Excerpt:
We’re going to use the A minor pentatonic scale and techniques that we’ve learned for expression, to learn a lick that can be played over any blues in the key of A. This lick will fit over all the blues changes which in this case are the chords A, D and E, but in future lessons we’ll learn to shape each lick to fit the specific progression in the blues form. This lick lasts for one measure (that’s a count of four beats)and involves the use of hammer-ons, bends, pull-offs and vibrato. We’re going to use just our first and third finger to play it. The reason for this is because that’s where these fingers fall when we play them in the first pentatonic scale form.