Hi. I'm Eric Madis with JamPlay.com.
In the last lesson we worked on the Jimmy Reed shuffle. We'll call it "Baby what you want me to do" for lack of a better title.
That's actually one of his better known tunes but he has a lot of other tunes that went the same way.
In this lesson we're going to focus on licks that you can play on that particular song and we're going to focus on licks in E for right now.
Now a lot of times people ask me :
"When you play ideas in blues, play a scale in blues or if you play licks do you play just over one chord
or do you play over all three chords as if they're separate keys?"
Actually, there are a number of different strategies in playing the blues
and it's important for players to learn how to play over the different types of strategies.
So one strategy would be to play everything as if it were in the key of one or the key of E and the other strategies are to play over the chords.
If you're playing by yourself which a lot of you will be, you're going to want to play over the chords.
That way you can actually hear the chord changes happening even if you don't have accompaniment.
So I'm going to teach you with that type of strategy in mind.