Blues - advanced improvisation concepts
Instructor: Hanspeter Kruesi
Added: September 18th 2008
Lesson Info
Difficulty:
Focus: Style Tutorial
Style:
Key: D
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This is a lesson about advanced improvisation concepts on blues. It shows how you can play 3 different scales on any 12 bar or other blues.
The blues I use here has the following chord progression :
D / D / D / D
G / G / D / D
A / G / D / D
The scales which can be used are :
D minor pentatonic
D blues scale
D, G and A mixolydian scale.
You can play the following scales on the following chords :
D : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, D mixolydian scale
G : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, G mixolydian scale
A : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, A mixolydian scale
I have a whole bundle of licks which might give you some additional inspiration. Each lick is marked as pentatonic or mixolydian lick in the description. When you transpose a pentatonic lick you have to transpose it to the key of the blues you are playing. When you transpose a mixolydian lick you have to transpose it to the chord you want to improvise.
Blues Licks I
Blues Licks II
