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Make The BLUES Chord Changes When SOLOING!

Jamey Arent

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In this lesson, I'll show you how to make the sound of the blues chord changes come out in your single-note soloing over a 12-bar blues progression using chord tones and moving pentatonic scales!

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Table of Contents
0:00 - Introduction
2:24 - Playing The Roots
5:54 - Solo Emphasizing Roots
6:17 - Playing The 3rds
8:57 - Solo Emphasizing 3rds
9:20 - Playing The 7ths
10:03 - Solo Emphasizing 7ths
11:25 - Voice Leading 3rds and 7ths
13:50 - Solo Voice Leading 3rds and 7ths
14:38 - Combining Major and Minor Pentatonic
18:03 - Solo Combining Major and Minor Pentatonic
19:44 - More Pentatonics
21:27 - V Chord Lick Example
22:23 - Using Mixolydian
23:07 - Emphasizing Each Chord
23:39 - T-Bone Walker/SRV Lick
27:08 - Albert King Hack
30:50 - Conclusion

20 Comments

@HorseDrawnRocket 2 years ago

I always thought the difference between a blues and a jazz player was that the jazz guitarist plays 1000 chords for 3 people, and the blues guitarist plays 3 chords for 1000 people. 😁

@pelimies1818 2 years ago (edited)

Best 10 minutes spent in years.

Watch and learn, people!

@ronb5425 2 years ago

30 years of trying to understand this concept has been never so easily explained. It has been like being in a dark room and now I am standing in full sunlight. Thank you !

@willabestorms6059 2 years ago

I believe I just graduated from Berkeley school of music by watching this complete instructional video. Finally, someone who actually wants to teach… A++

@xraydelta7 2 years ago

After 30 years of struggle I have an answer in 30 seconds

@ChrisVogel-lb2fr 2 years ago

This lesson is like a years worth of study and practice! Amazing. Thanks so much.

@dharris1234 2 years ago

This is one of the best lessons on playing the blues that I’ve seen. I love that you explain “why” things work, rather than “you just have to feel it”. I really like that you show how you can use different positions of familiar major and minor pentatonic patterns to play over the changes! Thank you so much!

@johncharal1698 2 years ago (edited)

Wow, Jamey, that's a blues masterclass in 30 min! I need to spend a full day with this video.

@pennythecat 1 year ago

Everyone stop scrolling for lessons and place this one on a loop and learn all of it—this guy is sharing gold. All very doable. Thanks Jamey.

@MatthewWorthing 2 years ago

Quality teacher !

@felipebarco 2 years ago

This is so rich and so dense that I can’t watch it in a single session!

I’ll have to write a lot of stuff down, practice, revisit this video so many times!

Thank you so much!

@pastorsharpie 2 years ago

Dang! WOW! Yeah, I've basically needed this lesson my whole life! I'll probably watch it about 500 more times!!

@philsherington8458 2 years ago

Thank you Jamey 🙏 this was probably the best blues lesson I've heard.
You are a true educator. Concise, knowledgeable, humble and generous.
I loved the way you were able to talk through what you were doing as you were playing. Without stuffing up any phrases!! 😂

@LL21Kpl 4 months ago

I love these videos that dive right into the work without any waffling or straying off on tangents. Just a mine of information every few minutes. As one person commented, best time spent ever.

@GuitarDeuce 2 years ago

This is where I lack proficiency in my blues solos when improvising … but not for long. Thank you so much Jamey for this very well explained approach to soloing properly with chord changes.

@Rick-f5y5z 6 months ago

❤ your lessons. There's a lot to absorb but the beauty of you tube is we can repeat and pause and the algorithm keeps feeding us your fantastic material

@jamesdeininger3759 11 months ago

I’ve watched hundreds of Blues lead guitar lessons over the past few years, and this is unquestionably the best I’ve come across. I’ve watched this 3 times already, and I’m still learning from it.

@hakionkim 4 months ago

Why is it that a lesson of two years ago was presented to me today? I would not have wasted two years trying to understand what you explained so clearly had the algorithm led me to you earlier. Thank you.

@redpillpusher 2 years ago (edited)

wow for literally the last year or so Ive been looking for a video that would expand my pentatonic blues world and finally here it is. seriously, this is nothing short of a 31mim master class. Ive watched hours of great instructors but none have presented such a focus'd, extensive and most of all useful presentation of the pentatonic scales relation to the 1 4 5. Ive paid for instruction that took longer to listen to but contained not even a third of what this lesson has. ok Im blathering apologies. This is just so great. Thanks is not enough to express my gratitude and you have a new sub. Now gotta get to applying this gold mine if instruction best part is this singular video is now my goto for next how many months 😇