This is an excerpt from 25 Guitar Scale Hacks, check out the full eBook here. If you’re getting into blues soloing, you’re probably already familiar…
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This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor Sounds, so be sure to…
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The blues note is of course the b5, and if you’ve been following this series of blog posts, you’ll find it just after the 4,…
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In my opinion, the hallmark of good blues soloing is the ability to seamlessly blend major and minor scales/licks/runs to exploit that minor/major third ambiguity…
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Transitioning from blowing up and down pentatonic scales to purposely crafting your solos by taking the chord changes into account can be frustrating for guitarists.…
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Eric Clapton spearheaded the British blues explosion back in the sixties during what many believe to be his best playing. I personally love all of…
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If you’ve been following this series (go to: Part 1 | Part 2), and practicing the material, you should now have more than enough patterns…
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In Part 1 we looked at four of the most common scales used in blues soloing and how to learn them in positions. We also…
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I recently got back into blues playing, so I thought I’d share this practice routine for getting the fundamental blues scales down and incorporated into…
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The Minor Pentatonic Box 1 was probably one of the first things you learned when you started improvising on guitar, and it’s probably the most…
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