Minor Blues Scale Ebook

Play The Minor Blues Scale In Any Key

Minor Blues Scales Ebook
I you’ve read my article Minor Blues Scale, you should know how to play the minor blues scale box patterns on guitar in the key of E. You should also be aware of the difference between the minor pentatonic scales and the blues guitar scales. Also, you already know about the blue notes, or flat 5th notes.

This free ebook is a handy quick reference guide that shows all the notes and box patterns on guitar fretboard for the minor blues scale in every key including the sharps and flats. It’s not a theory textbook but it will help you to learn the minor blues scales as long as you practice them.

If you need to put together a 12 bar blues riff or solo in a particular key, just click on the button for that key in the ebook and you will see all the notes on the fretboard and all the box patterns, including the ones one octave higher than the root notes and the box patterns below the root notes for the minor blues scale in that key.

This is a Windows based program, sorry Mac users, that should work on any computer that has Windows 95 or above and Internet Explorer 4 or above. Just right click the link below and select save as to download to your computer, unzip and run the file, and follow the instructions to install it on your computer.

 Download Minor Blues Scales Ebook

Major Pentatonic Scale Ebook

This ebook is similar to the Minor Pentatonic Scales Ebook except it shows all the notes and all the boxes for the major pentatonic scales in every key. If you need to put a solo or riff together in a particular key, this ebook will show you the notes and boxes. It shows all five positions, including the ones an octave above and an octave below the root note.

Minor Pentatonic Scale

There are two types of pentatonic scales, major and minor pentatonic. The minor pentatonic scale is the most commonly learnt of the guitar scales, especially by people learning lead guitar or rock guitar and is the one covered in this lesson.

G Minor Pentatonic Scale

If you’ve practiced playing the E Minor pentatonic scale in the previous lesson, you should be starting to get familiar with it. What I’m going to do now is very quickly show you the G Minor pentatonic scale. I’ll show you the tabs and fretboard diagrams for the five positions.

A Minor Pentatonic Scale

If you’ve been practising the E Minor and G Minor pentatonic scales from the previous lessons, you should know them quite well now. I’m not going to show you all the scales, you should be able to work them out for yourself now. What I am going to do is quickly show you the tabs and fretboard diagrams for the A Minor pentatonic scale.

Major Pentatonic Scale

Very simply put, the difference between the major pentatonic and the minor pentatonic scales is three frets. You can take the notes of your minor scale and move it down the fret board three frets towards the head of the guitar and you then have your major scale in the same key.

How To Play Blues Guitar

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already got some idea what blues music is like. You might not be aware, however, how much variety there is and how many different styles there are. It’s not limited to just the original 12-bar blues. You should be listening to different guitar players and hearing the different styles.