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 ...

Turnarounds come around within the last four bars of a 12-bar blues progression and getting them right puts the cherry on top ...

Integrating 'three-notes-per-string' blues scale shapes and 3-1-3 pentatonic shapes can open up new fretboard possibilities When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

On the guitar the Blues notes are played by bending the strings which raises the note up a quarter tone into the Blues scale. Certain notes are primary to the Blues.

Play a blues version of this scale - “flatten” the 3rd, 5th and 7th note by playing the black notes to the left. Skip the D and the A.

"The blue notes and blues scale, these bent notes and neutral pitches, sliding pitches, however you want to characterize them and there are various ways to express them vocally and instrumentally ...

Some basic music theory is also covered including how to substitute blue notes in a major scale to get the signature blues sound and how to transpose songs into other keys.