Sound great with one pentatonic scale – Play the blues like this
When starting to improvise you need something very understandable.
You need something that gives you the basic feel of improvising and which is useful in your further development of your playing.
You need to develop your feel for rhythm and timing.
You also need to develop your motor skills to correspond with your hearing.
In this video I will get you going on all these great skills with a super simple blues and one pentatonic scale.
In this tutorial
Why starting with the blues?
The three dominants
One pentatonic scale
Pentatonic scale exercises
The pentatonic scale groups
One bar improvisation
Solo Method “Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale”
Show, play and analyse a solo on a blues using one pentatonic scale
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Beginning the blues with one pentatonic scale
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