The Blues Scale

In order for it to be most useful, the blues scale needs exact fingering in your fretting hand. The first finger will play all notes on the fifth fret. The second finger will play the notes on the sixth fret. The third finger will play notes on the seventh fret. And the fourth finger will play all notes on the eighth fret.

Practice playing scales is one of the best ways to start working on the coordination in your fingers. They maybe boring, but they will help build the strength and quickness of your fingers need to play the guitar well. While practicing this new scale, keep that tip in mind. Take your time and learn this scale well. It’ll be one that you use often.

Solo Guitar – The Blues Scales

You have to know which notes you can play when you play a solo. A scale is set of notes. Not all notes on your fretboard would give a nice sound if played in one song; it must fit to the song and the chords.

We don’t have a choice the classical music theory is not well suited to describe the Blues. Blues is crazy and wrong from that point of view – playing dominant major 7th chords all over minor pentatonic scales, using a 5 tone scale instead of the accustomed 7 tone scales, using chromatic scale pieces for intros and turnarounds, adding notes that don’t belong to any scale – and these stupid chord progressions, so it’s only an attempt to describe what we call the Blues. Take the guitar: the frets are made for equal intonation, to play classical music. To get the notes between you need techniques like a string bend or a slide. The best ways to describe the Blues scale with standard music theory is using a pentatonic scale.