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Guitar Techniques
|November 2023
Is your blues playing giving you the blues? Fear not, as Andy Saphir is here with the ultimate workout, designed to build your chops and invigorate your practice routine.
Blues is one of those styles that most guitarists love to play. There’s just something about the sound of those Pentatonic-based licks and riffs, and the immediately identifiable musical structures and rhythms that make it so satisfying.
As a player with relatively little experience you can soon learn to play some simple but authentic sounding blues because, at its essence, the style is mainly based around the Minor Pentatonic scale (R- b3-4-5-b7) with additional notes borrowed from the Major Pentatonic too (R-2-3-5-6) which can be used to construct some basic but authentic sounding licks.
This story is from the November 2023 edition of Guitar Techniques.
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