There are far too many blues innovators to mention them all but listen to Delta pioneers Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson to appreciate the roots of the genre. The Fender Strat is ideal ...

It's a crucial difference that gives Mixolydian licks and chord progressions a bluesier edge than the sometimes overly bright-sounding major scale. To demonstrate this, we'll start by looking at ...

I associate these chord progressions with “Ragtime ... In order to describe what it is, some academic made up what they call a “blues scale.” The very idea of putting the words “scale ...

How to create a chord progression from any melody How to play guitar like David Gilmour: Bluesy diads, slides, quarter-tone blues curls and more Practise the basic minor pentatonic scale first (black ...

The figure ends with a return to the I, F5 to F6, which can be looked at as implied F7 chord. Now, one could easily play licks based on the F blues scale (F, Ab, Bb, B, C, Eb) over the entire ...