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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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 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…
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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 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…