Jazz 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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The Melodic Minor Scale — How John Scofield Uses It
The melodic minor scale has a reputation as advanced material. It shows up in jazz theory books after you’ve covered…
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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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Easy Lydian Dominant Scale Flavors
The Lydian Dominant Scale, also known as the Lydian b7 scale, is the fourth mode of the melodic minor. But…
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Altered Scale for Guitar – The Easy Way
The altered scale for guitar is a difficult concept to grasp for a lot of players. This is because you…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…