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BLUES
in A - create your own riffs
Here
is the A Blues scale, also known somewhat
high-falootingly as the Am Blues Pentatonic
scale. But you should think of this as having
fun with scales. Don't play them boringly,
mechanically, in a consecutive kind of way.
Practising your scales can be an extremely
boring task, kind of soulless. The paradox
however is, that as a musician and a guitar
player, you need to know how these scales
work, particularly if you want to play blues
guitar effectively. For scales contain the
steps, quite literally, from which melody
is made. The word scale is based
on the Italian scala which means
ladder.
So have
fun, pick about with these notes, jump about
the freetboard, string hop, play chromatic
runs, and remember to accentuate and stress
the blues notes. If you have a second player
handy get them to strum, or pick through the
progression Am Dm Em. The fun thing
is that, when selected from the fretboard
below, none of the notes you play over this
suggested chord sequence will be wrong. You
will end up with some great licks to play
over say Am Dm Em, or A7 D7 E7
chord progressions.
Same
as for Blues in E
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