This particular tutorial provides a detailed, stepbystep overview of how to play a blue scales improvisation. Essential blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, and rock n roll licks for the uke ebook written by lil rev. Plus there are tons of extras common chord progressions, scales, uke history, recommended listening, information on uke builders, blogs, websites, and more. Now you f cant have the car cause you didnt work a lick. A huge advantage that tablature has over standard music notation is that there is very little learning curve. Blues ukulele is a collection of 16 blues standards arranged for the ukulele by fred sokolow. Adding licks sheet music jam track 70bpm jam track 100bpm this is a valuable skill to develop whether youre playing blues music by yourself, playing with a band, or accompanying a singer. Plucking or strumming the strings produce vibrations. Blues guitar lessons burninguitar how to play blues guitar. It works faster too, but i think it works best played at a slower tempo.
So jontom meets the needs of both auditory and visual learning styles. Essential blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, and rock n roll licks for the uke. In ukulele tablature, the four lines each represent one of the ukuleles strings. Fortunately, the internet is awash in free, highquality uke lessons, like this one from youtubes preeminent tropical tutor, ukulele mike. Ukulology ukulele scales common scales free pdf download. Theres lots more blues stuff in my how to play blues ukulele ebook if these are your jam. In this lesson, were going to take the intermediate 12bar blues riff and learn how to put some lead licks into it. A collection of 16 blues standards arranged for the ukulele by fred sokolow. You can find all blues ukulele songs on ukutabs right here on this page, ordered by popularity. Meaning that the shape of any chord, scale or melody that you learn.
Mar 29, 2012 tabs for 5 blueslicks on one sheet pdf the blues licks of the earlier posts played in a 12 bar pattern. I cant quite make out what strings you are playing for this. Ukulele scales and modes by 7 mustknow ukulele scales in standard tuning gcea. All of the open strings 1st and 2nd strings at the 3rd fret 3rd string at the 2nd and 3rd fret or, you can bend the string at the 2nd fret to get eb. Ukulele tricks is a useful site to pick up some free lessons and resources but they do offer paid lessons if you want to get access to more advanced techniques all in one place.
Download a free pdf of blues scales on every root for the ukulele. Blues ukulele by softcover with cd sheet music for. Theres a heck of a lot of ukulele material on youtube that focuses purely on. See all 5 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. The last two bars of a blues is called the turnaround. Ukutabs is your true source to find chords and tabs for all of your favorite songs. David bruce has a growing reputation as a composer, with commissions from carnegie hall, the san diego symphony and the royal opera house, london. While you can find most any song, be aware that the quality of these tabs vary with the skill of the. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read 101 ukulele licks.
The great thing about a ukulele or a guitar is that it is a graphic instrument. That is, the main body of a song follows a set pattern of chords over 12 bars of music that is repeated over and over. Jun 19, 20 last week we looked at using the c minor pentatonic scale to play a solo on a blues in the key of c. Essential blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, and rock n roll licks for the uke paperback jan. Please practice playing the solo along with the backing.
The vast majority of contemporary blues music is based on what is termed a 12bar format. The scales are provided in tablature and standard notation. How to play blues ukulele ebook covering blues licks, riffs and soloing. The basic structure of the blues uses 3 chords, in 12 bars, then repeats. He also happens to run red balloon technology ltd, the company behind. Over the past few weeks weve been looking at using chord shapes and a fretboard chart to explore music theory. Play them as they are, change the rhythm, move them around, use the.
I ve picked licks that are rock, blues, folk, pop and hawaiian in style so. For the turnaround of this song ive used a very common blues turnaround riff that works well over the progression c, f, c, g7 i, iv, i, v practice. Bell bottom blueseric clapton chords, tab, lyrics and. Guitar learn how to play 3 solos for 12 bar blues in e. How to play a blues scale improvisation on the ukulele. Essential blues, jazz, country, bluegrass, and rock n roll licks for the uke paperback january 1, 2011 by lil rev author 4. Because of that, its sensible to use our index finger to.
This book is a collection of 30 of the best riffs to play on ukulele. Notice there are no notes played at the first fret. If you like lucas licks, check out his 10 ukulele lick series. Ukulele basics the uke the ukulele is an acoustic instrument consisting of a hollow body and anywhere between four to eight strings. The blues had a baby and they named it rock n roll. Each genre has ten licks, adding up to fifty in total.
