What Your Blues Playing Is Probably Missing... | Mixolydian and the Major Scale

Most players assume that blues songs are 'minor' and will start off with the minor pentatonic and blues scales. But most blues songs are Dominant 7... which is a MAJOR triad with a b7!
If you know the major scale all over the neck in all keys, you already know the Mixolydian mode for all Dominant 7th chords you will ever see in a blues...
Most beginner players don't spend enough time with the major scale to understand just how powerful it really is... it was years before I realized all of those E Dorian rock solos I learned in middle school were really D Major scales!!!
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[@jimsalman7257]

Listening to a blues guitarist who plays minor pentatonic over everything is like being around someone who is angry all of the time and complains incessently. Who wants to hear that?

[@JRW66]

This is where you realize you don't know your scales as fluidly as you thought. Getting there though! Thanks Korey!

[@barberelectronics5672]

This one of the first things you showed me a few years back, and it has really helped my playing. Thanks Korey!

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Using the Compact Burn Unit in this video, BTW!

[@jonii5739]

thank you

[@SuiGenerisMan]

From 0:22 to 0:51 I seemed to have briefly lost consciousness and only remember my brain flashing the phrase "syntax error"

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

😆 what happened, good sir?

[@MarlonG527]

Thanks

[@eladvaknin7]

amazing video

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Thank you!

[@PilotGuy-lg4cx]

Thanks Korey! I have been following your practice advice and learning all the notes and all the major scales on the fretboard. I am starting to become faster towards instantly accessing the information when playing. What would be the best way to develop a solid vocabulary once I learn the notes, scales, and chords? Thanks again.

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Learning songs, transcribing solos, and if you want something really manageable, “lick of the day” learn a phrase off a solo from one of your favorite players. Put it in all 12 keys, practice with a backing track, and you can do that in 15 min a day!

[@asarcadyn2414]

I loved your first example but it didn't sound like blues to me. It was more country rock like some of the Allman Bros songs, Grateful Dead, or Lynyrd Skynyrd

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Right, the major third will do that! If you’re used to a lot of traditional Blues (which I love and actually play most of the time) it will sound certainly more country or jazzy. Actually would never play this much of that type of thing in a real live gig - I would play a lot more normal Blues vocabulary! You have to overdo it in practice so that you can tastefully add it if you know what I mean!

[@asarcadyn2414]

@@KoreyHicksGuitar I am finding that most of time it sounds bluesiest in a major key when I use mostly minor pentatonic and slowly add in other notes. Of course songs like Need Your Love So Bad do it the other way around yet still sound like blues 😁. Its not easy is it!

[@paideepak30]

I also had difficultly understanding..i can pla C major in a couple of places but couldn't follow the lesson😂

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Go back to my other videos…. We start from the beginning! All notes then all scales in every position!

[@Original_Laces]

Man i feel like i understand this but it goes over my head at the same time When you say learn all the c major shapes, you mean the scales that start on each note of the c major scale? So c, d e etc?

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Yes, this is a follow-up video to some of my earlier videos where we learned all of our notes on the neck, all of our scales every position, practice them together and started incorporating them into 12 keys and 84 modes so those are kind of a prerequisite to understanding what I’m doing here

[@Original_Laces]

@@KoreyHicksGuitar thanks, just found that video so will go through that one now!

[@NorfMPLSRes]

Me gusta, hermano.

[@BobbyCulpepper.srv3fender]

Hey you got a REVV! How you like it?

[@KoreyHicksGuitar]

Had it for two or three years actually, haven’t used it for much but really enjoy it! I used it at church gigs