Blues Lick in C

[Brewers]

Does anyone know where I can get a cool blues lick in key of C?

[Mike Bunting]

Sure, transpose one from the key of E.

[mandroid]

Or a G lick and move it down a 4th.
do the same thing on the middle strings,
out of the C F and G7th chords

Absorb Duke Ellington's 'C jam Blues'

[Brewers]

Thanks guys though I do realize this. I was looking to see if you guys had a favorite one or even an original one. You know, something new.

[Brewers]

I thought it would be kind of neat to have a place where blues licks/chords/tabs could be compiled once beginning blues mandolin players have used up resources. Most of the time the greatest resources are people who dont have anything published.

[JimRichter]

Go to my YouTube channel and my website. You'll find instruction on youtube and accompanying tab at the website.

[ShaneJ]

Jim's stuff is great - especially for blues. He plays guitar licks on the mandolin. It's different than a fiddle player turned mandolin player's style. For blues, it's just the mandoticket.

[Perry]

A favorite blues move of mine in "C" is to play
on the A string the 3rd fret then the 6th fret on the same string which you bend up and then hit the open E string then the third fret again...keep that
6th fret note bend ringing when you hit the open E string....

you can then augment the lick by keeping the 5th fret on the D string fingered the whole time...

listen to the very beginning of Sam Bush's "Clover Leaf Rag" for the lick I'm trying to convey:mandosmiley:

that same E flat against E flavor is in "Frog on a Lily Pad"

[swampstomper]

Get the Tab over at mandozine for Honky Tonk Swing from Mike Compton, or out of the Todd Collins Mel Bay Monroe Instrumentals book. Another approach is to take all the G licks from tunes like Evening Prayer Blues (Monroe or Compton or David Davis) and just move it down one string.