Which scales to use in blues?
It's one of the most common questions that gets asked in blues lessons: Which scales to use when playing blues? Firstly, the answer will depend upon on the chord progression we are playing over, and even though blues is a fairly narrow genre, the fact is that there are still various different blues chord progressions out there, and even if we focus on just the regular 12 bar blues, there's still the option to play different scales over the different chords in the progression: | A7 | A7 | A7 | A7 | | D7 | D7 | A7 | A7 | | E7 | D7 | A7 | E7 | So let's just think about what scales we can play over just a static A7 chord playing a blues vamp and see what possibilities we have. Scales A minor Pentatonic This is the obvious place to start, and where almost all of us start. The guitarists favourite scale! Notes : A C D ...
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