Blues Soloing: Using The House Pattern For Major And Minor Blues Scales

5easybluessolos.com - This pattern is one of my personal favorites simply because it is so simple and by turning it around between the major and the minor versions you can get an enormous amount of music out of it.
Obviously I didn't write out the licks I'm playing in the video because this particular video is more for showing you the pattern and letting you play around with it. Licks are to follow in later videos.
Enjoy!

[@SleepyPete66]

Thanks for posting this! It's very a "user friendly" way to play with the major/minor sounds. Your lessons are the best I've found.

[@javierlestido3418]

Great explanation! Very clear! Thanks from Uruguay!

[@crisestrella5293]

in all the tutorials your the only one ...who open my mind in soloing.. thanx sir hopefully i could improve my playing

[@ivaNfender]

Its amazing how even when he´s just playing the scale he makes it sound so great, there´s so much feel there, when i play the scale it sounds like a scale.

[@chazzer56]

Simple but brilliant and brilliantly explained too! Thanks for this video.

[@treehuggerdeath907]

Exactly the lesson I was looking for. Being a fledgling guitarist ive been looking for lessons just like this! Thanks.

[@phillipnorman7423]

Possibly the most practical lesson ever. Ta fella.

[@luisjorge4922]

What a great, great lesson, thanks for sharing with us, greetings from Mexico.

[@Davenemetzmusic]

Man, I’ve been looking for exactly something like this! Perfectly explained; thanks!

[@downhill240]

Great lessons here all the time! I will be working on these techniques for the next few days at least. Thanks for sharing!

[@downhill240]

Such a great sound and technique I had to put this in three different playlists on my channel!

[@MarkRhodesSongs]

That closing solo was sweet! This is good stuff, man. Thank you.

[@dalesaran]

Damn helpful for the "new to blues" player. Thanks.

[@GlendaJasperMaidenhair]

Griff you and your gift of music along with your Band is beyond words best of luck Happy New Year 2016

[@barrelhse]

Another good one- thanks, Griff.

[@Tolbiny]

Great lesson and sweet tone!

[@mnsimkin]

I have been hacking at blues for a long time. This is a very handy little review. Shows two box patterns for major and minor pentatonic. like the house idea

[@josephcisneros583]

great video just just helped me out 100! It makes way more sense to me now tha ji s again. I'll be checking out more of your videos

[@GregKosic]

Should have figured this out myself, lol. Played both patterns seperately just couldn't figure out how to link them. This will work in all the other blues boxes, just figuring that out now. Big thumbs up.Thanks!

[@warwicksmiley]

Thought I check this out,Even though I have your 4 note solo,This is great,Sound's great & I'm thankful for your time.

[@SandroMassarani]

Great lesson! I´m learning a lot. Thanks!

[@hitmhard]

That guitar sounds outstanding!!

[@MrJoeyBoombotz]

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

[@williamormerod486]

weird ..listened to this a year or 2 ago and got loads from it ....after a couple of years work listened again and it's like a different lesson learnt loads more from the same words ..excellent stuff if a bit odd... more work to donow

[@37BopCity]

Great lesson, thanks.

[@williamormerod486]

plain brilliant thanks

[@Dcba964]

Thanks for sharing this !

[@mark07421]

sweet sounding patterns .thx

[@kenjohnson2925]

Griff is such a good teacher..

[@ilovegitaar]

The major pentatonic as a house form also,i discovered that today.

[@PalmaMultimedia]

Superb!

[@bbbeno]

Awesome man!

[@rontowle8510]

One of your best tip lessons yet-I see why it's free ,because it's priceless --Ron T

[@nuplaya7249]

awe-inspring! Thanks.

[@DonDeering]

This is right on, you've pointed out something valuable; I wasn't conscious of it. Can you take other patterns and shift them a whole step up the neck to the I chord, down a step over the IV and V? (I will try. I know about moving the patterns a minor third down to get to the major, but I don't see how a step up relates to this, but relate it must.)

[@jemogan]

Excellent! Thank you...

[@kevingrady8736]

Thank you so much.

[@reskbean]

It would be great if you provided the tabs for the two riffs you demonstrated. Kind of hard to follow what you are doing without it. Great lesson. I think other students would be helped too looking at all the responses.

[@debbiemourant5631]

Nice lesson.

[@imannonymous7707]

This ones cool been trying to play these notes for years...and just 2 frets below I had 5 oops 4 more notes..damn

[@navintheyagaraj9540]

thanks that was really useful

[@chucklutter7399]

Thanks...... ...........again!

