Melodic Devices For Creating Lines
Of all the "tricks" that guitar players use to create more interesting lines, this one probably took me the longest to figure out...
And you can call them lines or licks,
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The Blues Half Step Scale – The Altered Dominant Sound
In talking about more Modern Blues Soloing, and getting away from the standard Pentatonic and Blues scales for a bit, one of the things we have to discuss is the
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The Lydian Dominant Sound
Surprisingly to many blues players, the minor pentatonic and blues scales aren't actually the best fit for a lot of chords we play...
In general, the minor pentatonic works everywhere (over
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Borrowing Arpeggios…
This is a concept that I hear a lot in playing by modern blues players like Matt Schofield, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, and others.
It involves using a bit of music
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Jazz It Up – The I VI II V Turnaround (and more)
In a previous video we talked about using a ii-V instead of the V-VI in bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues....
And in that video, I mentioned that
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That ii V Move In A Blues…
In this blues guitar lesson we'll talk about one of the common-er jazz/jump style variations.
It's a ii-V (two-five) move over bars 9 and 10 of the 12 bar blues form...
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Pick, Fingers, Claw… Yes!
Albert King always used his fingers to pluck the strings...
Stevie Ray Vaughan pretty much always used a pick...
Robben Ford uses sort of a "claw" with both the pick and his
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How To Use A Metronome
Too many people think that using the metronome is the first thing you should reach for when you practice...
And NOTHING could be further from the truth.
Sure, there are a LOT
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What Makes Blues…. Blues?
Ever wonder what it is about music that makes it sound, "bluesy?"
Obviously some music is a 12 bar blues form, so it's technically, "a blues," but there is a LOT
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