Acoustic Guitar Player

TIRED OF PLAYING THAT SAME OLD BLUES SCALE?

In keeping with my secret desire to help raise the standard of guitar players globally, I decided to sit down and write another tutorial for those players that want to extend their playing a little when playing a blues.

Here’s why I love playing blues. I can go to many places in the world (and I have been) and sit down with a group of musicians of any standard, they don’t even have to speak the same language and we can make music together.  Blues can be simple or complex, or any standard inbetween and all the other players have a pretty good idea where things are going. What can happen though is when you play Blues over and over, you may find it can get a little predictable, and if you’re not in one of those musical moments when the inspiration tap is on, you can feel a bit musically dry.  You may not feel to fired up about playing the same old blues scale for th 24,000th time. So what I’ve done is create a few more options based around a basic A Blues. 

As you’d probably know, the foundation chords of an A Blues are A7 D7 and E7.  You’ll notice in the chords I’ve used,  instead of a D7 I’ve used a D7th with a different bass note, no big deal, just another way of playing it.  Also for the E7th I’ve used a G sharp in the bass.  Easy enough if you look closely.Now remember, always play with feeling, take your time, enjoy what you are doing.

Click the Link to download the GOOD QUALITY PRINT VERSION A blues scale variations Tab and Free Notation