Do you want to take your blues guitar licks to the next level? Are you tired of playing nonstop scale type blues licks? If you said yes, then this blues guitar lesson is for you.

So how do you start playing vocal-like blues guitar, that makes your audience stand up and listen, and keep them wanting more?

It starts by learning vocal licks on the guitar. You may say this will not help me to impress anyone with simple melodies, but YOU are wrong. All those flying speed licks you are playing don’t mean a thing if you can’t communicate a melody to a listener. The fastest licks in the world won’t mean a thing unless it is setup properly and executed in a manner in which it sounds good in context of the song.

Listen to any great guitar player, and listen to their melodies. They all have excellent rhythm, phrasing, and melodies within their chaotic solos.

SRV, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, Eric Clapton, Dimebag Darrell, Tom Morello, John Frusciante, and all your favorite guitar players play vocal-like guitar licks as solos, and guitar parts.

To start playing vocal-like guitar licks, listen to the greatest vocal melodies of all time. This would be the melodies of Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Beethoven, Ben E. King, Chopin, Ray Charles, and there’s so many more. By learning the vocals by these and many other artists, you will learn to think in a different way. Singers naturally phrase different than guitar players, and their vocals make for some tasty guitar licks. Don’t miss out on these awesome guitar licks. They will set you apart from your average guitar players. And you don’t want to be average do you?

Make a commitment today to learn 1 vocal melody a week, and in the next year you will have 52 melodies that shaped the world of music at your fingertips! This is powerful stuff that WILL make you stand out from the pack.

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