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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 it lends

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

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

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

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

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

This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor Sounds, so

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

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

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