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Mandolin Blues Lick of the Day #9 – 7.17.2023

Today’s This lick I learned from SRV’s playing. Originally a Howling Wolf tune, you’ll hear it on “Tell Me” from the Texas

This lick is one that I love to use over the IV chord. I first heard the lick used in the playing

Today we look at Charlie McCoy. This is the head to the Mississippi Blacksnake’s Blue Sky Blues. Blues mandolin licks and tablature

This is a cool approach to backing up a 12 bar blues using a pattern seen fingerpicking guitar. It’s keeping a thumping

This is one of MANY turnarounds in the key of E. Turnarounds are a great way of rethinking double stops—instead of playing

Happy Thursday! This lick is an introduction to a closed pentatonic box shape. Today’s lesson uses an A minor pentatonic blues pattern

A quick rendition rock mandolin rendition of Paul McCartney’s Live and Let Die from many years back that I did for my

Common blues lick and comparable to licks in G that can be heard in Yank Rachell or Johnny Young. When I hear

Here’s another guitar-based blues lick commonly found in guitarists like T-Bone Walker, BB King, or Hollywood Fats. This is in G, but

Video of Gordon Bonham and I performing at the 2022 Richter Mandolin Camp for the Rest of Us. A great example of