Riff 16 for Playing Blues Guitar in A

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What I'm going to show you now is some licks in the key of A, and playing blues licks, and it's basically only going to be in one scale, and you know, keeping the same positions, which is basically what blues lead playing is. The first lick I'm going to show you is basically one note, and it's very simple. The trick is putting your feel to it. And what I'm going to do is show you how to play that note and then add the little vibrato, which is just simply playing the lick and rocking the string back and forth. So to show you this one, I'm going to be on the tenth fret on the B string, and what I'm going to do here is go. And what I'm doing is simply picking one note, down picked, and as soon as I pick it, I start applying what they call vibrato. In this case, I'm using my first finger, kind of like in a B. B. King style, and you can make variations of it like playing more exaggerated, which is typically how it's played. And you know, just play with it, just go. Make it shorter, or longer, or more sustained. And when played over a nice, slow blues progression, it sounds really, really good.

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