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A bilingual (English/Spanish) "step by step how to" blog about guitar lessons, arrangements, soloing, improvisation, chord melody, chord solos, fingerstyle, etc... With free exercises, theory, lessons and anything related to jazz and blues guitar.
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Blues Improvisation
Jazz BluesThe jazz blues takes on a variation from the standard blues. In bar 2 a C7 is introduced. This C7 is also common to the "regular" 12 bar blues, so it's found in both forms. The real change in a jazz blues is found in bars 9 and 10. Am7 ...
Blues Improvisation
In the following diagram we see how and where the major and minor pentatonic scales can be applied. If you're new to changing scales in the middle of a progression, I suggest that you try playing the G major pentatonic scale over bars 1-4 and from b...
Blues Improvisation
Here are the fingerings for the Ab pentatonic major scale. Note that they are the exact same ones for F pentatonic minor, only the root has changed position. Memorize these fingerings and practice playing them with the blues, it's the best way to l...
Blues Improvisation
We have seen that the minor pentatonic scale sounds good over the entire blues progression. You can't go wrong. After awhile however the same sounding scale starts to get a little monotonous.To make your solos sound more interesting and to get more...
Blues Improvisation
We've seen the blues progression and its three chords (See Blues Progressions). There's one very simple scale that you can use to play over the blues and it will always sound good. That scale is the Minor Pentatonic scale. The blues progression th...
Blues
The blues in one of its most basic forms is known as the 12 bar blues. It looks like this.El blues en una de sus formas más básicas se le conoce como el blues de 12 compases.The blues is a curious music form in that it's very simple to play and yo...
