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Blues Soloing

With Martin Miller, Jody Mac, Chris Feener and 1 more

Get more out of the blues. Add color to your licks, learn Robben Ford style phrasing, then push it further with some serious blues abuse.

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5 Tutorials

  1. 1 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 8m Spicing up the Blues Nick Granville Hi everyone! In this lesson, I'm going to show you a basic way to slide 9th chords to create colour when playing the blues. I use this sound often as it is very colourful, yet also very simple and powerful...
  2. 2 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 4m Adding Interest to the Blues Jody Mac Lick 1 The first example uses a chromatic run and legato. Use it to break out of the traditional blues box. The chromatic notes add interest and stretch the listener. The tempo is quite fast, so practice it...
  3. 3 Tutorial · 4 lessons · 4m Blues Rock Etude Martin Miller Hey IG! This is the first installment of a three-part series on the good ol’ Blues. We’re going to take three steps, so each of the three tutorials will deal with a different type of blues, increasing in...
  4. 4 Tutorial · 2 lessons · 2m Robben Ford Style Blues Martin Miller Hey IG, We’re here with the second installment of my little blues series. This time we’re dealing with a more sophisticated Robben Ford/Larry Carlton type blues. The phrases in this will be more advanced...
  5. 5 Tutorial · 5 lessons · 4m Abusing The Blues Chris Feener Welcome back IGers! This month, I wanted to break down and analyze a few of my "go-to" licks within the blues scale. But before we do, let's expand our harmonic spectrum of the blues scale, to spice things up...

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