Having looked at the minor pentatonic scale last month, this issue we’re moving on to its close relative, the blues scale. We say ‘close relative’ because the two scales are almost identical - just ...

Whether you call these solo ideas minor blues or embellished pentatonic/blues scale, the effect is the same, freeing you up from established patterns to hold your audience's attention ...

In this beginners' video lesson, we show you how to string bend within the blues scale. After the minor pentatonic scale, the blues scale is one of the most common scales found in guitar music. It's ...

Like its Lydian cousin, the Mixolydian mode deviates from the major scale by just one note – the major 7th, which is lowered by a semitone to become a minor 7th. It's a crucial difference that gives ...

Here are the common techniques and musical devices from the blues and jazz styles. Think of ways how they can be transferred to performance and composition tasks. In performance In composing 12-bar ...