Killer Blues Bending Trick | Guitar Lick of the Week | From Chicago Music Exchange (Patreon)

And welcome to another lead guitar tutorial. In today's session, I'll be showing you a useful example of how you can implement a "super-bend" into your pentatonic licks. Let's get started!

Section #1 - The Am Pentatonic Scale

Our lick of the week is drawn primarily from the "E shape position" of our Am pentatonic scale; however, our super-bend is situated in the D position, commonly referred to as the upper-extension. Let's memorize both ways of playing this very common scale.

Section #2 - The Lick of the Week

Our lick of the week makes use of many popular lead techniques; notice how ascend up the scale starting on the 5th interval (E), before hitting a "super-bend" on the same note an octave up. From there we will perform a glissando or slide, and descend back down the scale, stacking our notes until resolving back on the root note, A.

Section #3 - Chords this lick can be played over

In the associated video, I performed a 1.4.5 blues progression using dominant 7th, and 9th chords. These are professional sounding chord shapes that every blues, jazz and funk player should learn and master.

Try jamming over this funky, blues backing track!