I’m a slow learner and Justin slow feeds me, seriously, the examples are illustrated so clearly even I can get it, love his teaching style, it’s really the best!

0:15 Overview 0:43 Lick #1 2:53 Lick #2 4:39 Lick #3 7:41 Lick #4 10:32 Lick #5 13:20 Closing Comments (Hope you don't mind Justin. I really need to keep going back to get it just right.)

Justin, I started playing only three months ago and with your help (and lots of practice) I have seen incredible progress in a relatively short time. I really got the bug now! I just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work you've put into your lessons, keep rock'n.

Ive been playing and learning for over 15 years and i can confirm Justin is one of OGs of youtube guitar vids..he and a few others paved the way

I'm just starting out with blues and WOW this lesson really helped me to get into those ""bluesy tones" and I absolutely love how simple the lesson was. Amazing job !!

i would have like to see you put those 5 licks together in that pentatonic scale for an example on what it could look like. love the vid

Well, I went over the lesson several times, then practicing it. Not feeling it. Not remembering the fingering patterns. A little frustrated and clangy with the play. Followed Justin's suggestion and pulled up a backing track in Am... Holy cow, I was playing some BLUES baby! My fingers were going to the patterns - mostly. It was really fun because they sounded so good to the music in the track. Thank You.

Why are you so good to us, Justin? Why? As ever, thanks so much.

I follow lots of KZfaq guitar tutors. They all have their own special qualities, but Justin I rate as the one whose lessons are easiest to follow.

I see alot of these licks in the solo of Money by Pink Floyd, pretty cool!

Snapped my high e string on the very first lick. FML

these are great. thank you so much, justin. if you don't think you have the strings to bend with just do slides instead. start where he says to start and instead of bending slide up a whole step or half depending. use your ear. i'm playing on acoustic and can't bend all the way so i just started sliding. works great. Thanks again, Justin!

I totally concur with all the sentiments expressed here, I’ve definitely learned a great deal. One thing I’d love to learn though is tone settings. There’s definitely value in taking the time experimenting but once I start adding everything together, gain, distortion, compression, delay, reverb, eq, etc etc…the variables increase exponentially.

Justin yoube taught me so much over the years. I have just got an electric and am following these top lessons. The scale practice is paying off for this lesson. Thanks for all you do and for your music. Smiling chords, Ric😊🎶

Slow and clear lesson on some foundation licks which are building blocks for o so many more. Excellent!!!

Hi Justin, just wanna say thank you for providing such valuable guitar study materials. It has been extremely helpful for me.

Thanks for such approachable licks! Very encouraging!

That guitar sounds so good.

Justin is a great teacher. Very close ups and slow. Great.

It's an amazing lesson,I tried and combined some of the licks together.

Justin - this is great and very helpful! Any chance you (or anyone who understands it) can please indicate the proper counting for the 5th lick? I’m having trouble playing it in time with the background track or a metronome. I suspect it’s the following, but I’m not sure: “one two trip let and three four”, but there doesn’t seem like enough time to play “and” before the third beat “three”. Thanks again!

Justin, in the Stevie Ray Vaughan BL-515 lesson, you walked up the A string and ended the lick with an e7 shaped strum. Will you be teaching this technique in the series? I have often heard guitarist play 9 or 10 lead notes, then end the lick with a chord. The question has come up during the live streams, but don't think it was conveyed correctly.Hope you are having fun, or looking forward to your holiday! Thanks

This is one of the best videos I've seen on licks! Nice and clearly explained. I'm going to learn them. Many thanks!

I've been wanting to learn the blues for so long.. came across your videos.. simply amazing! the best by far on youtube!

Thank you for this Justin! You really help me a lot with all the explanations and techniques and everything. I can play the blues now! Looking forward to your next lessons. Have a nice day! :)

Your explanations are great. I took the 3 licks and 2 notes of the pentatonic scale as a connection. I got a phrase.it's cool.I have never tried bending before only strumming. Because of Johnny B good by Chuck Berry intro that i like.

Just broke my string on the first bend

For beginners learning blues you should describe the root note and the turn around for each lick. Because most licks to all have turn arounds. Helped me a whole lot with my General playing with improvising when my fathers band members taught me about it simplicity of it. Pretty much helps with creativity if some need practice with creating new sounds and songs etc

“Why you working so hard” BB King reportedly said to Billy Gibbons when playing one of Billy’s guitars… I love your mojo teach’ but please don’t get the people stuck on .010s and Stevie Ray Vaughan gauge strings. I picked up the guitar to stop my arthritic fingers from seizure. I struggled with 10s until it was pointed out to me that most of my ‘heroes’ go light - Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons (.007), Peter Frampton, Tony Iommi, BB King, Chuck Berry all use/d .008s and let’s face it, they’ve done ok. There’s no harm at all using lighter strings, and wow, how much easier it’s made learning!

