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Understand the fundamentals of Blues Lead Guitar and start improvising and jamming the Blues!
13 Lessons
Few people have said that this is one of the most useful and important lessons on my whole website and they might be right!
The Minor Pentatonic is commonly the first scale people learn, and with good reason, it's easy and super useful, especially for The Blues!
String bending - an essential skill to play blues guitar! Here's what you need to know before you start.
Your first Blues words! I'll feel like a proud Dad when you're speaking them! Five licks from Pattern 1 of the Minor Pentatonic.
Vibrato is a very important technique and conveys a lot of emotion. Without it you playing will likely sound flat and uninspired. Many people seem to pick it up without '...
Now it's time to put your new words together and try making sense! You will need to use a backing track (or a Jam Buddy if you are lucky enough to have someone to jam wit...
The notes in The Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern 2 are exactly the same notes we had in Pattern 1, so many people wonder why we bother learning them! The reason is that di...
Well now that you know The Minor Pentatonic Pattern 2, you should probably start using it! And to get you going we are now looking at some licks (words) in this very fine...
The Blues Curl is a 1/4 tone bend that happens (pretty much) only on the Flat 3rd scale degree - in a Blues in A, it will be the note C that gets this treatment. It's onl...
The Blue note is the Flat 5 (b5) Scale degree which sounds great in the blues, especially when mixed in with the Minor Pentatonic Scale. Many people learn it as The Blues...
Whenever you learn a new concept or 'trick' in the Blues it's best to put it into practice and learn some of the words that use it! So in this lesson, we're checking out ...
Now you're gonna get real fancy. You have put the time into learning your licks in P1 and P2 of the Minor Pentatonic (you have, haven't you?) and now we're going to check...
To improvise over any blues you need to be able to figure out the KEY. Now that's easiest by learning Blues Rhythm Guitar which if you have not done yet, is a great cours...