{"id":7422,"date":"2018-10-28T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7422"},"modified":"2018-10-28T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T04:45:51","slug":"approaching-your-blues-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/approaching-your-blues-solos\/","title":{"rendered":"Approaching Your Blues Solos…"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an old saying, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” and that’s very true with blues soloing…<\/p>\n

By far, one of the most common approaches is simply to play the the minor pentatonic\/blues scale using the “5 boxes” to arrange them on your fretboard.<\/p>\n

But you could also use the “4 Note Solo<\/a>” approach to arranging those notes, or even the “2+3” pattern (which, you may not have heard of unless you’ve been through my “Rut Busters” course which is a little more obscure.)<\/p>\n

And then, of course, you could add in the Major blues sound over the I chord – that’s yet another approach.<\/p>\n

Or you could abandon the pentatonic scales (sort of) and go for some BB King style “House Pattern<\/a>” stuff.<\/p>\n

Same thing for some chord tones and even some modes or synthetic scales – the sky, is truly, the limit.<\/p>\n

All of those are different approaches – yet all will work and yield slightly different results.<\/p>\n

You can use ANY one of them over ANY blues song, and they’ll work. So don’t necessarily try to learn them all at once, it’ll overwhelm you.<\/p>\n

Instead, choose one, and work with it for a while. It takes time for you figure out how to get the music out of a new sound, so don’t be discouraged if it sounds awkward at first.<\/p>\n

Think of it as a new language, and it takes time to learn a new language, so be patient with yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an old saying, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat,” and that’s very true with blues soloing… By far, one of the most common approaches is simply to play the the minor pentatonic\/blues scale using the “5 boxes” to arrange them on your fretboard. But you could also use the “4 Note […]<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422"}],"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=7422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7423,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7422\/revisions\/7423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}