You’ve probably heard of the “Blues Boxes” that I use a lot and they are used by many instructors around the world.<\/p>\n
The minor blues scale is fundamentally a pentatonic minor scale (root, b3, 4, 5, b7) with a 5b added. So in the key of A you have A, C, D, Eb, E, and G.<\/p>\n
There are different opinions as to whether or not there are 2 blues scales, major and minor, or 1 blues scale (fairly equivalent to what I call a major blues scale but with a flatted 3rd added.)<\/p>\n
I have them written out in TAB and standard notation below… and I encourage you to take a look at them, but don’t try to memorize them all right away.<\/p>\n
Learn 1, then learn to use it. Then learn 2, then get good at using it. Then learn 3, etc. Otherwise you’ll get lost in the “what do I do now” syndrome!<\/p>\n
Click Here To See The PDF Of The A Minor Blues Boxes In Tab<\/a><\/p>\n And once you get the hang of those, check out how you can use the same 5 boxes for major or minor sounds<\/a>, and also learn them based around root notes. This is the highest level of understanding and will take some time, but I have a tool to help you out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You’ve probably heard of the “Blues Boxes” that I use a lot and they are used by many instructors around the world. The minor blues scale is fundamentally a pentatonic minor scale (root, b3, 4, 5, b7) with a 5b added. So in the key of A you have A, C, D, Eb, E, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6864,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}