Blues Guitar Lesson: The Blues Scale

All right, this is John with learning guitar now and this a little video, I’m going to show a little bit of playing E blues scale in using the open strings and also I’m tuned down to E flat, so a lot of your favorite guitar players probably tuned down E flat. So all you have to do is tune each string down half a step, if you have standard tuning, your big string E tune it to E flat, you have A flat, D flat, G flat, B flat, and E flat. So E flat tuning is really cool sounds like a lot heavier [Demonstration] than your standard tuning, so that’s the tuning I’m using Stevie Ray Vaughan, you know Slash from Guns and Roses, Jimi Hendrix a lot of different people use the tuned down tuning from a standard. So you take blues scale on E, looks like this. [Demonstration] That’s the Blue scale using open strings. [Demonstration] So from that little scale, you have tons of cool licks. [Demonstration] You just want to get good and doing that scale up and down. [Demonstration] So that’s the scale where you snare. [Demonstration] Alright cool licks that you’ll hear. [Demonstration] This is all E. [Demonstration] I used to have a couple of different notes and you can do these cool Stevie Ray wild licks, 2nd fret right here. [Demonstration] And in the 1st fret you got [Demonstration] that’s a major, 3rd first fret on the G string. [Demonstration] And you slide up there. [Demonstration] You're using that 2nd position of the minor pentatonic scale, which 3rd fret, 5th fret. [Demonstration] So you got— [Demonstration] So that’s the all in the blues, blue scale and then add a couple of notes to you’re blues scales, so got [Demonstration] and you can add the 1st with the major 3rd [Demonstration]. You’ll hear that times in that blues licks, so another one looks like this [Demonstration]. Open [Demonstration], I’ve got tons of blues storage right here. So you just kind of take that scale. [Demonstration] It's just getting good at going up and down that scale and try to make riffs and melodies out of it. [Demonstration] So all that comes from that blues scale and the pentatonic scale and then add a couple of notes that you can even take the 1st fret and have that note to the scale. We have the [Demonstration] where you just pick really hard on these notes [Demonstration] add that— [Demonstration] So okay, that’s E flat all over an E chord, and we have that 1st fret major 3rd. [Demonstration] You’ve add an octave up— [Demonstration] That’s the blues scale 010— [Demonstration] So you have this little thing [Demonstration], mix with 1st riff. You know, you hear these kind of licks, come and play it on pride and joy any type roadhouse type of blues going in— [Demonstration] So the blues scale with open position it's just a tremendous amount of our cool licks you can do. Some other ones are Stevie Ray and other roadhouse kind of blues sounds you want to get. So check out that scale and learn it. [Demonstration] You just want to practice it, you can make backing tracks that you can practice using that scale. And also, tune your guitar down and just feel, it's a lot different and the vibratos is a lot easier. [Demonstration] If you want to sound like Stevie Ray and Jimi Hendrix, you have to tune your guitar down and it will sound way more like it. Just practice, it's easier to bend [Demonstration] and vibrato [Demonstration]. Okay that is it for this video.