Sue Foley's inaugural GW column kicks off with a bang! Blues you can use, people. This part one of a two-parter introduces ...

Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of ...

A, C, D, E and G notes form the A minor pentatonic scale, so Eb is the all important note that turns this run into the blues scale. Each note is either one, two or three frets apart from its ...

You don’t have to stick rigidly to the minor pentatonic scale - there are loads of other notes on the guitar, so go ahead and use ... The quarter-tone bend on the 5th fret is a typical blues trick.