Blues Guitar Scales

Blues Scales For Guitar - Learning To Use Them

In this lesson we’ll take a look at learning to use blues scales for guitar. We’ll take both the Minor Blues scale and Major Blues scale and look at a way of learning to use them. But before we get started…do you know these two scales?
If you are new to blues scales for guitar, then I […]

Mixing Blues Guitar Scales - Two Cool Sounding Guitar Licks

I’m excited about this guitar lesson! We’re going to look at two really cool sounding licks that combine both the Major Blues and Minor Blues scales. Combining these two scales is one of my favorite strategies for creating interesting bluesy guitar licks.
For this lesson we’ll create the licks by combining these two blues scales…

B Major Blues scale
B Minor […]

Learning The Minor Blues Scale - Building Technique

Anyone serious about guitar scales mastery needs to learn the minor blues scale. It is an essential scale that is widely used in many blues, rock, fusion and jazz guitar solos. In an earlier guitar lesson on understanding blues scales I talked about the theory behind the minor blues scale. For this lesson we’ll focus on […]

Gaining Technical Mastery Over The Major Blues Scale

In an earlier guitar lesson, I gave you some essential theory that will help you understand blues scales. In that lesson I explained how the major blues scale was constructed and that it had the scale degrees 1 2 b3 3 5 and 6. For this lesson we’ll leave the theory behind, and focus on […]

Understanding Blues Scales

Are you a budding blues guitarist wanting to improve your knowledge of scales used for improvisation? Do you want to discover the most essential scales that you need to learn for expressive blues guitar solos? If you answered yes…then you’re in the right place!
In this guitar scale article we take a look at two incredibly […]