Part 2 of a deep dive into using scales when you're jamming along with tracks at home (or with real people out of home!)
In Part 2, we're going to look in detail at improvising slide guitar using the sound of the natural minor and mixolydian scales, PLUS bonus tips on using pentatonics, transcribing vocabulary, using other musical elements beyond the notes you play, practising tips and more.
Blues soloing is not just about learning scales!
While you need to have that knowledge, that’s just the beginning.
In this video, we’ll explore three fundamental concepts that will help you take your blues soloing to the next level: (1) using major and minor pentatonic, (2) chord tones , and (3) call and response.
I’m in Open E tuning, and playing slide guitar, but all three of these concepts apply to conventional guitar playing (or playing slide guitar in any other tuning).
If you're stuck with just playing pentatonic scales when soloing on slide guitar, this lesson is for you :-)
Without learning any new scales, we'll learn how you can add to what you already know and give your soloing a lot more authority.
The SECRET is to learn to use chord tones to outline the chord progression you're playing over.
In this lesson we're going to dive into the world of motivic development - using composition ideas to create limitless variations on ideas that you already know, and with practice you'll be able to do this in the spur of the moment.
I'm demonstrating these concepts playing slide guitar in Open C, but they apply to - any guitar tuning, any style of guitar and in fact any instrument...
In this lesson we'll explore THREE fundamental rhythmic concepts that will transform your soloing, AND allow for more interaction with the other musicians you play with (which means better music and more fun!)
We'll look at: (1) leaving space, (2) creating rhythmic interest with constant/broken rhythm and rhythmic variety, (3) starting and ending phrases (4) a bonus tip...