The Secret to Lead Guitar

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Blues scale in 5 positions

When I was 15 years old one of my brothers' friends was playing some cool blues riffs on his guitar and I asked him -- how do you do that?

He tore an empty cigarette packet down one side, opened it out and, grabbing a ballpoint pen, he Scrawled down five grid patterns with little circles on them and handed it to me.

Learn those! Was all he said.

At the time I had a feeling like I had just been initiated into the Inner circle of Lead Guitar Players.

Now, nearly 40 years on, I know that that feeling was accurate. My lead guitar playing really took off from that point on!
Since then I have made it part of my life's mission to pass on that initiation!

But you're lucky - Look I've even written out the diagrams neatly for you!
Let's go through them one at a time.

We're learning a system that will enable us to play in any key, but for the sake of keeping things simple to start with we are going to learn all five positions in the key of E.

OK so those are the 5 positions of the Blues scale in E. Learn those really thoroughly and start using them as a warm-up exercise.

If you want to really develop fast as a lead guitarist then check out the Secret Guitar Teacher's Gym Pentatonic Scale Drill -- the pentatonic patterns are only one note different so you will soon figure out how to apply the same principle to the blues scale.

OK See you in the next lesson

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Closed Caption:

yeah
when I was 15 years old
I heard one of my brothers friends
playing some really mean blues lead
licks on this guitar
how do you do that I lost him Sir
you need to call it an old cigarette
packet and open it out and with a
ballpoint pen he scrolled out five grid
pattern little circles on and just
handed it to me learn those was always
said at the time I felt like I just been
initiated into the secret inner circle
lead guitar players and now nearly 40
years on record that feeling was just
about right
because since that point in time I have
to say the whole subject to lead guitar
opened up for me and tore intents and
purposes
I never look back and since then I've
made it part of my life's mission to
pass on that sense of initiation
but you're lucky look I've even written
out the diagrams and neatly for you
let's go from them one at a time when
learning a system that will enable us to
play in any k but for the sake of
keeping things simple to start with
we're going to learn each of these five
positions in the key of E major will
talk about how we change to other keys
now here's the first position in e first
of all I'll show you using the open
strings to play this position here we
line our fingers up
1 2 3 like that first thing with the
first fret second finger second fret
third thing with the 3rd fret and
starting with a six-string we play open
three next ring
code blue
one
next string
next string open
you ready
straight okay three
next ring no problem
three
then come back down on you
three string open
for you
the
you
hmm
I'm open boo
next ring -
1m
an extra 30
so that
yeah
yeah
ok now that position could also be
played up here at the 12th fret
that's because these notes are repeated
an octave higher
of all the open strings e a d e be e
so in this position we use all four
fingers because we haven't got there yet
the open strings and we think what form
mmm
hmm
three
next string em
30
next string 1 2 3 4 next ring
for next string 1 full coming back
warm next thing down full one
next ring full 3131 next ring three two
one extra for one
so that's
the second position overlaps the first
so it starts here
an important thing with this position to
in order to maintain our one finger per
fret rule which is essential for
efficient fingering discipline and start
with your second finger on this first
note of the position now this note is at
fret 3 on the sixth string so second
finger third fret bottom string
we then finger soon and these are finger
numbers remember non-friend numbers we
figure to form the next string 1
full next ring on em
all mmm
next ring one
hmm
three
and
back straight to me
for you
40
coming down -
straight for you
hmm
string 3
- whoo
one
next ring for one
next great one
next string 4
so that's
hmm
the third position is a little bit
trickier
this is one position where a lot of
people are very tempted to compromise
that the fingering and it's important to
say that when you drilling scales you
finger them in one particular why
according to a certain discipline when
you're actually playing with the scales
is absolutely fine i think to compromise
that fingering in the interests of sort
of artistic versatility if you like but
it is important to have a card base
pattern that you can always get back to
one is absolutely conditioned into into
your bye-bye hours of drilling
so I'm going to strongly suggested again
we start this pattern on the second
finger reserving this finger for the
note that appears on that the third
string so with your hand lined up like
this with your second finger third fret
5 on the sixth string we start by going
fingers to three more
next string - OH
next ring -
4mm
next great one
for this point we move that whole head
up one position
so we're now playing threat five on the
B string with our first finger right one
moving on one
so
three coming back to
one
next string for one and shit the home
position for one
42 m
42
more mmm
so that's
mmm
yeah
hmm
mmm
the temptation to play it like this
hmm
there's only one because that means we
want to pull out there and stretch that
finger to reach that note
always harder especially at high speed
to play smoothly when you have to
stretch your hand
that is a smoothly when you have to
shrink your hand in to accommodate these
these changes
so that's the rationale behind one of
the first things like a slightly awkward
fingering and that finger will help you
strengthen your little finger which is
always a good thing anyway
so in the fourth position
we're back to using our first finger to
kick off on and were fret 7 on the sixth
string now for some of reason this
position although physically bit easier
and also proves a bit tricky for most
people to learn
so follow it carefully again starting
their first finger per fret 7 will go
one for next ring 14 next string 1 2 3
hmm
next string 13
hmm
next three to four
yeah
next ring 14
coming down one
next ring for two
strength 31 m Xtreme 3 2 1
hmm next ring for one
next string for one
so worth noting that the fingering 1441
applies to three of the strength
in the middle we've got a little brought
the ghost 133
and then a slightly awkward - that's
about that often catches people house
so putting all that together with God
mmm
so finally the fifth position
we're going back onto a second finger
because we're reserving as the finger
for these notes here so second finger
temp fret on the sixth string
yeah
this position as long as we keep my
finger discipline this is relatively
straightforward it's almost done
symmetrical this pattern arm so threat
10 second finger on the sixth string we
stopped going to for next string 24 next
ring 14
next ring 14
next string 2 3 4
yeah
next ring 24
coming down
down the string for free too
down the street for one string for one
down a string for two down string 4 -
so that's
yeah
notice but that brings us back that
position to the note II here at the 12th
fret and so that links us back to the
first position and we're reminded on the
diagram you can see it says either open
or twelve fret so as demonstrated
earlier
it's the same pattern is played at the
open
threats but we have to finger all these
notes of red 12
then in theory you could carry on moving
up second position
mmm
the position and so on
so you fall off the end of the day it's
our but in terms of drilling
it's fine just to go through each of the
five positions
that's the important thing so those are
the five positions of the blue scale in
a make sure you learn those really
thoroughly really commit them to memory
and then start using them as a warm-up
exercise that will look something like
this
for as many times as you like the more
automatic you get it the better you
better you know these patterns
the more free you are to express
yourself when you're playing because you
just won't have to think about where
these notes are if you want to develop
at the fast as possible right as a lead
guitarist
I really strongly recommend getting over
to the guitar Jim section of the site
and checking out the drill on pentatonic
scale patents pentatonic scales are only
one no different from the blue scale
pattern week we just looked at
so you'll soon be able to figure out how
to use the same principle to drill these
scales
ok well i hope you have some fun with
that and i look forward to seeing you in
the next lesson where we'll look at how
to use these same patterns in all sorts
of different keys