Blues Lick in D #3

Today's blues lick can be played over the D (IV) chord in a blues in A. You can use it with these A chord licks. Here's the lick.

  4  a  a     1  a  2  a  3 a a    4  a      1  a
e---------|------------------------------|-------------------
B---------|-6s7------------------6s7-----|-6s7---------------
G-5--6--7-|------7~~~-----5-6-7-------9--|------7~~~~~~------
D---------|------------------------------|-------------------
A---------|------------------------------|-------------------
E---------|------------------------------|-------------------

The lick starts with a chromatic walkup to the root D note. Placing this walk up at the end of the preceding A bar leads nicely into the D chord.

The lick continues with a slide from to the major 3rd of the D chord. This reinforces the "D-ness" at this point. Then it's back to the root D note, let this one sound for a beat or so.

The second bar of D is introduced with a similar motif. This time the slide is played twice for an extra emphasis. The whole thing finishes on the root D note again. Give this one emphasis with a long vibrato.

Note that this lick uses notes from the A major pentatonic scale. These notes all are part of the D major scale, too. This is why they sound good over the D chord in an A blues.