This is an Intermediate lesson. It is assumed that you are familiar with the 12 bar blues progression.

Scenario: you know some pentatonic scales and licks, but you want ideas on how to use good sounding licks at the right place in the progression. BINGO! This lesson is for you.

The focus of this lesson is to learn 24 blues licks, but with a twist. For every 2 measures of the chord progression, you will learn 4 licks. So for measures 1 and 2, you learn 4 licks; then for measures 3 and 4, you learn another 4 licks, and so on. The idea is that you can then choose ANY of these 4 licks for those 2 measures in question. This is a good way to build a solo. Just take any one lick from measures 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10, 11/12, and you have ready-to-go solo. As you can see, the solo would consist of 6 licks, since each lick spans 2 measures = 12 bars. Have a look at my demonstration in the video.

Licks Guide

Licks 1 – 4  in the PDF are for bars 1 – 2
Licks 5 – 8  in the PDF are for bars 3 – 4
Licks 9 – 12  in the PDF are for bars 5 – 6
Licks 13 – 16  in the PDF are for bars 7 – 8
Licks 17 – 20  in the PDF are for bars 9 – 10
Licks 21 – 24  in the PDF are for bars 11 – 12