In this lesson, I’d like to show you a quick and dirty way to outline the changes in a 12-bar blues in A, rather than…
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It’s been a while since we’ve looked at blues soloing, so I thought I’d add to the Blues Soloing Tricks series of posts with a…
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A lot of guitarists tend to waste their practice time due to lack of focus, organization and discipline, and most of the time this is…
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Continuing our series on blues soloing tricks, we look at how to use the different intervals in blues playing, we come to the versatile 6.…
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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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