These slow blues guitar licks are from Anthony Stauffer’s 50 Slow Blues Guitar Licks You MUST Knowcourse in which you’ll not only learn the lick itself but also where it fits within a standard 12-bar progression. Anthony has organized the collection into five groups representing the five most common styles of slow blues tunes.
Slow Blues Lick #16: Trainwreck Bends
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Another signature Stevie Ray Vaughan technique is to bend multiple strings at once. Doing this creates a harsh, screeching sound, similar to the sound of a train sliding down the track with its brakes locked. It is possible to make this noise sound musical, and you’ll learn how to do that in this lick.
Slow Blues Lick #19: Retrace Your Steps
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Stevie Ray Vaughan inherited the intensity of Albert King, but the speed of Jimi Hendrix. This lick is a bit more advanced than some of the others in this course. We start it in a familiar way, but before we finish, there’s a jump back to the high E string followed by a very fast descent.
Slow Blues Lick #32: Clear Some Space
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Freddie King’s vibrato was a force of nature. In this lick, the first few bends seem to clear away the clouds, opening up some space for the last bent note with vibrato. This is another example of Freddie mixing major and minor blues together in the same lick. Played during bar #9, we end the lick right as the chord progression drops back to the IV chord at bar #10.
Slow Blues Lick #45: Signature Note
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Here’s a lick that captures a signature element of Johnny Winter’s style. It starts in a familiar way, but there’s a distinct peak right in the middle before we descend. This peak is created with one note, giving the lick that signature Johnny Winter sound.
Slow Blues Lick #48: Home Stretch
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Here’s a lick from Johnny Winter that fits so perfectly with the chord progression, you’ll be tempted to use it every time you hit the V chord at bar #9. We’ll exploit the momentum of the chord changes with a wicked slide that drops us right onto the IV chord at bar #10.
Slow Blues Lick #50: Brick House
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For the last lick in this course, we’ll learn a rhythm guitar part that will fit over the backing track for this group of licks. It involves some single note walking patterns, along with some sliding two-note chords (sliding 6ths) to accent the I chord.
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