Blues Soloing Theory

Applying major scales to the blues

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[tonyemmanuelfanatic]

nice videos, and nice tips.

this works for minor and major blues?

thank you for your time and good guitar ideas.

[hupernikomen]

@tonyemmanuelfanatic :

Say you had a minor blues in A. The chords would be A-7/D-7/ E-7. Instead of dropping down a whole step and play G, like you can with dominant 7 blues chords, what you have is all the minors in the key of C represented. So in other words you play the major key whose relative minor is the I chord of the blues key you're playing in.

bp

[losserelli666]

what do you use to get that tone sir? it's beautiful!

[hupernikomen]

@losserelli666

First let me say that this video is a statement on how much I love my daughter Jessie who had just cut my hair off at the wrong starting place! :)

Anyway this was two years ago and I was most likely playing that '59 Silvertone through a Cube 30 with the delay setting at about 10 o'clock. Nothing special. Wait... no I bet I was playing through a Boss GT6 with a bit of delay and reverb into a Cube 30 with no effects and the tones at 12 oclock.

[jimmyjoemusic]

thanks for your help. i've been trying

to substitute different scales and your

video was a good example. i'll look up

your tabs.

[hupernikomen]

Jimmyjoe... knowing what parent scale "covers" the actual blues key you're in is a fabulous tool. If you're looking for powerful lick ideas ala George Benson I cannot recommend Mark Stefani's "Assembly Lines" high enough.

[cmsquared63]

Bob, this is absolutely mind-blowing to me. I have been playing for more than 30 years and have developed a deliberate blind spot for music theory. For some reason, I've never been able to wrap my head around realtive positions (read: scales) on the guitar. It's very frustrating. Your lesson is so staight foward that I really learned something—thanks!! I went to download your .pdfs couldn't find them, are they still there? If so, what have you titled them?

Thanks so much!

[MrBIOSkunk]

happy new year to all!

[MrBIOSkunk]

very nice - thanks ever so!

[losserelli666]

@hupernikomen Thanks for the reply man.. although, i dont own a Boss GT6 i'll use those settings with the cheap equipment i do have . again, thanks!

[zombiesarebad67]

really helpful. thanks