Blues
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Why Your Blues Solos All Sound the Same (And It’s Not Your Scales)
Record yourself playing a 12-bar blues. Not once — three choruses. Now listen back and ask yourself an honest question:…
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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…
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How to Dorian-Up a Blues
The Dorian scale makes for an interesting twist you can use in a 12-bar blues. Yes, that’s right, you can…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: Outline the Changes Easily
In this lesson, I’d like to show you a quick and dirty way to outline the changes in a 12-bar…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…