Posted on 06 October 2008
About a month ago, I posted a lesson on how to play pentatonic scales. As you learned in that post, this scale is called “pentatonic” because it has 5 notes. “Penta” is an ancient Greek prefix meaning “five.”
We unraveled the numerical names for other scales too. Like… [more]
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Tags: blues scale, heptatonic, hexatonic, major pentatonic, minor pentatonic, minor pentatonic scale, octatonic, pentatonic scale
Posted on 02 September 2008
When I was a kid, one of the first things I learned how to do was play bass lines. Blues bass lines, in fact. You know those ones you’d hear Ray Charles rumbling on his left hand. Heck, those bass lines were what gave me the confidence to keep going because I could actually play something that sounded like something… hehe…
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Posted on 12 August 2008
In this post, I’m going to break down the main movements in James Wrubel’s “12 Bar Blues” video lesson. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to play blues, now’s your chance!
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