First Steps in Blues Improvisation using Minor Pentatonic Scale Pattern 1

Or throw on an acoustic blues backing track from YouTube if you have a decent speaker system.

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@mfeeney0110 THereā€™s always these lessons too

And this section of the AVOYP

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I would be all in on ā€œSolo Blues Guitarā€ if the songs were traditional blues songs, instead of Justinā€™s compositions. No knock on Justinā€™s composing abilities, but itā€™s just more motivating if you are learning well-known songs. I suppose there might be copyright issues involved, but I would think that there of lots of blues standards in the public domain.

Maybe a follow-up course could teach such songs.

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Hi Richard ā€¦ is there an change I can get this backing track as a mp3 please ?:blush:

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The tracks that are made by justinguitar on soundcloud often have a download file button that you can use once you create a free account on soundcloud.

This backing track gave me the file 03 Track 03.mp3

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But you need to grow an extra finger to play that one from soundcloud :wink:

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Hi,
Bit late to this thread but finding it very useful as I am trying to progress my learning of basic blues.
Lots of great advice from Richard and others in these pages/ comments and your link to this old Justin very helpful - thanks.
Just wondering if you know if the improvisation that Justin played is available in tab format anywhere please?
If not then no worries as I will watch again - and again - and work it outšŸ˜Š
Thanks

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Hi Huw, welcome to the Community.
Iā€™m glad this topic is proving useful to you.

It was an improv and Justin definitely wonā€™t have transcribed a tab for it. If youā€™re up for the challenge, you could try yourself. :slight_smile:

Hi Huw and welcome to this community and I can read Richards advice if you need help in doing this just ask and I will help you if you find it to difficult cheers Hec

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Hi Both. Thanks for quick responses and advice.
As suggested, I will give this a go myself - good practice.
Finding all the blues tips/ guidance/lessons etc very useful as I try to focus in on this ahead of thinking about any immersion in the future!
Cheers

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What does this mean by ā€˜in different keysā€™? Is this just playing the same licks but on fret 3 (for G) and fret 10 (for D)?

So for the first lick it would be frets 3 and 6 for G and 10 and 13 for D? Is that right?

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So whatever the Key the piece is, that will be the same Root note of the Pentatonic scale that your riff is based on for the most part.

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Spot on Stuart. The scale is movable as are the licks. Be guided by the fret position of the root note.

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Coming right back to this from the start

Iā€™d ā€™learntā€™ it before but actually I hadnā€™t. I simply learnt enough to memorise going down shape 1 and back up then sliding to shape 2 and doing the same, and so on and so on. So I ā€˜knowā€™ all 5 shapes but really I donā€™t know how to use them and interact correctly. Didnā€™t know all the root positions or any licks etc

So Iā€™m going back to shape 1 and just going to focus there, learn the actual note positions and know it inside out before I move on

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