Lick Library - Stuart Bull's Electric Blues In 6 Weeks - Weeks 1-6 (6 DVD Set)

Welcome to the Electric Blues in 6 Weeks guitar course. This course is designed to focus your practice towards realistic goals achievable in six weeks. Each week provides you with techniques, concepts and licks to help you play and understand blues soloing at a manageable easy to follow pace. Three licks in the style of a featured artist are taught each week to help you towards playing in real musical situations and develop an ear for the differences between players.
If you have been frustrated or intimidated by other educational material this course is for you. You will see the improvement as you work through each week taking small steps, occasionally looking back and being surprised by how far you have come.
Practice can sometimes be difficult with the player often being unsure which material to work on. With the Electric Blues in 6 Weeks guitar course the material is presented to you in easy to absorb sections which progress in a sensible logical order. Stick with this course and I guarantee you will improve.

Week one includes: Pentatonic scale in the first position, Blues scale in the first position, Blues bends, String bending, Vibrato, Combining string bending and vibrato, Blues scale licks, three licks in the style of David Gilmour.

Blues scale in the 1st position (7:57)
Blues bends (8:19)
String bending (7:15)
Vibrato (3:46)
Combining bending & vibrato (3:38)
Blues scale licks (12:50)
Lick 1 (David Gilmour style) (4:16)
Lick 2 (David Gilmour style) (2:37)
Lick 3 (David Gilmour style) (3:08)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (2:18)

Week two includes: Phrasing and manipulation, grace notes, 1,2,3 & 4 note combinations, three licks in the style of Gary Moore.

Phrasing (25:32)
Lick 1 (Gary Moore style) (2:43)
Lick 2 (Gary Moore style) (2:15)
Lick 3 (Gary Moore style) (3:28)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (3:00)

Week three includes: Major pentatonic, Combining scales; Major, minor pentatonic and blues scale, Upward motion versus downward motion, More phrasing ideas, Shuffle rhythm, 3 licks in the style of Larry Carlton.

A major pentatonic scale in the 1st position (7:40)
Major pentatonic up, blues scale down (3:28)
Phrasing (18:23)
Lick 1 (Larry Carlton style) (3:02)
Lick 2 (Larry Carlton style) (3:30)
Lick 3 (Larry Carlton style) (2:29)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (5:53)

Week four includes: The A minor and pentatonic blues scale in the 2nd position, Repetition of phrasing, Call and response, Simplifying licks, Stretching the time, 3 licks in the style of Eric Clapton.

A minor pentatonic in the 2nd position (4:35)
Repetition of phrasing (8:57)
Call & response (5:00)
Moving between positions (2:21)
Lick 1 (Eric Clapton style) (2:13)
Lick 2 (Eric Clapton style) (4:00)
Lick 3 (Eric Clapton style) (2:48)
Simplified licks (Eric Clapton style) (8:47)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (2:33)

Week five includes: Same shapes in different positions, call and response between major and minor scales, percussive playing, repeating licks, 3 licks in the style of Paul Kossoff.

Same shape, different position (9:32)
Call & response between minor & major pentatonic (4:10)
Percussive playing (4:17)
Repeating licks (9:44)
Lick 1 (Paul Kossoff style) (3:46)
Lick 2 (Paul Kossoff style) (1:46)
Lick 3 (Paul Kossoff style) (2:05)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (3:06)

Week six includes: Rhythm ideas, bluesy rock & roll around the A, D and E shapes, playing up a 4th, using 6th and 9th chords, playing lead an punctuating with chords, 3 licks in the style of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Double note licks (26:25)
Backwards sweeping (3:29)
Punctuation with chords (12:28)
Lick 1 (Stevie Ray Vaughan style) (1:50)
Lick 2 (Stevie Ray Vaughan style) (2:32)
Lick 3 (Stevie Ray Vaughan style) (2:57)
Final solo - Combining all new techniques (1:48)

Language: English
Year: 2009
Country: UK
Running time: 4:29:00 + 0:24:55 (jam tracks)
Quality: DVDrip
Video: XviD MPEG-4, 672?384 (1.75:1), 25 fps, ~650 kbps avg, 0.10 bit/pixel
Audio: MP3, 48 kHz, Joint Stereo, 128 kbps (CBR)
Booklet: No