How to Play a Lead Blues Guitar Exercise

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Hi, I'm Rick Tobey on behalf of Expert Village and this is Blues Progressions Part 3. So the best way to learn how to play any kind of a scale on the guitar, a lead guitar scale, is first to learn what the notes are, what the scale is. And then to break it down into exercises so that you can learn how to play it fluidly and fluently. And it's almost like you're developing muscle memory in your hand or like each finger kind of remembers what to do after you've played it often enough. So the notes are this. You're playing the index finger on the A note, which is the fifth fret of the E string. The little finger goes to the eighth fret of the E string. The index finger then goes to the fifth fret of the A string, third finger on the seventh fret of the A string, first finger on the fifth fret of the D string, third finger on the seventh fret of the D string, index finger on the fifth fret of the G string, third finger on the seventh fret of the G string, first finger on the fifth fret of the B string, little finger on the eighth fret of the B string, index finger on the fifth fret of the E string and the little finger on the eighth fret of the E string. And it kind of forms a pattern. As you'll notice that your index finger is always on the fifth fret, your third finger is always on the third fret, but just on the strings in the middle. The A, the D and the G. And then the little finger is always on the fourth fret of the E string with the B string and the high E string. And so at first you would play the scale simply going up and then back down again. And in the next sections, we'll work a little bit more with that scale.

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