Welcome to Blues Licks. From the earliest country blues singers to the post-modern blues stylists of today there is a bond that unifies these musicians, the language of the blues. One of the most important goals for a blues guitarist is to develop an understanding of the vocabulary of ideas that can be used to construct and shape an improvised solo. The basis of developing a vocabulary, along with knowing scales, chords and songs, begins with learning and emulating the licks and phrases