Welcome To the Acoustic Guitar Workshop's
Pentatonic To The Blues Course

Here is a resume of the course. Just click the lesson titles to get to the lesson.

Lesson 1 History
Origins of the pentatonic and relevance to the blues.

Lesson 2 Major and Minor Pentatonics
Construction and uses of the two scales.

Lesson 3 Pentatonic to the blues
Turning pentatonics into useful tools for the blues. Playing with patterns

Lesson 4 Stressing the Blues
Making more effective use of the blues scales, using bends, slides, chromatic, passing, and neighbour tones.

Lesson 5 Bending the Blues
Instrumental highlighting blue note bending.

Lesson 6 Chromatic Blues
Instrumental blues using chromatic tones.

Lesson 7 Neighbour Blues
Instrumental blues using neighbour notes and slides.

Lesson 8 The Diminished connection
Patterns and uses of the diminished scale in the blues.

Lesson 9 Scale Review
A selection of major and minor pentatonic scale patterns for the sixth and fifth string roots. Minor pentatonic blues scale patterns for the sixth and fifth string roots.

Note about audio files: to save on download time we have made our real audio files as small as possible. Sound quality is not what you'd expect on your cd player, but fine for learning purposes.