Bored with just playing the minor pentatonic scale? Learn how to use arpeggios in a blues for a more sophisticated sound.
This will give you licks and ideas for playing over a 12 bar A7 blues.
This is a blues guitar lesson aimed at the person who knows how to play the A minor pentatonic scale but is looking for ways of using other notes in order to spice up their playing. This is not intended as a beginner lesson, though the licks are fairly easy to play.
Running order:
0:00-0:40 Intro
0:40-1:06 Example Solo includes all 8 licks
1:20-5:12 Arpeggios
5:12-15:40 Each lick taught individually
Each lick includes onscreen tab and the arpeggio section includes both tab and neck diagrams.
Tip: Pause the video with the neck diagram showing!
The backing track played over is a 12 bar blues and is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yDlFuqqrAU
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Marc Ellison is the guitarist with Northbound acoustic blues band
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