Five Blues Licks with variations

[TheResonators]

i thought charlie brooker was a gamer not a guitarist

[muzaklover78]

genuine vibratto should be done with your fretting fingers, not the whammy bar.

[welshslash]

Ricky gervais

[lighteningboy]

Your Strat needs a fret job. And a new amp.

[FreeFavl]

Someone needs to install some Noiseless pickups...

[HollyDarkside012]

Ricky Gervais plays guitar?

[thisgodhateusall]

Hey Guy You Need a Noise Gate...=D



[vretenartyler123]

JACK BLACK!

[TheUberguitar123]

too bad theres was one dude that ruined that look

[anymacuk]

peter andre?

[valleysofneptune]

3 words- James Marshall Hendrix

[fleshlumpeater9]

Are u Jack Blacks bro by any chance????

[smert62]

Dear Sir,

I could not find "5 bules licks with varitaions" tab although you had explained. Would you please link of these tab in your WEB site...

Regards

[united19702]

a very nice video!!@#@#

[smert62]

Sorry ı did not find out tab of these licks on your above lick.?

[danbohane]

@smert62 its there ive just checked. Look in the box underneath the vid. (this used to be on the right but you tube has changed its layout since then) expand the text, click on the link and the scroll down to either intermediate or advanced, its there. thanks. dan

[stratometer]

yuk

[aleguitar12345rock]

best

[curlymolly70]

He's like Ricky Gervais and every male hairdresser in the world.

Good tho

[marcosvidal]

I really love UK accent!

[vazon69]

Horrible, horrible over processed tone - play clean, please sir! One of the very first lessons any guitarist needs to learn is that if it doesn't sound good clean, it's not going to sound good processed! Playing clean helps develop a personality in the playing, improves general technique, bending and sustain. Add all the processing you,like after you have developed the lick, but learn it straight first!

[Dreamdancer11]

@vazon69 One mans "overprocessed tone" is anothers mans paradise...It may strike as a surprise to you but not all favor clean playing.....plus to develop good technique you need equal clean and distorted playing....cause if you play only clean...and try to play distorted... you wont be able to mute a single thing....things will ring from every direction and you ll sound sloppy.

[ryano50]

@Dreamdancer11

Man, that's stupid

[Dreamdancer11]

@ryano50 And what that might be?

[MennoGuitar]

Its more metal or blues than blues :P lol

[Bigboss1432Lol]

You got some badass hair bro. NO JOKE. If I were to ever cut my hair, I'd cut it like yours.

[xXironraiderXx]

thats gotta be the shiniest fret board in life! lol

[emanhacker]

ty dan for such great vast blues ruff vudeis bless u i thank u alot

[acousticgrooven]

Nice accent!!!!Kicks major arse, along with your lick!.. Most obliged in saying so dear sir.. ahah I learnt them all ..thanks merci koo na ma ta ta

[randy8087]

would like to meet you love uk guitars learning from you god bless the stones and eric capton

[danbohane]

@randy8087 thanks alot

[mcagnin]

I like the way you teach the blues, you're the best. I'm from Spain. Could you explain more about call and response? Thanks

[danbohane]

do you mean question and answer phrasing ?

[mcagnin]

Yes, I meant that... I don't understand one thing, answers always land on the root? Can there be questions that finish on the root note? (I was wondering if a lick landing on the root but on the last part of a triplet that continues on a downbeat can be thought as a question)... Thank you.

[danbohane]

I think threre is no absolute answer to this, usually an answer will land on the root because there a kind of certainty in that .questions will often raise in pitch, questions descend in pitch. A small bend at the end of the question is good because it sounds un resolved. I guess we are trying to mimic human speach. think how you would ask a question and answer one in spanish, how the lanquage 'sings. rules are just guides they also get broken by creative people.

[brossej07]

@mcagnin I'll just jump in on this one...

the idea of call and response (also known as question and answer, as well as a bunch of other terms) is to have a "conversation" with the other guitarist(s), and have some fun with it too. Often you will see people laughing and joking around with the c&r parts in songs, mainly because they just screw around with some notes and stuff.... it is really fun to do.

[brossej07]

@mcagnin The easiest way to do call and response is to pick a number of bars (let's say, 2 bars) and then go back and forth between people. For example, I start by playing a two bar chunk of solo, kind of like a statement ("Hello!") Somebody then answers with a little 2 bar riff ("Hi, there!")

A good way to "talk" with each other is to tie on your part with theirs, as if it was a continuation of their line. This leads to effective and fun c&r

What I described above is known as "trading two's".

[crazyjulio387]

where did you learn these licks?  did you transcribe them from a particular artist?

[danbohane]

they are all based on bits I have worked out fromm bb king, jimmy page, carlos santana, stevie ray vaughan an many others.

[puertoricanfl15]

nice guitar

[Greebo111]

I'd call them 'licks' not 'riffs'.

[danbohane]

yes I suppose a riff tends to repeat its self

[Greebo111]

I'm not knocking you though ! I think what your doing is good thing. sharing what you know for others. my guitar is very similar to yours. Its the 50th anniversary strat. exact same colour as yours.

[Sammyy46]

Hey I mkight try some of these riffs (By the way I do know what riffs are now...) Dan!

Sam

[tobykuhnert1]

nice ideas! will definitely try some of these riffs

Thanks for putting this vid on :)

Toby