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Category: Blues

How to Spice Up the Major Pentatonic Scale

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

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August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Graham Tippett
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How to Dorian-Up a Blues

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

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April 24, 2020June 11, 2020 Graham Tippett
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Blues Soloing Tricks: Outline the Changes Easily

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

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December 29, 2019July 4, 2020 Graham Tippett
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Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing

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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

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May 11, 2018October 6, 2018 Graham Tippett
Blues, Improvisation, Jazz Blues, Jazz Guitar, Soloing, Soloing Over Chord Changes improv, jazz-bluesLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing

Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Use Multiple Scales in a 12-Bar Blues

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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

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November 2, 2017November 17, 2018 Graham Tippett
Blues, Improvisation, Soloing, Soloing Over Chord Changes bluesLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Use Multiple Scales in a 12-Bar Blues

Blues Soloing Tricks: The Versatile 6

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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

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July 26, 2017January 13, 2019 Graham Tippett
Blues, Jazz Blues, Robben Ford blues, blues soloingLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: The Versatile 6

Blues Soloing Tricks: What to Do with the 4

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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

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July 10, 2017January 13, 2019 Graham Tippett
Blues, Blues Soloing, Melodic Soloing, Soloing, Soloing Over Chord Changes blues, soloingLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: What to Do with the 4

Blues Soloing Tricks: The Blue Note

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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

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July 10, 2017January 13, 2019 Graham Tippett
Blues, Blues Soloing, Jazz Blues, Melodic Soloing, Soloing, Soloing Over Chord Changes bluesLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: The Blue Note

Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor Sounds

blending major and minor sounds

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

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July 4, 2017January 14, 2019 Graham Tippett
Blues, Blues Soloing, Soloing, Triads bluesLeave a Comment on Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor Sounds

Soloing Over Chord Changes: How to Start

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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

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March 30, 2017April 11, 2019 Graham Tippett
Blues, Blues Soloing, Jazz Blues, Melodic Soloing, Mental Stuff, Soloing, Soloing Over Chord Changes improvLeave a Comment on Soloing Over Chord Changes: How to Start

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