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 with the minor/major pentatonic and blues scales. While these scales are of course the bread…
Category: Jazz Blues
Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Easily Jazz Up Your Blues Soloing
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 quick lesson on using the upper chord extensions to get a jazzier sound in standard…
10 Effective Ways to Learn How to Play Jazz Guitar
I’m a huge fan and student of jazz guitar, but I’m definitely not an expert. If you’ve ever tried to get into jazz guitar, you may have found it a daunting experience. To remedy this, we got together with Marc-Andre…
Blues Soloing Tricks: The Versatile 6
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. The 6 is not part of the minor pentatonic or blues scales, but it can…
Blues Soloing Tricks: The Blue Note
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, which we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: What to Do with the 4. I…
Soloing Over Chord Changes: How to Start
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. It’s also a blow to the ego as you basically have to suck it up,…