Oh hi. Eric Madis here from JamPlay.com.
Last time we worked on Memphis lead exercises so that we could play over an entire twelve bar blues shuffle in the key of E.
We actually put together a solo utilizing those different chord changes and playing over the separate chords individually.
In this lesson I'm going to show you more licks for the chord of A.
Now it is true that you can play a lot of the licks that I've shown you in E
and play them over the E, the A and the B chords if you have accompaniment.
However, if you don't have accompaniment the licks in themselves only define the E chord.
So you wouldn't be able to just, if you were playing by yourself, play those licks over the A chord or over the B chord
and still define the chord changes as you would need to.
So what I like to try to do is show people ideas that emphasize certain chord changes so that if their playing by themselves or even if they're playing
in a group, especially in a small group, that when they play their lick it helps define the chord changes that they're playing over at that time.
So we're going to do a couple different licks in A that I think you'll really like.