3 Easy Ways to SPICE UP your Blues Playing

In this video I teach you how to improve your blues solos. We learn to add to the Minor pentatonic and expand our fretboard knowledge.
We begin with the A Minor Pentatonic Scale which everyone knows and loves. For reference those notes are A C D E and G.
From there we add the flat 5 (Eflat also known as the blue note) to the minor pentatonic scale and we create the BLUES scale. A C D Eflat E and G.
Next; we play with both the major and minor 3rd (C and C#) to move in and out of major/minor blues. Our expanded scale is now A C C# D E Eflat and G
These two notes when combined with the minor pentatonic scale give a wide number of variants that can be used to make your playing sound more sophisticated.
Finally, we use Dominant 7 arpeggios for each of the chords typically found in a blues song. In this case A7, D7 and E7. We look at two fingerings for each arpeggio that are located near the box position so that you can always come back to your familiar shape if you get lost. The purpose in examining the Dominant 7 arpeggios is to be able to apply these over the underlying chord and allow you to play the changes properly instead of just using A minor Pentatonic over all three chords.
A7 Dominant arpeggio notes are A C# E G
D7 Dominant Arpeggio notes are D F# A C
E7 Dominant Arpeggio notes are E G# B D
These arpeggios are from the mixolydian mode so you could of course also use the corresponding mixolydian mode over the appropriate 7 chord. At this time however I wanted to focus on the arpeggios so you can find the target notes that lead the ear through the chord changes.
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[@jpukler]

Hey man :) Great video!! You have made more sense to me re: mixoyldian than anything else I have found on youtube .... gonna be workin on this now... Thanks bud :)

[@LucasCrossleyGuitar]

Thanks for your kind words! It’s comments like that that make me want to make more videos:) Let me know if you get stuck anywhere and I’ll try to help. Cheers!!!

[@LucasCrossleyGuitar]

These are three things that I have been using for some time. I have been using the Major Minor 3rd as well as the Blue Note for many many years. More recently I am using Mixoyldian and the Dominant 7 arpeggios consciously to play over the chord changes. Inspired largely by the wonderful guitar work of Matt Schofield. Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. Also, like many others I am still learning so please by all means share with us if you have some correction or something you can add. Cheers!!!