[@BLUUZYDUDE]

A good lesson here. Now I have an evil twin in my arsenal. Thanks Griff

[@theleftfoot]

cheers great lesson! one question; can i use this technic over all chord progression in the blues? thanks raffa

[@ArielsSmartyPants]

Fantastic :)

[@simantabordoloi]

Thank you. You just taught me a simple secret...

[@pinkuhaque8344]

Wonderful lesson, please provide the jam track for practice or send link like this type of jam track , it will help lot, thanks.

[@tremshaker6065]

Hi Great stuff! I'm new to playing the blues , or more like ( trying to play the blues ) your playing major pentatonic over the 1 chord and minor over the 4 and 5 that much I understand, but I think I've missed the point are you doing this over a dominant 7 Blues progression or a minor Blues progression or will it work over both types.

[@billfresh3776]

cool video

[@jimforgrave6365]

Anyone having trouble grasping this, try & find an image of the penitonic scale pattern with the blue note, AND the additional notes from the major penitonic scale. Shows EXACTLY what hes playing here!

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

Not really, Jim, the pentatonic scale with the blue note with the major pentatonic and the blue note is 9 notes in total, darn near the whole fretboard. That's much too complex and difficult to use for people just trying to get started improvising, in my experience. With a small shape you can focus on the music and actually saying something (which has more to do with rhythm than note choice, typically) and not get so hung up on a bucketful of notes you don't know how to use.

[@jimforgrave6365]

Well...when you said the 'house pattern' isnt a scale, or any scale that weve ever played before, but we were in the key of A....you lost me. When I looked up the over lapping patterns of the Major & Minor scale, I saw what pattern B.B was borrowing from... I got it. Its probably just me, but I tend to have a hard time weaving in & out of major & minor with the blues. I see these scales as clumps of patterns & not just a 'bucket of notes' so I found their relationship to each other very helpful. Believe me, your video was a big help! Many Thanks.

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

Understandable... we often use the term "key" wrong. In fact, in blues, no song is technically in any key (from a classical theory perspective.) What we should say is "tonal center" but that doesn't just roll off the tongue. Your question gives me an idea for another video, so thank you!

[@TheBigH1975]

nice

[@LDACG]

That was fun

[@ericschwartz9982]

Can anyone recommend sites to download blues backing tracks from? Thanks!

[@danielmadet9159]

Brillant

[@wyattkane88]

Killer video! I’ve been reading and watching a lot on these patterns... but this is incredibly practical. Thanks! I do have a question, and I may be getting in over my head. Why do you prefer the major sound over the I chord, but the minor over the IV and V? Is this something many blues players do? I love how it sounds. Definitely freshens up my meandering over the same old minor pentatonic. Hope someone can answer! Thanks!

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

I do prefer the sound, but mostly just because it's what those before me have done. It's a common sound of older BB King, T-Bone Walker, Robert Cray, some SRV, and many other players throughout history so my ear just leans that way. I do REALLY still like the minor sound over the I chord, it's great and I use it a lot. But I use it as one of many flavors, not the only option.

[@winslowwong9719]

aka bb box?

[@JamesLaFleur]

Vielen Dank ! :)

[@1straycat99]

D PEN-TONIC MAJOR OR IF YOU PLAYED A LOT MODES IN A YA WOULD SEE ALL THE NOTE IN A MODES IS THERE WHEN MIXING..AND YEA ITS A AWESOME TURN EVERYBODY IN BLUES 1ST LEARNS AND ITS GOOD ONE

[@Bwiser63]

Does the house pattern work in any key.

[@bubnellflyfishers]

+Bud Wiser - Bud - work the same patterns he plays here (major / minor) from the root note on the B string of the key you are playing over - hope that helps and makes sense - Steve.

[@danielsabo3567]

SRV, BB King, Freddie King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Clapton, all of them use this as the bed rock of their playing, not just the licks. It's three chords and the truth.

[@guitarmystery8432]

Backing track?

[@tylerwalker7084]

John Oliver can pick the hell out of a guitar!

[@Yowie722]

Graphite powder on the nut? My 335 pings on those strings too ;)

[@OozilyAmeezed]

A light bulb moment for me.

[@starkcd]

Man! This is "teach a man to fish" level stuff!!!

[@joehamilton5397]

Coy Stark I know I tried to push my phone in my asshole after I watched it.

[@music9556]

2.51 sounds like its crying

[@tonyaccardi5980]

You don't cover using this pattern in other keys.

[@bluesguitarunleashed]

it moves like any other pattern. Wherever your root note is, that's the key you're in.

[@cypressdobro8759]

it is a scale buddy. its the major scale. very elementary knowledge here.

[@navintheyagaraj9540]

thanks that was really useful