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How To Improvise Blues Guitar - These phrasing tips could instantly make you a better player!
Blues guitar improvisation: On the surface, it may appear easy, but how to you make your phrases really sound like the blues?
A few years ago, I discovered an exercise that involves breaking down the three most common subdivisions in a classic blues shuffle and building mini limitation exercises with them, in order to greatly improve your on-the-spot improvisation and musical decision making. This approach can also help you create your own blues licks!
The idea is to initially play a constant stream of notes using a given subdivision. If you’re able to play unbroken phrases with each subdivision, those all-important spaces you leave won’t be because you’ve lost your way or have run out of ideas!
If that all looks like word salad, I promise it’ll make more sense in the video.
This is as much a phrasing and improvisation exercise as it is a fretboard navigation exercise.
I let the backing track run throughout the video and at the end, so you can try out some of the ideas for yourself.
Please note that there is no TAB for this lesson as all of the licks are improvised (including the mistakes!)
Have fun!
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