The blues lessons focus on the blues scale as I recall. Anders, as I recall, only focused on and used the one shape we all start with. That was what blew me away at first. Here I thought I was hot stuff knowing all of the scale shapes of the blues pent scale, but Anders showed how much could be done with so little in that one single position. He will show you how SO much super cool stuff can be done with so little. He's a monster though...dude has chops too!

I remember it getting to the styles of the different blues players...the 3 kings Albert, BB, and Freddie. Some of it was a bit far out for me and wasn't quite what I envisioned myself doing, so I skimmed over it.

For blues and blues based rock improvisation, the blues course is where it's at. Anders talks about phrasing and how to take a lick, even a simple one, and make it your own and vary it. I learned a TON from him and have gotten lots of mileage from it.

You need to know the basics of the major scale. This will allow you to move chord shapes and scale shapes around to play in different keys. For instance, if you have a barre G chord on the thrid fret, know that if you move it up to the 5th fret, it's now an A chord. With a scale, if you take the first position minor pentatonic and start on the 5th fret, that's in the key of Am. Move it back a couple of frets starting on the 3rd fret, now you are in the key of Gm.

That basic knowlege will give you freedom to move things around and not get locked into specifc keys or positions on the fretboard. Personally, I found the idea of triads and chord inversions to be very powerful. It opened up a lot of things for me.

Chord progressions and keys and how to put them all together...you could study the circle of 5ths and stacking thrids of a scale to make the chords, etc. OR, you can learn songs that you like, that appeal to your ear, and dissect them to determine what makes them work. For instance, the chord change of Em to A sounds really cool to me when played slowly and gently. I believe it's from a Pink Floyd song...which one escapes me at the moment. I could study the chords and try to understand what makes that work and what it is about the sound that I like so much. That could be used for my own stuff.