Recommend me some blues

[micha]

Wow, lots of information, thank you very much!
I gotta leave for new year's eve now, but I'll try that out tomorrow as soon as I can look straightforward again.
Have a good New Year everyone!

[Cliff]

Hey Sandman - what the notes be for the major blues scale in E? When you talk about mixing licks, would you be switching from this scale to E minor pentatonic?
Thanks!

[Mr Sandman]

Hey Sandman - what the notes be for the major blues scale in E? When you talk about mixing licks, would you be switching from this scale to E minor pentatonic?
Thanks!

^ (E major blues is E, C#, B, G#, F#) or get your E minor petanonic box from the 12th fret and slide in down to the C# position and play the same pattern but start on the E and finish on the E... and once again you can bend this shit outta all those notes to whatever effect you want to create with it...

You can do this stuff in so many different positions though with your magic box or the MOJO box hahaha. That pentatonic shape.

If you`re doing I, IV, V in E then ask youself.
Where is the E pentatonic minor scale?
Where is the E pentatonic major scale?
Where is the A pentatonic minor scale?
Where is the A pentatonic major scale?
Where is the B pentatonic minor scale?
Where is the B pentatonic major scale?

And ask yourself where is your E, A, B notes in those box patterns?

For some reason I find that the I is closer to the V than it is to IV?

Also, Stuff like hit the low E note, then play a C#minor7 chord (leaving out the high C# note) on the 9th fret postion and then hammer onto an F#minor chord (leaving out the low F# note) and that`s an extension of a major blues chord (and in this case you in E) that guys like Ronnie and Keef used to do all the time.
...and of course this sort of stuff repeats itself all over the guitar.


...and yeah mix it up. Try the Memphis call and response thing with it. Play a lick it major then answer it with a lick in minor... etc, mix it up and try different stuff.


Here`s a cool major blues melody... This ones in the Key of F

[Jayster]

I thought I could listen to some blues again, maybe get a few nice new licks, improve my pentatonic skills...
Anything I should check out?
so recommendations into that direction would be appreciated!

Yup, you've mispelled METAL, no worries bro.. That's what I'm here for

[Hellbat]

Or Live At The El Mocambo dvd.

I'll second this. It was a crazy good performance even with Stevie looking fairly strung out (I'm pretty sure this gig was in his cocaine fueled days.) he just wrings so much from his guitar it's crazy.

[micha]

Thanks a lot Sandman. I'll give it a try.
I never really thought much about mixing scales like you suggested, but maybe that's part of the problem why my blues is kind of boring.
Thanks again!

Yup, you've mispelled METAL, no worries bro.. That's what I'm here for

Oh did I? Did I spell it with an extra "l" again somewhere? To my defence, that's just the way it's spelled over here, I mix it up once in a while.
But despite that, I have no clue what you're about, but it seems like you misspelled misspelled anyway...
In all seriousness, what's your point?
You think I should stick to metal? I'm sure it can't hurt to have a look at other things once in a while.

[Endrik]

That's why I'd listen to real blues... this 12 bar and pentatonic box cliché was cemented by many rock and modern blues players... before that there were no certain "rules"... everything was fair game as long as it spoke the language

[brentmann]

Heres some blues you can use!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZqhCYO2s6s

[tonemonster]

you still cant play the blues properly until someone done you wrong. those scales will all come out wrong unless someone done you wrong.

[Trussrod]

Heres some blues you can use!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZqhCYO2s6s

Amazing player! Great taste and technique.

[len]

Rory Gallagher.

all day long!!!

[Robert Hendrix]

you still cant play the blues properly until someone done you wrong. those scales will all come out wrong unless someone done you wrong.

+1
The blues ain't nuttin but good man feelin' bad. - Willie Brown

[toejam]

all day long!!!

Hell yeah!

[The Rossness]

[Robert Burns]

Anything by Johnny Winter ! "Live" albums especially