Solo Lick 10:
A good way to learn how to put more feeling into your sound is trying to sound like a voice. Let's have a look at the example, The lick uses only the minor pentatonic ending with the root note. The vocal for this part could be something like "My baby left me, I cried all night". We play in the key of E, 12th fret.
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Solo Lick 11:
This example ends with a note from the major scale. This gives a different color to this lick. The same vocal as above now sounds really like a question: "My baby left me, what going on?". This lick has an open end, it needs to be continued. If we use the A-A-B Blues structure, now part B must follow like "If she can't make it, yeah, her sister Betty will do..."
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