Play Modern Blues Now

Explore modern blues fusion by blending multiple styles to create a colorful, practical approach with scales, concepts, and licks you can apply immediately.

Understand the basic foundation of blues by mastering the twelve-bar blues structure, key chord progressions (one four five), and the use of major and minor pentatonic scales for effective soloing.

Explores movable one-four-five chord shapes on guitar, demonstrates blues and jazz color with seventh and ninth chords, and shows practical real-world applications across keys.

Explore moody minor blues with a minor, d minor, and e minor 12-bar progression, add a minor seven for jazz color, and reinforce fundamentals of pitches, scales, and chords.

Master minor and major pentatonic shapes across all five positions to meander along the fretboard. Learn when to use minor pentatonic over major blues progressions and blend both.

Master the blue note across the fretboard by integrating it into minor and major pentatonic shapes, enabling blues soloing in both minor blues and major blues contexts.

Explore intervallic movement in modern blues by navigating the fretboard with pentatonic shapes, alternating horizontal and vertical motion, and experimenting with hybrid and alternate picking along jam tracks.

Learn to add the ninth to a minor pentatonic blues solo, expanding color with the second, use mindful fingering, slides, bends, arpeggios, and meandering melodies across the fretboard.

Solo in the minor pentatonic and weave in the ninth to craft melodic phrases, arpeggios, and bends. Jam along, feel the groove, and expand your phrasing across pentatonic positions.

Learn to use the minor sixth as a sparing passing tone over the one chord in minor blues, then weave in the ninth and pentatonic ideas across a 12-bar groove.

Learn to use the major sixth as a colorful addition to modern blues and blues fusion by substituting it for the minor sixth in pentatonic shapes and exploring ninths.

Explore the moody minor blues by building an A minor, D minor, and E minor progression, then add a minor seven voicing for a jazz-influenced sound.

Learn how to use modern blues color notes sparingly as core tones or passing tones, blending them with other notes, and avoiding clutter for a musical, expressive result.

Merge major and minor pentatonic ideas into a bluesy hybrid scale. Learn to hammer from five to six, shift between third intervals, and phrase over a jam track.

Explore the hybrid scale by combining minor and major pentatonic ideas, apply blues phrasing, add the ninth, and practice shifting between scales during a jam to create modern blues.

Explore applying the hybrid scale by blending minor and major pentatonics, emphasizing the dominant seventh over chords, and navigating chord changes in a blues context, including chromaticism and 12-bar blues.

jam with the dominant pentatonic scale by emphasizing notes and using purposeful licks. maintain rhythm and shift between patterns to give your solo clear direction.

Explore the dominant pentatonic scale by blending minor pentatonic shapes with a major third, and shift patterns up and down the fret for a bluesier sound.

Shape modern blues phrases by combining major and minor pentatonic ideas into a three-note-per-string pattern, using hammer-ons, pull-offs, and meandering moves for fluent, dynamic fretboard flow.

Master relative and parallel key soloing by using A as the anchor and exploring B minor pentatonic and E minor pentatonic over A, with ninths, sixths, and chromatic color.

Explore altered dominant scale over the five chord in a 12-bar blues. See how e sharp nine chord relates to the scale and visualize the chord shape for practical use.

Learn to apply the altered dominant (ultra dominant) scale over the five chord in a 12-bar blues, using two-note-per-string shapes, pentatonic connections, and practical note choices around an E7#9 chord.

Create a jazz blues lick by applying ultra dominant and altered dominant ideas over the five chord in a 12-bar blues, with chromatic elements and minor pentatonic shapes.

Explore half hole diminished scale and how it compares to ultra dominant to spice up the five chord with practical, easy shapes and licks, emphasizing visualization over memorization.

Explore chromaticism in modern blues, blending pattern shapes and pentatonic ideas across the fretboard to improve soloing and salesmanship through expressive phrasing.

Explore the root replacement concept by substituting the major seventh for the root in a minor pentatonic blues phrase, adding chromatics and a resolve for a jazzy, colorful sound.

Master dominant seventh arpeggios as skeletal, bluesy broken chords, using hammer-ons, pull-offs, and alternate picking to create fluid blues lines.

Explore the diminished arpeggio in blues, using chromatic notes to create a distinct diminished sound, with patterns across strings, hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, and varied picking.

Develop musical phrasing through dynamic contrast, varied rhythm, and expressive guitar techniques by integrating scales, arpeggios, vocalized playing, vibrato, bending, and open-string ideas.