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How to Play a Blues Riff: Part 1

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Part of the video series: How to Learn Blues Chord Progressions: Vol 3

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play a blues riff in this free video clip on music theory and guitar techniques.

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Rick Tobey Rick Tobey has been playing guitar for over 30 years. He plays professionally as a solo blues artist and in his band. His blues band won the 2007 Cape Fear Bl... read more

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How to Play a Blues Riff: Part 1

Hi, I'm Rick Tobey on behalf of Expert Village and this is Blues Progressions Part 3. Now we're going to incorporate what we've learned through doing the exercises and the hammer and pull techniques. And I'm going to demonstrate how to use the blues scale to make a, some blues riffs are actually some notes that are strung together in a bluesy kind of way. Now this is always a very good and popular bluesy kind of thing. So, it's a good riff to learn. I'm starting on the index finger on the E string, fifth fret, using the little finger on the E string on the eighth fret. Going back to the fifth fret and then going up an octave from that note to the A, which is played with the third finger on the seventh fret of the D string. And in the next section, we'll play a few more blues riffs in A.

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