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If you feel stuck with the pentatonic or blues scale, and you are running out of ideas, then you have to watch this video. Using chord tones when you are improvising over a blues can really open up your playing. This lesson shows you how to using arpeggios over a I-IV-I progression (A7 | D7 | A7 | A7). Target the chord tones instead of rambling up and down a scale, and voila - your improvising will sound much better!
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A very informative lesson. You are a great instructor. Thank you.
Comment added on June 22, 2012Robert
I want to thank you for this lesson.
Everytime you do a lessson it seems to open a fundamental door and your instruction is clear that it is easy to follow
For a while now I thought the way to improve the minor pentatonic was to include some parts of the major pentatonic but which parts and how would you do that and where would you do that in the scale?
I found out that by moving down two frets from the A minor pentatonic you could find the
A major pentatonic but it is never as simple as that. A friend told me this only works ifyou know the right intervals between the major and minor and therefore the fret spacing will be different depending on the patterns from 1-5 that you are using at whatever position you are on the neck!
Now things began to get complcated again so a lesson on the relationship between the minor and major pentatonic in different positions would be very useful.
Whenever you think you have a handle on this stuff another door opens and you are left grasping for meaing if you know what I mean!
But as I said you are one of the genuine lights in the tunnel for those of us slow learners desperate to play the blues late in life.
So Thanks
Peter
Robert, your emphasis on starting and ending phrasing on chord tones solved a piece of the puzzle for me. While most here understand the Blues 1-IV-V progression, the 1-3-5 structure of chord tones as in tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone may be a bit more obscure. Of course, I know this comes under the heading of music theory, and that's probably not what you want to be teaching here, but if there was a place on your website explaining how chords are constructed, you'd be able to refer people to it for an explanation of what you are playing.
This lesson is a great, great step forward, I think, and I urge you discuss further and make more like it.
James
Very good! I love how you get in to some details and explain what you're doing. Keep dropping that knowledge down on us.
Comment added on August 19, 2011Another great lesson. Would be nice to see what you right hand is doing on all your new videos coming to view. I can see and feel what it is doing but for our new players would have a hard time with it I would think. Again thanks for sharing with all of us
Comment added on May 20, 2011A bit too complicated for me. I don't understand arpeggios and theory,etc. But still a great video!
Comment added on February 12, 2011Thanks Vince. You may want to check http://www.dolphinstreet.com/guitar_video_lessons/lesson-76.php or any of the other blues lessons, under the heading Blues, on the right side here.
Comment added on October 27, 2010Robert
I LOVE THE BLUES
And want very much to learn how to play it
Also Love watching and listing to you playing, Since i,am only a beginner been playing about eight months,Practice every day for 3 to 4 hours
This lesson is a little to advance for me, Right now all i can play is cords, Need help tell me Where do i go from here?
Vince
Thanks
Robert, your lessons are always great, easy to learn and juicy..perhaps next time you can show us to the 5 and back
Comment added on August 26, 2010this is very cool, and also with a good explanation go with it. thank you. next time add I, iv, v progression
Comment added on August 20, 2010would be nice to have some tab for your improvisation
superb lesson, as always ... :))
Thanks Robert,always looking for other stles,techniques and the like and you just caused a brainstorm.
Thank You
thanks for helping me get out of the scale rut. This lesson was outstanding.
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