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From the Secret Guitar Teacher site: http://secretguitarteacher.com/youtube/intermediate/electric/AToibIUfmkw/83670528-the-secret-to-lead-guitar.php
Blues scale in 5 positions
When I was 15 years old one of my brothers’ friends was playing some cool blues riffs on his guitar and I asked him — how do you do that?
He tore an empty cigarette packet down one side, opened it out and, grabbing a ballpoint pen, he Scrawled down five grid patterns with little circles on them and handed it to me.
Learn those! Was all he said.
At the time I had a feeling like I had just been initiated into the Inner circle of Lead Guitar Players.
Now, nearly 40 years on, I know that that feeling was accurate. My lead guitar playing really took off from that point on!
Since then I have made it part of my life’s mission to pass on that initiation!
But you’re lucky – Look I’ve even written out the diagrams neatly for you!
Let’s go through them one at a time.
We’re learning a system that will enable us to play in any key, but for the sake of keeping things simple to start with we are going to learn all five positions in the key of E.
OK so those are the 5 positions of the Blues scale in E. Learn those really thoroughly and start using them as a warm-up exercise.
If you want to really develop fast as a lead guitarist then check out the Secret Guitar Teacher’s Gym Pentatonic Scale Drill — the pentatonic patterns are only one note different so you will soon figure out how to apply the same principle to the blues scale.
OK See you in the next lesson
Jake
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Now i can kill sum time.
Looks good to me so just started to play a little lead hope this will help me ?
I d like to hear you actually PLAY some music !
I love these lessons. Amazing and thank you.
Thank you .
Why are you only playing the flat 5 in one place? If it's part of the scale, shouldn't it be played every time it comes up like all the other notes of the scale? Misleading…
Thanks for this. God bless bro
Thanks for these scales I will add them to my repertory .
Great lesson. Thanks….My first, but not last, visit.
Thank you very much !
AWESOME INSTRUCTOR !!!
Great information for you to share! Thank you very much.
Quick note: If you learn these 5 positions, then you can utilize them in the relative major as well. For instance, if you know the blues scale in Em, it will be the same for the relative G major scale. That way you can play major or minor all up and down the neck.
I've read some of these comments and I am reminded of the old maxim…"opinions are like, well, you know…everyone's got one." Thank you for a very interesting and useful lesson. There are endless variations on everything and this is one. I enjoyed it and will add it to the bag. Everybody is a freakin expert and/or critic…what's that other old saying? "if y'all can't say something nice, shut your dang mouth" …. or something like that.
hey i believe you're tuned down 1/2 step and it didnt appear anyone in the comments had told you and it wasn't clearly written in all caps in the description so i thought i should let you know.