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How to Spice Up the Major Pentatonic Scale

There’s something about the major pentatonic scale that seems very dry to me, which can be a good thing because […]

The Dorian scale makes for an interesting twist you can use in a 12-bar blues. Yes, that’s right, you can […]

In this lesson, I’d like to show you a quick and dirty way to outline the changes in a 12-bar […]

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks […]

A lot of guitarists tend to waste their practice time due to lack of focus, organization and discipline, and most […]

Continuing our series on blues soloing tricks, we look at how to use the different intervals in blues playing, we […]

The blues note is of course the b5, and if you’ve been following this series of blog posts, you’ll find […]

This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor […]

In my opinion, the hallmark of good blues soloing is the ability to seamlessly blend major and minor scales/licks/runs to […]

Transitioning from blowing up and down pentatonic scales to purposely crafting your solos by taking the chord changes into account […]