The basis of your efforts to play a blues solo will be the minor pentatonic scale. In the key of E, the scale is: E G A B D. Just five notes, but they are all good ones! If you are new to guitar playing you may not be aware of how many different...
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The A minor pentatonic scale has five notes: G A C D E You can play it starting on the low E string at the fifth fret like this: A C D E G A C D E G A C Here’s the tab: E———————————5–8—- B————————–5–8———– G——————-5–7—————— D————-5–7———————— A——5–7——————————- E-5-8————————————- For variety you can...
If you use the A minor pentatonic scale as a basis for your musical education, you will be working with the notes A C D E and G all over the guitar neck. To help you make sense of your explorations, look at the job as learning the scale at the first, fifth and...
It’s been a while since the blues has been featured in these pages, so here is an introduction to the blues from one of the masters. Hawkeye Herman has been playing the blues since he was a teenager. That’s over fifty years. He learnt to play from people like Son House, Brownie McGhee, Bukka...
The bottom line for most people starting out with blues guitar is to become a solo player. This means you know how to improvise and to write yourself a collection of licks.