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Eclectic Blues Licks is a preview video lesson series for Jeff McErlain‘s upcoming course, 50 Eclectic Blues Licks You MUST Know. Check in every week for a new eclectic blues lick video lesson, and be on the lookout for the full course with tab, jam tracks and more in the near future. Also check out Jeff’s other course, 50 Blues Licks You MUST Know — it’s killer! Subscribe for updates!

Jeff Beck has always been a favorite of mine, OK, he is my favorite guitar player. Besides constantly improving he is the King of being subtle on the guitar. The control he has over the instrument is a constant source of inspiration to me and something I strive for all the time. If you watch him play you see that most of the tones he get are from the guitar itself just using his hands, guitar controls, and of course the vibrato bar. If you are not familiar with Beck’s large body of work I suggest you RUN out and but some, or hit the download button. Some of my favorite tracks are “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” and his take on Mingus’s “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, and “Where Were You”. These tunes are classic examples of what can be done on the guitar with dynamics. Some of my favorite playing by Beck can be heard on Roger Water’s 1992 “Amused To Death” recording, particularly the tunes “Ballad of Bill Hubbard” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VQq0wC_72Y) and “Three Wishes” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S-XqryBPUg). Hopefully that will get you started on one of the best guitar players out there with some not so well know gems as well.

In this lick, I am trying to use some of those techniques I have picked up from Beck. Some cool bar stuff, fingers instead of the pick, some cool legato stuff. All these techniques together really add to how much inflection you can add to a line, to me this is what it is all about. The emotional musical connection that you can make with the guitar is often helped along by just someone pointing it out, like Jeff Beck did for me.

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Eclectic Blues Licks is a preview video lesson series for Jeff McErlain‘s upcoming course, 50 Eclectic Blues Licks You MUST Know. Check in every week for a new eclectic blues lick video lesson, and be on the lookout for the full course with tab, jam tracks and more in the near future. Also check out Jeff’s other course, 50 Blues Licks You MUST Know — it’s killer! Subscribe for updates!