To get you started we’re looking at some chords in the guitar-friendly key of A. You’ve probably heard of a I-IV-V (one-four-five) progression - it’s a common blues chord sequence and its name tells ...

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 ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be demonstrating many of my approaches to blues rhythm guitar playing and soloing, covering a ...

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 ...

covering major and minor chords, pentatonic and blues scales, some basic finger picking styles, and strumming patterns. The intermediate section adds some more complexity to the blues sound.

The minor pentatonic scale – and its close cousin the ... they are the way he communicates musically. The blues genre’s simple chords and predictable note choices are not the point of the ...