"I am a beginner guitarist, but I want to say to anybody that reads these newsletters, the guitarists on the web are the best. They have helped me to get tons better. I am writing this to ask if anybody that reads these newsletters has scales or blues licks they could E-mail them to me. Y'all are the best whoever does the Newsletters"
Sent in by Johnny Porter - gitfiddle75@yahoo.com

>>>>>>>>> REPLY - Have a look at:

12-bar Blues, theory
www.GuitarSite.com/HowToPlay/guitar-lessons/guitar01.txt

also, in the "How To Play" section:
www.GuitarSite.com/HowToPlay/blues_licks1.tab
www.GuitarSite.com/HowToPlay/blues_licks2.tab
www.GuitarSite.com/HowToPlay/blues_turnarounds.tab

How about this site?
"Eric Clapton - Slowhand Blues Guitar"
www.spot.fho-emden.de/guitar
Freestyle Blues guitar tutorial with tabulature, techniques, licks, songs, EC's guitars and EC songbooks

Great stuff here, for example, this extract from: "Solo guitar - the Blues scale"
www.spot.fho-emden.de/guitar/soloscal.htm

When you want to play a solo, you have to know which notes you can play. This set of notes is called a scale. It must fit to the song and the chords, not all notes on your fretboard would give a nice sound. Looking in a music book you'll find dozens of different scales with cryptic names like dorian, lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, phrygian scale.

But don't worry, we need only one scale to play the basic Blues! The scale is called "pentatonic". That's because it exist of only 5 (penta = 5) different notes. We start with the minor pentatonic scale in E (there's also a major pentatonic scale, which sounds not so "sad", but for a deep basic Blues we'll take the minor).

Here it is, noted in tab (E is the key, that means the scale begins with E):

E I---------------------0-3-I
B I-----------------0-3-----I
G I-------------0-2---------I
D I---------0-2-------------I
A I-----0-2-----------------I
E I-0-3---------------------I

E minor pentatonic scale

You start with the open E-string; that's (of course) E. When you reach the 2nd fret of the D-string, it's also E (play both at the same time, you will hear it). Playing the open strings is also the E scale. That means you can play simple rhythm guitar and even small solos with only open strings! No need to take your left hand...(sorry, lefthanders)... article continues at:
www.spot.fho-emden.de/guitar/soloscal.htm

Minor Pentatonic Scales
members.aol.com/MBMusic98/pent1.html

Dominant Pentatonic
members.aol.com/MBMusic98/dompent.html

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The Acoustic Blues and Slide Workshop
www.guitarseminars.com

Guitar Solos, Blues Licks, Real Audio Soundclips
www.telecaster.demon.co.uk/soundclips4.htm

Lick of the Week
www.chatlink.com/~lraven/lickof.htm