The third variation of the blues guitar scale might be a little intimidating at first, as it spans six frets. However, if you take a look at each line, the only real tricky part is the first string (the thinnest one). It's five different notes, so you'll have to move your hand up at least one time.
For a more comprehensive list, check out the Blues Guitar Scales Master List.
Here's the diagram.
Speed won't mix well with this scale at first, unless you've established a fair amount of quickness on the fretboard already. For a little help you can consult this article on increasing dexterity. Otherwise, just take it one line at a time, and as slow as you can tolerate. If you're getting buzzing notes, you're going too fast.
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4 comments:
Wow You have given me the keys to my guitar lessons. No stop signs or speed limits. The things you reveal Wow!!!! thanks
for the info it is really useful :) as I'm not sure what strings I should be hitting when playing.
I was wondering what it means to Play in a key of " A" or "E" etc. Thanks lots.
Hey Claude. Thanks for the comment. Playing in the key of "A" or "E" simply means you're playing anything that works with a bass note or chord of "A" or "E".
For example, if another guy is playing an E chord and you're playing some sort of lead piece to go along with it, you're playing in the key of E.
It's kind of hard to explain, but that's the basic idea. The scale given is in the key of "C" because the root notes are C notes. You can sort of tell by ending on that note, because it sounds like the scale is "completed".
Anyways, I hope that helps! Thanks again for the question!
Can you show me how to play a A5 C5 G5 CHORDS for a song called one day at a time by Jeremy camp and also for the guitartab for a song of the Doobie Brothers,Steamer Lane Breakdown to use practise in my guitar lessons...
Please have a look at:
http://www.guitarists.net/guitar_lessons/view.php?id=91
and help me....
Claude, thanks again for the commentary. Perhaps the best way to address this would be in the forum. I just posted one, but here's the URL...
http://guitarchalk.freeforums.net/index.cgi
Go there and post this question under the "Questions" category, and we can discuss there.
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