Many, perhaps most, blues guitarists use the minor pentatonic scale as a starting point for solos. It’s easy to play and you get a typical blues vibe over both dominant 7th chords (C7, F7 etc) and ...

In the examples and in the solo here, I mixed up various approaches on the A minor chords, even adding the blues scale with ...

Blues artists, even to this day, almost never think in terms of scales. What most people call the “blues scale” is a minor pentatonic scale with a flatted fifth. G minor pentatonic scale ...

V changes and come up with some soloing ideas that enhance your melodic sensibility – and add a bit of fire along the way ...

An essential scale for classic blues and rock solos, the Mixolydian mode is loved by everyone from B.B. King to Guns N' Roses – here's how it works Stuart Ryan Sun, January 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC ...

This scale adds classy sounding 9th and 13th intervals to dominant 7th chords without the need to play the chords themselves. Listen to the melodic, soulful lines in Freddie King’s classic blues ...

BB King apologising to Bono. Blue notes. Like most blues players, King based many of his phrases and licks on the minor pentatonic scale, which is a simple “box shape” on the fingerboard that ...