Blues
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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…
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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.…
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My Blues Improvisation Practice Routine (Part 3)
If you’ve been following this series (go to: Part 1 | Part 2), and practicing the material, you should now…
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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…
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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…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: Livening Up the Pentatonic Box
The Minor Pentatonic Box 1 was probably one of the first things you learned when you started improvising on guitar,…
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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…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: How Not to Run Out of Ideas
If you find you’re running out of ideas when soloing over a blues, then you absolutely must learn blues scales…
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Blues Soloing Tricks: How to Always Land on the Right Notes
I think every guitarist should learn to play the blues at some point on their musical journey. It has so…
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How not to Play Pentatonic and Blues Scales like Everyone Else
I don’t know about you, but I cringe when I hear a guitar player (usually in a guitar shop) scraping…