The Blues Scale
The first thing I would like to introduce in this book is the Blues scale. First look at the minor pentatonic scale, which was thoroughly dealt with in the book Progressive Blues Lead Guitar Method. Here it is in the key of E.
E Minor Pentatonic - E Form
The Blues scale contains one new note - the flat fifth note of the major scale (see lesson 18 of Progressive Blues Lead Guitar Method). If you add this note to the minor pentatonic, the Blues scale is formed.
E Blues Scale - E Form
Run through the fingering of the E Blues scale until you are comfortable with it.
Here are some licks to help you become familiar with the E Blues scale. The first lick is played on the treble strings.
This example is the same lick as the previous except it is played on the bass strings.
Class Sessions
1- Developing a Theme
2- Moving Licks
3- Grace Notes
4- Set Rhythms
5- More Set Rhythms
6- Two Bar Rhythms
7- Ties
8- Across the Bar
9- Triplets
10- Triplet Set Rhythms
11- Sliding Scales
12- Major Pentatonic - Other Forms
13- Chords and Arpeggios
14- Major Pentatonic Scales
15- LESSON TWENTY TWO
16- 12 Bar Arpeggio Riff
17- Arpeggio Solo
18- Sixteenth Notes
19- Set Rhythms With Sixteenths
20- The C Form
21- INTRODUCTION
22- Slow Blues Solo
23- Tremolo
24- The Blues Scale
25- Blues Licks
26- Blues Solo
27- Higher Up
28- The Trill
29- The D Form
30- LESSON THIRTY ONE
31- The Rake
32- Twelve-Eight Time
33- The A Form
34- LESSON THIRTY THREE
35- The G Form
36- Combining Major and Minor
37- Rhythm Notation
38- Common Picking Directions
39- Adding the Minor Third
40- Summary of Scales
41- Chords
42- A New Solo
43- Note Values
44- G Form Solo
45- A Form Solo
46- C Form Solo
47- Diagrams
48- Arpeggios
49- Dotted Notes
50- Combining Forms
51- Tablature
52- The Shuffle
53- Tablature Symbols