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Top Secret Blues Guitar Tricks, Revealed! SRV, Robben Ford Style Lesson
🕑 Added 2017-01-19 18:27:22 +0000 UTC Hello friends,Thanks to popular demand (and a plumbing emergency in my studio), I took time today to create a study guide to go along with my popular "Top Secret Blues Tricks" tutorial. In this lesson I've broken down some of my favorite lead and rhythm techniques to enhance a 12 bar blues. These are tricks that I’ve acquired through countless jam sessions, and endless hours of studying players like Robben Ford, SRV, Brownie McGhee, and Lightnin' Hopkins. Let’s get started!
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After watching a lot of Rob's videos, this one seems to me to be one of his most natural teaching styles with some personal input. It's fun looking back 5 years ago (from 2020) to see the teaching styles change, with a balance between instruction and inspiration.
Makes sense, thanks!
Oh, great question! These notes are being drawn from two scales for extra flavor: the E blues scale and also the E major scale. This is possible because we are in a major key. So remember this, minor and major scales sound great over major chord progressions, especially when the chords are dom7ths. If this was a minor progression, we would not be throwing in the major scale. Any questions?
Thanks Rob! Struggling with the theory behind turnarounds... E, G, A, A#, B, etc. are all in the E blues scale, but what's happening when we're hearing G# and C# in the turnaround? I realize they're in the shuffle as well -- are we just hitting chord notes there and not worrying about scales?