This particular tutorial provides a detailed, stepbystep overview of how to play a simple g blues shuffle pattern. He has written a number of pieces for beginners in a jazz and blues styles, which appear on the site. There are lots of usersourced tab sites that get a ton of traffic, such as the massive ukulele and even massiveer. Ukulele players all over the world have direct access to ukutabs its large and completely free song archive which is constantly being updated with new songs. Comprehensive guide to blues ukulele with 123 chord progressions, riffs, playing techniques and solos. Play them as they are, change the rhythm, move them around, use the same shapes. This songbook provides a nice spoonful of blues by artists from the fifties chuck berry and elvis, the sixties cream, the seventies zz top, acdc, led zeppelin and deep purple, the eighties stevie ray vaughan and the nineties eric claptons acoustic cover of bo diddley. The result can be pleasing to the ear, and can even push the. I really like this slow blues lick you recently put on the site. Bell bottom blueseric clapton chords, tab, lyrics and learning tips blues guitar song, lyrics, chords, tablature, playing hints with downloadable pdf for printing. Complete tab is available with purchase of 21 guitar lessons. Beginner to advanced, free blues guitar video lesson with tabs.
On this site, run by friendly fred, there is an excellent blog post showing you how to play some easy ukulele blues licks, including some in a 12 bar. Here is a nice blues lick which sounds good when played fairly slow. See all 7 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Blues and lick fills ukulele tutorial blues lesson. As the original version of this song is in bb ive made this recording to play along with. Ukulele tabs are an easy way to learn the notes of a melody, even if you cant read music. Some songs may have several different patterns to give them a bit of variety, but the guts of the song will normally be based on a set chord pattern for every 12 bars of music. The notes in chords, the difference between major and minor chords and more. Here are five licks adapted from blues gods to inspire your own solos. It doesnt have the latest changes to the intro or the.
With just fours lines and some numbers, anybody regardless of musical knowledge can make sense of uke tablature. Pentatonic blues licks pattern 3, pattern 4, pattern 5, pattern 1, pattern 2, modal licks aeolian, locrian, ionian, dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian licks are short musical phrases which form useful elements for improvising guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop. You can play any of these notes, in any order, to create a blues solo in the key of a. Because the ukulele and guitar have so much in common, uke players like me, who started on guitar, are inclined to adapt their guitar skills to the uke. You will have heard the sound over and over again, in nursery rhymes, folk songs, and classical music. John lee hooker relocated to detroit and invented the boogie, which has resounded in blues, rock, and pop styles ever since.
This image shows the standard 12 bar blues progression using roman numerals. Five pentatonic licks in pattern 3 for electric guitar solos in the styles blues, rock and pop with music notes, tab tablature and sound guitar. A collection of 50 ukulele licks is a resource that has been created by the musician luca tomassini also known as jontom. Posted in blues brothers, blues charts, blues riffs, blues tabs, blues uke, tabs she caught the katy updated chart blues brothers. There are lots of usersourced tab sites that get a ton of traffic, such as the massive and even massiveer. Ive included the string names to the left of the line to show you. Ive used some of the easier licks for teaching intermediate level playing kids of eleven to thirteen years of age.
Meaning that the shape of any chord, scale or melody that you learn in open position can be moved up the neck to. In this oneofakind book with audio, you get over a hundred authentic licks notated for the ukulele in standard notation and tablature. It is typically used mainly in the blues major or minor but also in plenty of modern rock and pop. But what happens when we play a blues in a different key. The resource is is divided into five genres of music. Language sitemap guitars licks pentatonic blues 15. Pentatonic blues licks 15 pattern 3 in a click graphic to play audio deactivate arrows on your keyboard for page navigation with alt k. Buy the complete package and youll have all fifty instructional videos and pdf tabs for each lick. This image demonstrates how you would find the i, iv, and v chords in the key of a using the a major scale. In this 4k ukulele tutorial youll learn a great ukulele blues lick in the key of a. Blues scale in a the diagram below shows the notes of the blues scale in a, in the first position. Last week we looked at using the c minor pentatonic scale to play a solo on a blues in the key of c. It is built from the pentatonic minor scale, which has the diminished fifth, or the famous blue note. In this oneofakind book and audio pack, you get over a hundred authentic licks notated for the ukulele in standard notation and tablature.
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