It’s not about playing faster, though I can all but guarantee that you will play faster if you want to… Rhythm Figures For Blues Lead Guitar is all about having control when you play your leads… That, my friend, is the keys to the kingdom that no one talks about.Īctually, if you have followed my teaching for any length of time, you know that I talk about this all the time…īut it wasn’t until now that I had everything about syncopation, counting rhythms, and actually using those rhythms in one place…Īnd it’s in a “workshop” environment where every minute you spend on it pays you back with interest the next time you go to improvise. Your ability to push and pull the time, to utilize syncopation and have dynamic variety within your licks and solos… No, I mean the rhythms that are within your licks and solos. Rhythm and Lead guitar are no different… and that will become apparent as you improve…
I don’t mean rhythm guitar, because again, your favorite guitar players tend to play the same chord shapes… Which brings us back to the elephant in the room… that other thing you can improve upon that nobody wants to talk about… So, it’s not like they have some secret scale you don’t know… learning more scales and more patterns has never been the path to great blues solos.
It might be difficult to put your finger on the exact differences between your favorite blues guitar players…īut there’s no doubt those differences are there, and instantly recognizable.Īnd 99.5% of the time, they’re all playing a pentatonic scale… If someone asked you how you can instantly recognize Stevie Ray Vaughan’s playing… what would you say?