Blues Solos” course he discusses the qualities of a lick and rotates the same 5 licks through all 5 positions.

That course may better shed some light on what makes a lick a good fit for a given position.

Paleo

Thank you for your response.

I looked at the lesson list for 'How To Improvise Blues Solos" and thought that might give me some ideas. Without reviewing that course, I think that I would have to have to look at the notes in a lick and how they apply to the chord progression; it seems to me that would determine which position it be in

Time to investigate further - our journey in playing guitar never ends.....

 

[Paleo]

Without reviewing that course, I think that I would have to have to look at the notes in a lick and how they apply to the chord progression; it seems to me that would determine which position it be in

You need look no further than the first lesson, “The 4 Qualities of a Blues Lick”, to see that the chords involved is the 3rd quality.

 

[TerryWall]

Keith, I've been working on Slow Blues Feel Blues Solo Construction. Don't know if this will help, but...I think the answer is what he says at the beginning of each group of licks. The licks usually occur at chord changes--for instance from the I to the IV, or from the IV back to the I. In each of those cases, you're going to land on a note that works with that chord, the one you're changing to.

If you've got one of his slow blues solos (Solo #2 from 5 Easy Blues Solos is what I've got), you can see exactly how he's applying the principles throughout the 24 bars. I went so far as to write the different positions throughout that solo, and it's very obvious (to me, at least), that what he teaches in Slow Blues Construction is exactly what he's doing in Solo #2.

I've thought of applying this approach to the Shuffles he has in 5 Easy Blues Solos, but haven't gotten around to it. But the principles will probably work there, too.

Hope this helps.

Terry 856 981 8890