Blues licks in E

Note after Note · Level 4 (Intermediate) · study · Guitar, sheet music and tablature

A 12-bar blues chorus in E using the blues scale (E G A B♭ B D), triplets, slurs and blue notes.

▶ Play this piece with the interactive score

How to practise it

• Listen first: the site plays it while the score scrolls.
• Wait mode: the score waits for you at every note, at your own pace.
• Tempo challenge: play in time, with a score and a map of the bars you got right.
• The B♭ (“blue note”) is string 3, fret 3: slide or bend it towards B. Swing the eighths as in the shuffle.

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