G Blues Variations
Guitar players and other musicians get a little musically stale, you know that feeling when you feel absolutely and totally uninspired?
One of the reasons is that it’s easy to be disorganised, sound familiar?
Another is because you’re playing the same thing over and over.
Some weeks ago I started writing a few variations on a a blues scale, things that I use unconsciously, so I thought I’d share them. G Blues sits very nicely on the acoustic guitar. Don’t worry if you can’t read music dots, the guitar tab is there as well and is easy to follow.
The G blues Variation that I have done is not a song. It is some scalar (new word…I just made it up) ideas that can be used over a straight blues that consists of G7, C7 and D7. Easy enough. You’ll notice I haven’t written so the ascend and then descend, I’ve added some little twists to make it more musical. I know many guitarists that play real hard at scales to get faster and faster and faster and faster…then eventually they play themselves off the map because they are “Great Scale Players” but are musically numb. As I’ve played for so long and have suffer every musical ailment I think a little more about what I put out.
The standard Blues scale, what I refer to as a Minor Blues scale is G, B flat, C, D Flat, F
The things I put on my blogs are very good resources, the other guitar players that can play well realise this and many of the visitors don’t realise what they are getting here for free, there’s years of work offered here.
To download the printable version click G Blues Scale Variations Free Tab and Notation
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