The Blues Scale on Guitar: Adding the Blue Note to Your Pentatonic
If you already know the pentatonic minor scale, the blues scale is one note away. That one note — the chromatic passing tone between the…
Blues Guitar
The Flatted Fifth: The Devils Interval That Became the Blues Note
The flatted fifth. The devil’s chord. The devil’s interval. This lesson is part of our blues scale series. If you lived long enough ago, they’d…
Intermediate Blues Guitar Riff — Minor Thirds and Chromatic Movement
This is the more advanced riff in the Beginners Blues Riff Chorus series, and it builds directly on the E minor riff with chromatic passing…
Blues Riff in E Minor With Chromatic Passing Notes
This riff comes straight out of the E pentatonic minor scale — with one extra ingredient that gives it that raw blues edge. It’s a…
How to Use Arpeggios in Blues Guitar
An arpeggio is just notes out of the chord — any chord. You can draw an arpeggio from any chord you’ve got under your fingers,…
How to Change Scales With the Chords in Blues
One of the biggest questions I get from students is this: how do I change scales with the chords? It’s a great question, and the…
A Cool Blues Riff Based on the Pentatonic Scale
This blues riff guitar lesson covers one of those licks that sounds way harder than it actually is. It comes straight out of the pentatonic…
How to Combine Major and Minor Blues Scales
The question comes up a lot — how do you combine major and minor scales when you’re soloing over the blues? It sounds complicated, but…
12 Bar Blues Solo — Complete It Step by Step
This is it. Lesson five. We’re finishing this 12-bar blues solo today — and I’ve only got one reminder. Did you put your time in?…
Slow Blues Solo — The Toughest Riffs
Lesson four. Two days to go. If you put your time in after the last lesson, this is going to make sense. If you didn’t…