I encourage anyone to pause at 43 and before he shows you exactly how he did it, to go back and try to replicate each to the best of your ability. That's where real growth happens, not from step by step instructions and certainly not from tabs. Don't practice anything half way. Get out what your putting in. Trust me and millions of other guitar players when I say that learning and practicing by ear now, will reap unimaginable rewards for your music creatiing ability further down the road. You don't want to become that "musician" who can only play other people's songs that he got from tabs or from carbon copying step by step "lessons” that "teach" you to replicate rather than create. Don't be like I was at the beginning. A trained ear and just a very basic fundamental idea of how one would create similar licks will pay off in the future more than you know. I hope this saves someone from falling into the same trap I did. Learning to be a musician or a guitarist requires one to have an ear trained enough to be of value at least some use. I have discovered that a well tuned ear and just a basic understanding or at least idea of what's played is what divides the musicians, and guitar players from the guys who just claim to be because they play copies of songs they like. at the very least attempt to emulate what you're hearing. You don't want to learn to only copy it. Trust me please when I say You will never be satisfied with your "music" until you explore it and learn. No amount of "here, copy this now, exactly the way I'm showing you" ever beat " you should try to re create what you want to learn with your available senses first, just see how close you can come" you will gradually become more and more familiar with...really? No way? Ok Get this dude. ... Using your ears as a tool to serve you as a musician. I know. Stupid right? How could ears and a trained sense of hearing possibly have any benefit for any aspring musician ever? Why would you ever take the time to learn that........ 😱

Hi Justin. I've been watching you for so long. It's such a great lesson. Thanks for sharing. God bless you. Greetings from México.

Thanks!

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you beautiful sir!

This what i was looking for right there! Thank you Jesus

Thanks

Thank you ! You are the one who learn me to play ...Mary had a little lamb, SRV ! Thank you!

massive blister by #3...be back tomorrow! Awesome lesson as always

this is a really good one

Great teacher. Awesome my fingers hurt now hahaha

I will be blues man yet! great lesson as always

Thank you so much for your videos ... I find your lessons easy to fallow, you strick me a as a humble and skilled player

Nice licks and very well explained. Thank you Justin!!!!!!

Lick 3 rocks! Licks 4 and 5 too! I will be Hendrix one day!

I have that guitar at home so cool I can do this lol.

Great lesson, lick #3 (and it's variants) is a classic.

thank you so much justin!!! this is going to help with my blues improvising so much!!

Great video Justin!

Would be amazing to see this sort of thing for the major scale too. In my opinion the major scale is way more difficult to use convincingly.

Nice lesson Justin, gotta love blues licks!

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Excellent, thank you !

Great lession!

loads of love from India Justin

Excited to practice these! Loving this new series Justin!

finally something simple! thank you

Great great lesson! Thanks on more time!

Very useful, thanks.

Are these the same licks as lesson BL-013 ? I liked the tele, (the strat is thin to my taste). As always: great lesson.

I listen to these riffs, I hear Jimi Hendrix playing "Bleeding Heart" live, and all is well with the universe!

once again, great lesson! thanks

Very good. It's too easy to get caught up with a long list of licks. I find it much more helpful to build from fundamental licks, such as these. Okay, so this is not as good a lesson as the disappearing metronome. But that's because the disappearing metronome is one of the greatest lessons ever! If you guys haven't heard that one - please check it out. But other than those other worldly insights, this is top on. The Blue note licks and pattern 2 are as good. And yea, send him some darn money!!!

Show yes

I'm not a slow learner unless it comes to guitar and he's not making me feel bad and neglecting guitar he makes me want to play it right now It's 1 30

You are the BEST!!!!

Humphrey is right. I just gave $50. That's one lesson guys. C'mon. If we don't support people like Justin, we only deal with people like the utility company. Don't just like it. Give something. He's got to eat. Just buy him dinner for 2 nights - if you don't have it, then borrow it... Seriously. 1000 people like this lesson - if each gave $20 - 20 lousy bucks - 3 drinks.

Cool.. thank you. James blunt

I love you justin.

Great lesson ! Keep it up man

Lick #3 for me was harder than barre chords. It took me a year to play with confidence.

jesus christ i never realized just how much i suck at bending until i tried to play that first lick

Thank you very much !

Great lesson (and teacher).

Can I use the pinkie for the 4# lick?

Any tips on what strings to use? I changed my strings to .009. Now I can bend on acoustic.

Nice B.B. lick!

Just snapped all my strings on my guitar, then my neck broke in 3 pieces, I guess a bit too aggresive ?

great lesson

Any good reason why not to use the pinkie on lick 4?

thanks

Thank you!

Ooo that was fun, thanks!

You Da Man Sam! I mean Justin 🤣

I tried to learn the caged system and almost threw my guitar. I'm gonna learn all these and come up with something. Thanks for the life line.

Great lesson (well, a re-make of a lesson)! By the way, when you doing that Lady Writer lesson you mentioned on Facebook? Thanks

Can we combine these licks to make a melody?? Any combinations please.

great lesson , not as easy as it looks just takes loads of practices,

I most often end all my licks in root note. Is that alright ?

Hi Justin thanks for all the great lessons ! Could you tell me please how you get this specific guitar tone you are using for the blues lessons? Regards Mark

Justin lick #3 sounds choppy when I play it, basically the muting before going down to the other note. am I doing something wrong or will it get more fluid with practice?

Great vid

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When Justin takes his cap off, you'll see his exposed brain.

How can I mute while i'm bending, is dificult?

Are these all Am pentatonic?

Super

For the first lick, my strings don't bend so high. The strings seem very hard to bend. Is there a way to fix that?

Another great lesson, Thanks Justin! A quick question. Is it common to stop playing a lick when you make a mistake? I hear guitarist make mistakes all the time and just keep right on going like it never happened. But when I make a mistake, my first instinct is to stop playing, did you ever have that issue and if so how did you overcome it?

Hi great vids and you're helping me advance..... Can i ask how high is the action on your strings? Thanks.

why always chopping off the pinky ? use it instead. much more relaxed - especially for blues, eh ? you also should suggest 009 string gauge for bends like that...thex won't break trying. I know thers whole lot of moaning in the web but I was really thinkin about it. Anyway cool that you're spreading knowledge - very appriciated. keep on groovin!

just me or is trying to hear what he is saying difficult with a high note squealing constanty?