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Blues chords and scales This is a slightly confusing topic, and one that tends to contradict a lot of what we learn in common music theory. The best thing to do with blues is to not try correlating it with typical music theory – just learn the basic ideas and think of it simply as … Read more

Scales and Major Blues If you regularly visit guitar forums and social media posts, information on scales to use over major blues chord progressions often ends up confusing and, quite frankly, is often wrong. That’s not to say the subject isn’t slightly complicated but that comes more from trying to relate things to traditional music … Read more

Targeting Chord Tones Depending on the style of music, using a scale to create a solo is as much about the chords as it is the scale. Something like a typical blues solo will often be based mostly around the minor pentatonic scale combined with cliche licks and other commonly used ideas. Other music may … Read more

My guitar solos suck! What scales should I use? It’s a question we hear often among amateur and even some advanced intermediate guitarists. The title sentence reads like a statement followed by a question – in actual fact it’s more like a question followed by the answer. Let’s rewrite it: Q: Why do my guitar … Read more