Songwriting & Beyond…

Because the good response we had for Andrew’s cool guitar tip (the previous blog post) he’s decided to give us another one!

I know some of you are well versed on your guitar… but some of you will really find this useful.

This time his post and video is about basic building block for blues soloing. This riff can be copies and then variations of it can be used.

Remember, you don’t have to write ‘blues’ style songs to incorporate these riffs! Far from it. You should use them in whatever style you write in. Also, you can play it on any style guitar (ie. electric, classical etc) and check out how it sounds.

So Andrew (from Guitar5Day.com) …thank you very much!

Again, please leave your thoughts here on the blog so we can get more from Andrew … please

Shamir

This video is about a basic building block for blues Soloing. This riff can be copied and then variations can be used.

The Riff is in A minor/a blues but if you slide it up or down the neck can be played in any key.

Here is the tab for the riff:

E|——–5—————-5———–
B|–8b10—–8–5——-5—–8—(b10)
G|—————–7b8—————–
D|————————————-
A|————————————-
E|————————————-

Fingers:
—–3—-1–4–1—3—1–1—4—(3)

Try playing the riff in three parts.

Try the first two notes. Get a good sounding bend. make sure you bend all the way up a whole step. In this case from G to A.

Next Play the short run from the second note (A on high E string) down to the D (7th fret G string)

Lastly Bend the D (7th Fret G string) and play the last three notes and the final bend.

The bend at the end is somewhat optional.

Play with this and come up with your own variations.

Andrew
Guitar5Day.com

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