The Blues Scale on Guitar: Adding the Blue Note to Your Pentatonic
If you already know the pentatonic minor scale, the blues scale is one note away. That one note — the chromatic passing tone between the…
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How to Use Arpeggios in Blues Guitar
An arpeggio is just notes out of the chord — any chord. You can draw an arpeggio from any chord you’ve got under your fingers,…
Adding Chromatic Passing Tones to Your Guitar Solos
Once you’ve got a pentatonic scale under your fingers and you’re starting to build phrases with it, the next step in your guitar solo lessons…
Danelectro Guitar Review
The Danelectro sits in a weird spot in the guitar world. It’s not fancy, not expensive, and it looks like nothing else out there. But…
Acoustic Blues Guitar Boogie
If there’s one riff that sounds like the blues, it’s the boogie. That walking, bouncing bass pattern you hear in every juke joint and roadhouse…
Blues Riff in E Minor With Chromatic Passing Notes
This riff comes straight out of the E pentatonic minor scale — with one extra ingredient that gives it that raw blues edge. It’s a…