E Blues Scale Guitar Lesson

Blues scales are minor pentatonic scales with an extra note called the b5th (flat 5th).

I made this lesson as a fun way to practice an E blues scale (or any scale for that matter). Playing your scales on one string is usually not as efficient as moving across different strings but it is a great way to see the intervallic relationship between notes (half steps, whole steps and in the case of blues scales a minor 3rd).

To hear this scale/riff played with a crazy background track (part of it is an idea from one of the new tripfuse tunes)and an awesome way to practice with a beat by beat breakdown visit:

http://www.musiclearning.com/lessoncentral/riffs/onestringfun/onestringfun.html

It's free :)

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• lesson
• blues
• scale
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• open
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[sk8rasta39]

he turned whats supossed to be blues into something that sounds almost hard rock or metal. not cool man.

[tripfuse04]

@sk8rasta39 well i do agree that most people read the title and figure it would be a more traditional usage of the blues scale. but the blues scale is used in almost every style and genre of music. however i may change the title.

[Xahmbi]

Thats so what she said

[geostronger]

dude ur going too fast i cant learn anything

[Luisshamansblues]

i hate pickin in blues

[cheapwhitebread]

nice , gives me something to shoot for

[downhill240]

I'm a newbie on acoustic and I love these little tips. I'm going to put them all together and play the biues!

[maddkat420]

@geostronger

get the tab for the blues scale

he is just playing it on 1 string

[Carroll49]

@radianceguitarista Thanks for the help on this. I'm getting closer;)

[radianceguitarista]

@Carroll49 There are, technically, several blues scale shapes. Every pentatonic scale has 5 shapes, which is why its called the PENTAtonic scale. So yes, there are 5 major and 5 minor blues scale shapes because the blues scales are just a type of pentatonic scale.

[salamander2504]

@geostronger you'r too slow dude :)