Learning blues rock licks

Whether its a classic 70's album or a piece of modern metal chaos, believe it or not, most styles of music are the same in the sense that they tend to share the same scales and or musical ideas. The pentatonic scales, both major and minor, are the very essence of blues and rock music and when you put them together, guess what you get? That’s right, blues rock licks.

These two scales are extremely common and easy to play as they both use a very similar box shape, and to anyone who is new at playing guitar, I would suggest making the pentatonic scales some of the first patterns that you learn.

Start by paying attention to the small things. For instance, listen to any classic rock album and after a while you will here the pentatonic scales coming through loud and clear, but really pay attention to what is going on. Are they bending a note or sliding up and down to a note? Or perhaps they are doing a combination of things.

Again, if you want to create some sweet sounding blues rock licks, you really need to study what can make them original and awesome sounding. Learning some pre-established guitar licks can help you get ideas to create original guitar licks.