F Blues Licks:

In this free blues guitar lesson we will learn several licks that we can play over a chord progression in F. This lesson is going give you several licks to play over this chord progression. These licks don't stay within one scale, but switch between Major and Minor Pentatonic as well as the blues scale. There are many ways to approach understanding these licks.

Let's start by reviewing a few scales. Let's take a look at the Fm Pentatonic Scale 1st Position:

Now let's look at the 2 position of the Fm Pentatonic Scale

And here is the F Blues Scale

Now let's use these scales to create some licks. Here is Lick #1:

The next lick uses the second position of the Fm Pentatonic scale.

Our last lick uses a mix of the Major, Minor Pentatonic, and Blues Scales

Now some adaptations from a few of the best in Blues.

This lesson teaches you a blues guitar lick in the Mississippi Delta style. We'll cover how to play this lick in detail and focus on a couple of techniques used.

Here is the tab for our Muddy Waters style lick:

Here is the tab for B.B. King Style Lick.

Here is the tab for Robben Ford Style Lick:

Here is the tab for our Johnny Winter Style guitar lick:

Here is the tab Eric Clapton Style Lick: