Hack #13: Blues Scales: Start with Mixolydian
This is an excerpt from 25 Guitar Scale Hacks, check out the full eBook here. If you’re getting into blues […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Use Multiple Scales in a 12-Bar Blues
A lot of guitarists tend to waste their practice time due to lack of focus, organization and discipline, and most […]
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 […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: What to Do with the 4
This lesson follows on from the approach we looked at in Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend Major and Minor […]
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 […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Blend 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 […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: Instant Clapton
Eric Clapton spearheaded the British blues explosion back in the sixties during what many believe to be his best playing. […]
My Blues Improvisation Practice Routine (Part 2)
In Part 1 we looked at four of the most common scales used in blues soloing and how to learn […]
My Blues Improvisation Practice Routine (Part 1)
I recently got back into blues playing, so I thought I’d share this practice routine for getting the fundamental blues […]
Blues Soloing Tricks: Other Scales to Use in a Blues
If you’ve gotten tired of the minor/major pentatonic and blues scales when soloing over a blues, you may be wondering […]